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Recent Accounting Standards | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2019
Recent Accounting Standards [Abstract] |
RECENT ACCOUNTING STANDARDS | RECENT ACCOUNTING STANDARDS UPDATES Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") Accounting Standards Codification ("ASC") Topic 326 "Financial Instruments - Credit Losses" Update No. 2016-13. Update No. 2016-13 was issued in June 2016 to provide financial statement users with more decision-useful information about the expected credit losses on financial instruments and other commitments to extend credit held by a reporting entity at each reporting date. To achieve this objective, this update replaces the incurred loss impairment methodology in current GAAP with a methodology that reflects expected credit losses and requires consideration of a broader range of reasonable and supportable information to inform credit loss estimates. The amendments affect loans, debt securities, trade receivables, net investments in leases, off-balance sheet credit exposures, reinsurance receivables, and any other financial assets not excluded from the scope that have the contractual right to receive cash. The Company will adopt the update on January 1, 2020 and is currently assessing the impact of the adoption of this standard on the Company's consolidated financial position. To date, the Company has been assessing the key differences and gaps between its current allowance methodologies and models with those it is considering to use upon adoption. In particular, the Company has completed the development and validation of historical loss and recovery data and has identified significant key assumptions needed to translate the data into a life of loan estimate. During the fourth quarter of 2019, the Company expects to perform a full parallel run of the current expected credit loss ("CECL") model in tandem with the current incurred loss model, using September 30, 2019 balances, the results of which will allow the Company to finalize and document its CECL model and processes. In addition, the Company has also begun developing accounting policies, as well as considering the need for new internal controls relevant to the updated methodologies and models. Since the Update No. 2016-13, the FASB has issued amendments intended on improving the clarification of the amendment, FASB ASC Topic 326 "Financial Instruments - Credit Losses" Update No. 2018-19 and Update No 2019-04. The amendment in Update No. 2018-19 was issued in November 2018 and was intended to clarify that receivables arising from operating leases are not within the scope of Subtopic 326-20. Instead, impairment of receivables arising from operating leases should be accounted for in accordance with Topic 842, Leases. The amendment in Update No. 2019-04 was issued in April 2019 and was intended to clarify stakeholders' specific issues about certain aspects of the amendments in Update No. 2016-13. Update No. 2019-05 on FASB ASC Topic 326 "Financial Instruments - Credit Losses" was also issued in May 2019. This update provides entities the option to irrevocably elect the fair value option for certain financial assets previously measured at amortized costs basis. The fair value option election does not apply to held-to-maturity debt securities. An entity that elects the fair value option should subsequently apply the guidance in Subtopics 820-10, Fair Value Measurement - Overall. The amendments in this update should be applied on a modified-retrospective basis by means of a cumulative-effect adjustment to the opening balance of retained earnings balance in the statement of financial position as of the date that an entity early adopted the amendments in update 2016-13.

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