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NOTE 4. RECENTLY ISSUED ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS
9 Months Ended
Jan. 31, 2015
New Accounting Pronouncements and Changes in Accounting Principles [Abstract]  
NOTE 4. RECENTLY ISSUED ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS

NOTE 4. RECENTLY ISSUED ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS

 

From time to time, new accounting pronouncements are issued by the FASB or other standard setting bodies that are adopted by the Company as of the specified effective date. Unless otherwise discussed, we believe that the impact of recently issued standards that are not yet effective will not have a material impact on our financial position or results of operations upon adoption.

 

Except for rules and interpretive releases of the SEC under authority of federal securities laws and a limited number of grandfathered standards, the FASB Accounting Standards Codification™ (“ASC”) is the sole source of authoritative GAAP literature recognized by the FASB and applicable to the Company. Management has reviewed the aforementioned rules and releases and believes any effect will not have a material impact on the Company's present or future financial statements.

 

In February 2015, FASB issued Accounting Standards Update (ASU) No. 2015-02, Consolidation (Topic 810). The amendments in this update are effective for fiscal years and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2015. The amendments in this update simplify the codification and reduce the number of consolidation models by eliminating the indefinite deferral of Statement 167 and placing more emphasis on the risk of loss when determining controlling financial interests. Early adoption is permitted, but not required. As the objective of this standard is to reduce cost and complexity and alleviate uncertainty while maintaining or improving the usefulness of information provided to the users of financials statements, the adoption of this standard is not expected to impact our financial position or results of operations.

 

In January 2015, FASB issued Accounting Standards Update (ASU) No. 2015-01, Income Statement-Extraordinary and Unusual Items (Subtopic 225-20). This update eliminates from GAAP the concept of extraordinary items. The amendments in this update are effective for fiscal years and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2015. The amendment may be applied both prospectively and retrospectively. Early adoption is permitted, but not required; as long as the standard is applied from the beginning of the fiscal year of adoption. As the objective of this standard is to reduce cost and complexity and alleviate uncertainty while maintaining or improving the usefulness of information provided to the users of financials statements, the adoption of this standard is not expected to impact our financial position or results of operations.

 

In August 2014, FASB issued Accounting Standards Update (ASU) No. 2014-15, Presentation of Financial Statements – Going Concern; Disclosures of Uncertainties about an Entity’s Ability to Continue as a Going Concern. The amendments in this update provide guidance in GAAP about management’s responsibility to evaluate whether there is substantial doubt about an entity’s ability to continue as a going concern and to provide related footnote disclosures. In doing so, the amendments should reduce diversity in the timing and content of footnote disclosures. The guidance is effective for the annual period ending after December 15, 2016, and for annual periods and interim periods thereafter. Early adoption is permitted but not required. As the objective of this accounting standard is to provide guidance on the disclosure of uncertainties about an entity’s ability to continue as a going concern, the adoption of this standard is not expected to impact our financial position or results of operations.

 

In June 2014, the FASB issued ASU 2014-10, Development Stage Entities (Topic 915): Elimination of Certain Financial Reporting Requirements, Including an Amendment to Variable Interest Entities Guidance in Topic 810, Consolidation. The amendments in this update remove all incremental financial reporting requirements from U.S. GAAP for development stage entities and also eliminate an exception provided to development stage entities in Topic 810, Consolidation, for determining whether an entity is a variable interest entity on the basis of the amount of investment equity that is at risk. These amendments are effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2014, and interim periods therein, with early application permitted. We early adopted this ASU in July 2014. As the objective of the amendments in this update is to improve financial reporting by reducing the cost and complexity associated with the incremental reporting requirements for development stage entities our early adoption of this guidance has not impacted our financial position or results of operations.

 

In February 2013, the FASB issued ASU 2013-02, Comprehensive Income (Topic 220): Reporting of Amounts Reclassified out of Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income. This newly issued accounting standard requires an entity to present either in a single note or parenthetically on the face of the financial statements; the effect of significant amounts reclassified from each component of accumulated other comprehensive income based on its source. If a component is not required to be reclassified to net income in its entirety, it is cross-referenced to the related footnote for additional information. This ASU was effective for reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2012. As the objective of this accounting standard is to improve the reporting of classifications out of accumulated other comprehensive income and the information is already required to be disclosed elsewhere in the financial statements the adoption of this standard did not impact our financial position or results of operations.