The accompanying consolidated financial statements in this report have been prepared in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission, including Regulation S- and the instructions for Form -Q, and have been audited. These consolidated financial statements do include all of the information and footnotes required by U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“U.S. GAAP”) for complete financial statements. In the opinion of management, all adjustments necessary to present fairly the consolidated financial position and the consolidated results of operations for the interim periods have been made. All such adjustments are of a normal nature. The consolidated results of operations are necessarily indicative of the consolidated results of operations which ServisFirst Bancshares, Inc. (the “Company”) achieve for future interim periods or the entire year. For further information, refer to the consolidated financial statements and footnotes included in the Company’s Form -K for the year ended

 

All reported amounts are in thousands except share and per share data.

 

The Company leases certain office space and equipment under operating leases. Accounting Standards Update - “” requires that operating leases in effect as of date of adoption, for the Company, be recognized as a liability to make lease payments and as an asset representing the right to use the asset during the lease term, or “lease liability” and “right-of-use asset”, respectively. The lease liability is measured by the present value of remaining lease payments, discounted at the Company’s incremental borrowing rate.

 

Certain of the leases include or more renewal options that extend the initial lease term to years. The exercise of lease renewal options is typically at the Company’s sole discretion; therefore, a majority of renewals to extend lease terms are included in the right-of-use assets and lease liabilities as they are reasonably certain to be exercised. Renewal options are regularly evaluated and when they are reasonably certain to be exercised, are included in lease terms.

 

of the Company’s leases provide an implicit rate. The Company uses its incremental collateralized borrowing rate based on the information available at the lease commencement date in determining the present value of the lease payments. The present value of all existing operating leases was determined using the incremental collateralized borrowing rate on

 

The Company has made an accounting policy election to apply the recognition requirements in ASU - to short-term leases. The Company has also elected to use the practical expedients allowed by the new standard as follows: ) forego an assessment of whether any existing contracts are or contain leases, ) forego an assessment of the classification of existing leases as to whether they are operating leases or capital leases, and ) forego an assessment of direct costs for any existing leases.