Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

2. New Accounting Pronouncements

In December 2008, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued FASB Staff Position (FSP) 132(R)-1, Employers' Disclosures about Pensions and Other Postretirement Benefits. FSP 132(R)-1 requires enhanced disclosures about the plan assets of a Company's defined benefit and other postretirement plans. This FSP is effective for fiscal years ending after December 15, 2009. FSP 132(R)-1 will not impact our financial position or results of operations because it only affects financial statement disclosures.

In May 2008, the FASB issued SFAS 162, The Hierarchy of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. This statement identifies the sources of accounting principles and how those accounting principles should be used in preparing financial statements in accordance with GAAP. This statement was effective November 15, 2008. SFAS 162 had no impact on our financial statements.

In March 2008, the FASB issued SFAS 161, Disclosures About Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities, an amendment of SFAS 133. SFAS 161 is designed to improve the transparency of an entity's financial reporting by requiring enhanced disclosures about an entity's derivative and hedging activities. SFAS 161 is effective for fiscal years and interim periods beginning on or after November 15, 2008. SFAS 161 will not impact our financial position or results of operations because it only affects financial statement disclosures.

In December 2007, the FASB issued SFAS 160, Noncontrolling Interests in Consolidated Financial Statements, an amendment of ARB No. 51. SFAS 160 establishes accounting and reporting standards designed to improve the relevance, comparability and transparency of the financial information provided in a reporting entity's consolidated financial statements. SFAS 160 is effective for fiscal years and interim periods beginning on or after December 15, 2008. SFAS 160 will not have a material impact on our financial statements. However, it could impact our accounting for future transactions.

In December 2007, the FASB issued SFAS 14(R) Business Combinations. SFAS 141(R) establishes principles and requirements for an acquirer, that are designed to improve the relevance, representational faithfulness and comparability of information provided by a reporting entity in its financial reports about business combinations and their effects. SFAS 141(R) is effective prospectively to business combinations with an acquisition date on or after the beginning of the first annual reporting period beginning on or after December 15, 2008. We adopted this statement on January 3, 2009. The impact of the adoption of SFAS 141(R) on our financial statements will largely be dependent on the size and nature of the business combinations completed after the adoption of this statement. While SFAS 141(R) generally applies only to transactions that close after its effective date, the amendments to SFAS 109, Accounting for Income Taxes and FASB Interpretation (FIN) 48, Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes, are applied prospectively as of the adoption date and will apply to business combinations with acquisition dates before the effective date of SFAS 141R. We estimate that approximately $14.4 million of unrecognized tax benefits associated with prior acquisitions, if recognized, would impact income tax expense instead of goodwill in future periods as a result of SFAS 141(R).

We adopted the provisions of SFAS 157, Fair Value Measurements, for all financial assets and liabilities and recurring non-financial assets and liabilities and SFAS 159, The Fair Value Option for Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities, including an amendment of SFAS 115, on December 29, 2007. The adoption of these standards had no effect on our beginning retained earnings or current earnings. See Note 5, Fair Value Measurements, for additional information. In February 2008, the FASB issued FASB Staff Position (FSP) 157-2, an amendment to the Fair Value Measurements standard. Based on the provisions of FSP 157-2, we have deferred adoption of SFAS 157 to January 3, 2009, for all non-recurring non-financial assets that include property, plant and equipment, goodwill, intangible assets and investments in partnerships and start-up technology companies. FSP 157-2 will not have a material impact on our financial statements.