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Recent Accounting Pronouncements
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2018
Recent Accounting Pronouncements [Abstract]  
Recent Accounting Pronouncements

Note 11. Recent Accounting Pronouncements



In May 2014, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2014-09, “Revenue from Contracts with Customers”.  This ASU establishes a comprehensive revenue recognition standard for virtually all industries utilizing U.S. GAAP, including those that previously followed industry-specific guidance such as the real estate and construction industries.  The revenue standard’s core principle is built on the contract between a vendor and a customer for the provision of goods and services.  It attempts to depict the exchange of rights and obligations between the parties in the pattern of revenue recognition based on the consideration to which the vendor is entitled.  To accomplish this, the standard requires five basic steps: (i) identify the contract with the customer; (ii) identify the performance obligations in the contract; (iii) identify the transaction price; (iv) allocate the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract; and  (v) recognize revenue when (or as) the entity satisfies the performance obligation.  Three basic transition methods are available: full retrospective, retrospective with certain practical expedients, and a cumulative effect approach.  Under the cumulative effect alternative, an entity would apply the new revenue standard only to contracts that are incomplete under legacy U.S. GAAP at the date of initial application and recognize the cumulative effect of the new standard as an adjustment to the opening balance of retained earnings.  The guidance in this ASU was effective for annual periods and interim reporting periods within those annual periods, beginning after December 15, 2017.   Our payments business contracts encompass our services which are performed, and earned on a daily or monthly basis; accordingly, these contracts with various third parties generally do not entail significant amounts of deferred revenues. These services consist of reconciliation, fraud detection, regulatory compliance and other services which are performed and earned daily or monthly, and are also billed and collected on a monthly basis.  Accordingly, there is no significant component of the services we perform or related revenues which are deferred.  We have nonetheless reviewed a significant number of such contracts for prepaid card accounts, merchant acquiring (processing card payments for merchants) and automated clearing house, or ACH, for any potentially significant ramifications of the guidance.  We also reviewed other non-interest income producing categories of the Company which include service fees on deposit accounts, gains and losses on other real estate owned, gains and losses on the sale of loans and others.  Additionally, the standard does not apply to revenue from loans, securities and other financial instruments.  Based upon the nature of our businesses and the reviews we have performed to ascertain potential applicability, the adoption of this standard in the first quarter of 2018 did not have a significant impact on our consolidated results of operations or our consolidated financial position. 



In January 2016, the FASB issued Subtopic 825-10, “Financial Instruments-Overall” Recognition and Measurement of Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities”.  The main provisions of the guidance include, (i) the measurement of most equity investments at fair value with changes in fair value recorded through net income, except those accounted for under the equity method of accounting, or those that do not have a readily determinable fair value (for which a practical expedient can be elected); (ii) the required use of the exit price notion when valuing financial instruments for disclosure purposes; (iii) the separate presentation in other comprehensive income of the instrument-specific credit risk portion of the total change in the fair value of a liability under the fair value option; (iv) the determination of the need for a valuation allowance on a deferred tax asset related to available for sale securities must be made in combination with other deferred tax assets.  The guidance eliminates the current classifications of equity securities as trading or available for sale securities and will require separate presentation of financial assets and liabilities by category and form of the financial assets on the face of the balance sheet or within the accompanying notes.  The guidance also eliminates the requirement to disclose the methods and significant assumptions used to estimate fair value of financial instruments measured at amortized cost on the balance sheet.  The Company adopted this guidance in the first quarter of 2018. The adoption did not have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements.



In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, “Leases”.  The FASB issued this ASU to increase transparency and comparability among organizations by recognizing lease assets and lease liabilities on the balance sheet by lessees for those leases classified as operating leases under current U.S. GAAP and disclosing key information about leasing arrangements.  The amendments in this ASU are effective for annual periods, and interim periods within those annual periods, beginning after December 15, 2018.  Early application of this ASU is permitted for all entities.  The Company is currently assessing the impact that the adoption of this standard will have on the financial condition and results of operations of the Company.



