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General
 9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2012
General [Abstract]  
General

Note 1. General

The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements of First Community Bancshares, Inc. and subsidiaries (“First Community” or the “Company”) have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (“GAAP”) for interim financial information and with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X. In the opinion of management, all adjustments, including normal recurring accruals, necessary for a fair presentation have been made. All significant intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. Operating results for the interim period are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the full calendar year. The Company has made certain reclassifications of prior period information necessary to conform to the current period presentation. These reclassifications had no effect on the Company’s financial position, results of operations, or stockholders’ equity.

The condensed consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2011, has been derived from the audited consolidated financial statements included in the Company’s 2011 Annual Report on Form 10-K (the “2011 Form 10-K”), as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on March 2, 2012. Certain information and footnote disclosures normally included in annual consolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP have been omitted in accordance with standards for the preparation of interim consolidated financial statements. These consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included in the Company’s 2011 Form 10-K.

The Company operates in one business segment, Community Banking. The Community Banking segment consists of all operations, including commercial and consumer banking, lending activities, wealth management, and insurance services.

Significant Accounting Policies

A complete and detailed description of the Company’s significant accounting policies is included in Note 1, “Summary of Significant Accounting Policies,” of the Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8, “Financial and Supplementary Data,” of the Company’s 2011 Form 10-K and Note 1, “General,” of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in Part I, Item 1, “Financial Statements,” of the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended March 31, 2012. Additional discussion of the Company’s application of critical accounting estimates is included within “Application of Critical Accounting Estimates” in Item 2, “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” herein.

Reclassifications and Corrections

During the third quarter of 2012, the Company discovered certain overstatements of loan charge-offs reported in prior periods beginning in 2007 which resulted from not recognizing the impact of interest payments that had been applied to principal for loans that were on non-accrual status. The error was discovered during the Company’s core system conversion completed during the third quarter of 2012. The overstatements of charge-offs resulted in an overstatement of provision for loan losses and corresponding understatement of pre-tax income that totaled $321 thousand, $639 thousand, and $938 thousand for the years-ended December 31, 2009, 2010, and 2011, respectively. The total periodic charge-off overstatements from 2007 to year-end 2011 approximated $2.39 million. Management analyzed the error to determine if any of the prior years were materially misstated and determined that they were not. Management also determined that correcting the error in the current year would not materially misstate this year’s results. The Company recorded the correction to the prior period understatements in the quarter ended September 30, 2012, through an increase to other income in the amount of $2.39 million.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

In August 2012, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standard Update (“ASU”) 2012-03, “Technical Amendments and Corrections to SEC Sections,” to codify various amendments and corrections included in SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin 114, SEC Release 33-9250, and ASU 2010-22, “Accounting for Various Topics: Technical Corrections to SEC Paragraphs.” The amendments and corrections included in ASU 2012-03 are effective upon issuance. The guidance had no impact on the Company’s financial statements.