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Recently Adopted Accounting Guidance
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2011
Recently Adopted Accounting Guidance  
Recently Adopted Accounting Guidance

NOTE 2 - Accounting Guidance

Recently Adopted Accounting Guidance

 

 

Allowance for Credit Losses

In July 2010, the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") issued Accounting Standards Update ("Update") No. 2010-20, "Receivables (Topic 310): Disclosures About the Credit Quality of Financing Receivables and the Allowance for Credit Losses," which requires significant new disclosures about the allowance for credit losses and the credit quality of financing receivables. The requirements are intended to enhance transparency regarding credit losses and the credit quality of loan and lease receivables. Under this guidance, allowance for credit losses and fair value are to be disclosed by portfolio segment, while credit quality information, impaired financing receivables, and nonaccrual status are to be presented by class of financing receivable. Disclosure of the nature and extent, the financial impact, and segment information of troubled debt restructurings are required. The disclosures are to be presented at the level of disaggregation that management uses when assessing and monitoring the portfolio's risk and performance. This guidance is effective for interim and annual reporting periods ending on or after December 15, 2010 (December 31, 2010 for our company). In January 2011, the FASB issued Update 2011-01, Receivables (Topic 310): Deferral of the Effective Date of Disclosures About Troubled Debt Restructurings in Update No. 2010-20," which temporarily delayed the effective date of the disclosures about troubled debt restructurings until interim and annual reporting periods beginning on or after June 15, 2011 (July 1, 2011 for our company). Other than requiring additional disclosures, the adoption of this new guidance did not have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements. See Note 8 - Bank Loans.

 

 

Fair Value of Financial Instruments

In January 2010, the FASB issued Update No. 2010-06, "Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures (Topic 820): Improving Disclosures about Fair Value Measurements," which amends the disclosure requirements related to recurring and nonrecurring fair value measurements. The guidance requires new disclosures on the transfers of assets and liabilities between Level 1 (quoted prices in active market for identical assets or liabilities) and Level 2 (significant other observable inputs) of the fair value measurement hierarchy, including the reasons and the timing of the transfers. Additionally, the guidance requires a rollforward of activities on purchases, sales, issuance, and settlements of the assets and liabilities measured using significant unobservable inputs (Level 3 fair value measurements). The guidance for the disclosure on the rollforward activities for Level 3 fair value measurements became effective for us with the reporting period beginning January 1, 2011. Other than requiring additional disclosures, the adoption of this new guidance did not have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements. See Note 5 - Fair Value of Financial Instruments.

 

Recently Issued Accounting Guidance