Recent Accounting Standards (Notes)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2011

New Accounting Pronouncements and Changes in Accounting Principles [Abstract]

Recent Accounting Standards

Recent Accounting Standards

Goodwill

In September 2011, the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") issued amended guidance for performing goodwill impairment tests as it relates to performing the two-step goodwill impairment test. Under the amended guidance, an entity is permitted to first assess qualitative factors in determining whether the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying value. We adopted the amended guidance for our 2011 annual impairment test, which was performed as of October 1, 2011. The adoption of the amended guidance did not have a significant impact on our Consolidated Financial Statements.

In December 2010, the FASB issued amended guidance for performing goodwill impairment tests, which was effective for us January 1, 2011. The amended guidance requires reporting units with zero or negative carrying amounts to be assessed to determine if it is "more likely than not" that goodwill impairment exists. As part of this assessment, entities should consider all qualitative factors that could impact the carrying value. The adoption of this amended guidance did not have a significant impact on our Consolidated Financial Statements.

Multiemployer Pension Plans

In September 2011, the FASB issued amended guidance to enhance disclosure requirements related to an employer's participation in multiemployer pension plans, which was effective for our fiscal year ended December 31, 2011. The amended guidance requires additional quantitative and qualitative disclosures for entities with significant pension plans that multiple employers may contribute to. The adoption of this amended guidance did not have a material impact on our Consolidated Financial Statements.

Comprehensive Income

In June 2011, the FASB issued amended guidance for presenting comprehensive income. The amended guidance eliminates the option to present other comprehensive income and its components in the statement of stockholders' equity. We may elect to present the items of net income and other comprehensive income in a single continuous statement of comprehensive income or in two separate, but consecutive, statements. Under either method the statement would need to be presented with equal prominence as the other primary financial statements. In December 2011, the FASB further amended guidance for presenting comprehensive income by indefinitely deferring the requirement to present reclassification adjustments out of accumulated other comprehensive income by component in both the income statement and statement in which other comprehensive income is presented. Both amendments will be effective for us beginning January 1, 2012. We will present net income and other comprehensive income in two separate, but consecutive, statements of net income and other comprehensive income beginning in the first quarter of 2012 and will apply this change retrospectively. As this standard relates only to the presentation of other comprehensive income, the adoption of this accounting standard will not have an impact on our Consolidated Financial Statements.

Fair Value Measurements

In May 2011, the FASB issued amended guidance for measuring fair value and required disclosure information about such measures, which will be effective for us beginning January 1, 2012, and applied prospectively. The amended guidance requires an entity to disclose all transfers between Level 1 and Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy, as well as provide quantitative and qualitative disclosures related to Level 3 fair value measurements. Additionally, the amended guidance requires an entity to disclose the fair value hierarchy level which was used to determine the fair value of financial instruments that are not measured at fair value, but for which fair value information must be disclosed. We do not expect the adoption of the amended guidance to have a significant impact on our Consolidated Financial Statements.

In January 2010, the FASB issued amended guidance to enhance disclosure requirements related to fair value measurements. The amended guidance for Level 1 and Level 2 fair value measurements was effective for us January 1, 2010. The amended guidance for Level 3 fair value measurements was effective for us January 1, 2011. The guidance requires disclosures of amounts and reasons for transfers in and out of Level 1 and Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy as well as additional information related to activities in the reconciliation of Level 3 fair value measurements. The guidance expanded the disclosures related to the level of disaggregation of assets and liabilities and information about inputs and valuation techniques. The adoption of this amended guidance did not have a significant impact on our Consolidated Financial Statements.

Revenue Recognition

In March 2010, the Emerging Issues Task Force (“EITF”) reached a consensus related to guidance when applying the milestone method of revenue recognition. The consensus was issued by the FASB as an update to authoritative guidance for revenue recognition and was effective for us January 1, 2011. The amended guidance provides criteria for identifying those deliverables in an arrangement that meet the definition of a milestone. In addition, the amended guidance includes enhanced quantitative and qualitative disclosures about the arrangements when an entity recognizes revenue using the milestone method. The adoption of this amended guidance did not have a significant impact on our Consolidated Financial Statements.

In September 2009, the EITF reached a consensus related to revenue arrangements with multiple deliverables. The consensus was issued by the FASB as an update to authoritative guidance for revenue recognition and was effective for us January 1, 2011. The updated guidance revises how the estimated selling price of each deliverable in a multiple element arrangement is determined when the deliverables do not have stand-alone value. In addition, the guidance requires additional disclosures about the methods and assumptions used to evaluate multiple element arrangements and to identify the significant deliverables within those arrangements. The amended guidance did not have a significant impact on our Consolidated Financial Statements.