RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2012

RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS [Abstract]

RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS

3. RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS

FASB ASU 2011-05, "Comprehensive Income (Topic 220) - Presentation of Comprehensive Income"

This ASU increases the prominence of other comprehensive income ("OCI") in financial statements and provides two options for presenting OCI. The ASU eliminates the current placement near the statement of shareholders' equity or detailed in the Consolidated Statement of Changes in Shareholders' Equity. The ASU provides for an OCI statement to be included with the net income statement, and together the two will make a statement of total comprehensive income. Alternatively, businesses can have an OCI statement separate from a net income statement, but the two statements will have to appear consecutively within a financial report. The ASU does not affect the calculation of OCI. The ASU is effective for the first interim or annual period beginning on or after December 15, 2011. The adoption of ASU 2011-05 did not have a material impact on the Company's financial condition or results of operations.

FASB ASU 2011-04, "Fair Value Measurement (Topic 820) -Amendments to Achieve Common Fair Value Measurement and Disclosure Requirements in U.S. GAAP and IFRSs"

This ASU amends the wording used to describe many of the requirements in GAAP for measuring fair value and for disclosing information about fair value measurements. The ASU clarifies the application of existing fair value measurement requirements and changes the principles or requirements for measuring fair value or for disclosing information about fair value measurements. The ASU will require new disclosures for any transfers between Levels 1 and 2 of the fair value hierarchy, not just significant transfers, and further expands focus on Level 3 measurements, including quantitative information about the significant unobservable inputs used for all Level 3 measurements, a qualitative discussion about the sensitivity of recurring Level 3 measurements to changes in the unobservable inputs disclosed, and a description of the valuation processes. The ASU is effective for reporting periods beginning on or after December 15, 2011. The adoption of ASU 2011-04 did not have a material impact on the Company's financial condition or results of operations.

FASB ASU 2011-03, "Transfer and Servicing (Topic 860) -Reconsideration of Effective Control of Repurchase Agreements"

This ASU improves the accounting for repurchase agreements and other agreements that entitle and obligate a transferor to repurchase or redeem financial assets before their maturity. The ASU removes from the assessment of effective control: (1) the criterion requiring the transferor to have the ability to repurchase or redeem the financial assets on substantially the agreed terms, even in the event of default by the transferee, and (2) the collateral maintenance implementation related to that criterion. Other criteria applicable to the assessment of effective control are not changed by the amendments in this ASU. The ASU is effective for the first interim or annual period beginning on or after December 15, 2011. The adoption of ASU 2011-03 did not have a material impact on the Company's financial condition or results of operations.