GFI Group Inc. Reports Operating Results (10-Q)

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Nov 09, 2011
GFI Group Inc. (GFIG, Financial) filed Quarterly Report for the period ended 2011-09-30.

Gfi Group Inc. has a market cap of $574.9 million; its shares were traded at around $4.74 with a P/E ratio of 15.8 and P/S ratio of 0.6. The dividend yield of Gfi Group Inc. stocks is 4.2%.

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In October 2009, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Accounting Standards Update No. 2009-13 (ASU 2009-13) Revenue Recognition (Topic 605) Multiple-Deliverable Revenue Arrangements. ASU 2009-13 establishes the accounting and reporting guidance for arrangements with multiple-revenue generating activities. ASU 2009-13 addresses how to separate deliverables and how to measure and allocate arrangement consideration to one or more units of accounting and provides a selling price hierarchy for determining the selling price of a deliverable. ASU 2009-13 is effective for fiscal years beginning on or after June 15, 2010. Early adoption is permitted but must be retrospectively applied to the beginning of the fiscal year of adoption. The adoption of ASU 2009-13 did not have a material impact on our condensed consolidated financial statements.

In October 2009, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update No. 2009-14 (ASU 2009-14) Software (Topic 985) Certain Revenue Arrangements That Include Software Elements. ASU 2009-14 provides guidance on how to allocate arrangement consideration to deliverables in an arrangement that includes both tangible products and software. ASU 2009-14 also provides additional guidance on how to determine which software, if any, relating to the tangible product would be excluded from software revenue recognition. ASU 2009-14 is effective for fiscal years beginning on or after June 15, 2010. Early adoption is permitted but must be retrospectively applied to the beginning of the fiscal year of adoption. The adoption of ASU 2009-13 did not have a material impact on our condensed consolidated financial statements.

In May 2011, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update No. 2011-04 (ASU 2011-04) Fair Value Measurement (Topic 820) Amendments to Achieve Common Fair Value Measurement and Disclosure Requirements in U.S. GAAP and IFRSs. ASU 2011-04 amends current guidance to result in common fair value measurement and disclosures between accounting principles generally accepted in the United States and International Financial Reporting Standards. The amendments result in a consistent definition of fair value and common requirements for measurement of and disclosure about fair value between U.S. GAAP and IFRS. The amendments in ASU 2011-04 are effective for interim and annual periods beginning after December 15, 2011. We do not expect the adoption of ASU 2011-04 to have a material impact on our condensed consolidated financial statements.

In June 2011, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update No. 2011-05 (ASU 2011-05) Comprehensive Income (Topic 220) Presentation of Comprehensive Income. The main objective of ASU 2011-05 is to improve the comparability, consistency, and transparency of financial reporting and increase the prominence of items reported in other comprehensive income (OCI) by eliminating the option to present components of OCI as part of the statement of changes in stockholders equity. The amendments in this standard requires entities to report the components of comprehensive income in either in (1) a single continuous statement of comprehensive income or (2) two separate but consecutive statements. The amendments in this standard do not change the items that must be reported in OCI. The amendments in ASU 2011-05 are effective for interim and annual periods beginning after December 15, 2011 and are to be applied retrospectively. We do not expect the adoption of ASU 2011-05 to have a material impact on our condensed consolidated financial statements.

In September 2011, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update No. 2011-08 (ASU 2011-08) Intangibles Goodwill and Other (Topic 350). ASU 2011-08 amends current guidance to allow entities to first assess qualitative factors to determine whether it is more likely than not (a likelihood of more than 50 percent) that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount. After assessing qualitative factors, if an entity determines that it is not more likely than not that the fair value of the reporting unit is less than its carrying amount, no further testing is necessary. If an entity determines that it is more likely than not that the fair value of the reporting unit is less than its carrying value, then the traditional two-step goodwill impairment test must be performed. The amendments in ASU 2011-08 are effective for interim and annual goodwill impairment tests performed for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2011, with early adoption permitted. We do not expect the adoption of ASU 2011-08 to have a material impact on our condensed consolidated financial statements.

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