In March 2016, the FASB issued an update ASU 2016-09, “Compensation-Stock Compensation (Topic 718): Improvements to Employee Share-Based Payment Accounting”.  The Update simplifies several areas of accounting for share-based payment awards issued to employees. There are income tax effects resulting from changes in stock price from the grant date to the vesting date of the employee stock compensation. The Update will require these income tax effects to be recognized in the statement of income within income tax expense instead of within additional paid-in capital.  In addition, the Update requires changes to the Statement of Cash Flows including the classification between the operating and financing section for tax activity related to employee stock compensation.  The Company adopted the guidance in the first quarter of 2017, and the adoption has not had a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.



In June 2016, the FASB issued an update ASU 2016-13 – “Financial Instruments – Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments”.  The Update changes the accounting for credit losses on loans and debt securities.  For loans and held-to-maturity debt securities, the Update requires a current expected credit loss (CECL) approach to determine the allowance for credit losses.  CECL requires loss estimates for the remaining estimated life of the financial asset using historical experience, current conditions, and reasonable and supportable forecasts.  Also, the Update eliminates the existing guidance for purchased credit impaired loans, but requires an allowance for purchased financial assets with more than insignificant deterioration since origination.  In addition, the Update modifies the OTTI impairment model for available-for-sale debt securities to require an allowance for credit impairment instead of a direct write-down, which allows for reversal of credit impairments in future periods based on improvements in credit.  The guidance is effective in the first quarter of 2020 with a cumulative-effect adjustment to retained earnings as of the beginning of the year of adoption. While early adoption is permitted beginning in the first quarter of 2019, the Company does not expect to elect that option. The Company is evaluating the impact of the Update on the consolidated financial statements.  The Company expects the Update will result in an increase in the allowance for credit losses given the change to estimated losses over the contractual life adjusted for expected prepayments, as well as the addition of an allowance for debt securities.  The amount of the increase will be impacted by the portfolio composition and credit quality at the adoption date as well as economic conditions and forecasts at that time. 



On December 22, 2017, the SEC staff issued Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 118 (SAB 118) to address the application of U.S. GAAP in situations when a registrant does not have the necessary information available, prepared, or analyzed (including computations) in reasonable detail to complete the accounting for certain income tax effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “2017 Act”).  This guidance provided registrants with three scenarios: 1) Measurement of certain income tax effects is complete, 2) Measurement of certain income tax effects can be reasonably estimated, and 3) Measurement of certain income tax effects cannot be reasonably estimated.  The Company has acted in good faith to estimate the effects of the 2017 Act. The results have been recognized and were reflected in the tax accounts in the 2017 year end financial statements.



In February 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-02, “Income Statement – Reporting Comprehensive Income (Topic 220); Reclassification of Certain Tax Effects from Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income”.  ASU 2018-02 allows a reclassification from accumulated other comprehensive income to retained earnings for stranded tax effects resulting from the 2017 Act.  Consequently, the amendment eliminates the stranded tax effect resulting from the 2017 Act and will improve the usefulness of information reported to financial statement users.  ASU 2018-02 is effective for financial statements issued for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2018.  The Company early adopted ASU 2018-02.  The effect of this adoption was a reclassification of $812,000 from accumulated other comprehensive income to retained earnings on the Company’s December 31, 2017 consolidated financial statements.



In August 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-13, “Fair Value Measurement (Topic 820) Disclosure Framework—Changes to the Disclosure Requirements for Fair Value Measurement” which eliminates certain fair value disclosures, adds new disclosures and amends another disclosure applicable to the Company as follows. The amendment states that disclosure of measurement uncertainty of the fair values to changes in inputs will be required for the reporting date and not future dates. New fair value disclosures consist of disclosure of: a)  total gains and losses in OCI from fair value changes in Level 3 assets and liabilities that are held on the balance sheet date; b) the range and weighted average of inputs and how the weighted average was calculated and c) if weighted average is not meaningful, other quantitative information that better reflects the distribution of inputs. ASU 2018-13 is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2019.