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Note 9 - Recent Accounting Pronouncements

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Note 9 - Recent Accounting Pronouncements
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2017
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NOTE
9
– RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS
 
In
May
2014,
the FASB issued ASU No.
2014
-
09,
Revenue From Contracts With Customers
(Topic
606).
These amendments affect any entity that either enters into contracts with customers to transfer goods or services or enters into contracts for the transfer of nonfinancial assets unless those contracts are within the scope of other standards (e.g. insurance contracts or lease contracts). This ASU will supersede the revenue recognition requirements in Topic
605,
Revenue Recognition, and most industry-specific guidance, and creates a Topic
606,
Revenue from Contracts with Customers. The core principle of the guidance is that an entity should recognize revenue to depict the transfer of promised goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the entity expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services. This ASU also requires additional disclosure about the nature, amount, timing and uncertainty of revenue and cash flows arising from customer contracts, including significant judgments and changes in judgments and assets recognized from costs incurred to obtain or fulfill a contract. The ASU allows for either full retrospective or modified retrospective adoption. In
August
2015,
the FASB issued ASU
2015
-
14,
Revenue From Contracts With Customers (Topic
606):
Deferral of the Effective Date.
This ASU defers the effective date of ASU
2014
-
09,
Revenue From Contracts With Customers (Topic
606)
, by
one
year. The new guidance is effective for interim and annual reporting periods beginning after
December
15,
2017.
Early adoption is permitted for interim and annual reporting periods beginning after
December
15,
2016.
The Company’s revenue has been more significantly weighted towards net interest income on financial assets and liabilities, which is explicitly excluded from the scope of the new standard, and noninterest income has not been as significant. The Company has begun to scope its general ledger revenue items and assess its contracts with customers to identify its performance obligations and will continue to evaluate the impact of adoption on its noninterest income and on its disclosures.
 
In
January
2016,
the FASB issued ASU
2016
-
1,
Financial Instruments Overall (Topic
825):
Recognition and Measurement of Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities
. The amendments in ASU
2016
-
1:
(a) requires equity investments (except for those accounted for under the equity method of accounting or those that result in consolidation of the investee) to be measured at fair value with changes in fair value recognized in net income; (b) simplifies the impairment assessment of equity securities without readily determinable fair values by requiring a qualitative assessment to identify impairment; (c) eliminates the requirement for public business entities to disclose the method and significant assumptions used to estimate the fair value that is required to be disclosed for financial instruments measured at amortized cost on the balance sheet; (d) requires public business entities to use the exit price notion when measuring the fair value of financial instruments for disclosure purposes; (e) requires an entity to present separately in other comprehensive income, the portion of the total change in the fair value of a liability resulting from a change in the instrument-specific credit risk when the entity has elected to measure the liability at fair value in accordance with the fair value option for financial instruments; (f) requires separate presentation of financial assets and financial liabilities by measurement category and form of financial assets on the balance sheet or the notes to the financial statements; and (g) clarifies that an entity should evaluate the need for a valuation allowance on a deferred tax asset related to available-for-sale securities in combination with the entity’s other deferred tax assets. The amendments in this ASU are effective for public companies for fiscal years beginning after
December
15,
2017,
including interim periods within those fiscal years. The Company is evaluating the provisions of this ASU to determine the potential impact the new standard will have on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
 
In
February
2016,
the FASB issued ASU
2016
-
02,
 
Leases (Topic
842)
. 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 public business entities 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 leases many of its banking offices under lease agreements it classifies as operating leases. The Company is currently evaluating the impact that the new guidance will have on its consolidated financial statements. Management currently anticipates recognizing a right-of-use asset and a lease liability associated with its long-term operating leases.
 
In
March
2016,
the FASB issued ASU
2016
-
07
, Investments – Equity Method and Joint Ventures (Topic
323),
Simplifying the Transition to the Equity Method of Accounting
. The amendments eliminate the requirement that when an investment qualifies for use of the equity method as a result of an increase in the level of ownership interest or degree of influence, an investor must adjust the investment, results of operations, and retained earnings retroactively on a step-by-step basis as if the equity method had been in effect during all previous periods that the investment had been held. The amendments require that the equity method investor add the cost of acquiring the additional interest in the investee to the current basis of the investor’s previously held interest and adopt the equity method of accounting as of the date the investment becomes qualified for equity method accounting. The amendments require that an entity that has an available-for-sale equity security that becomes qualified for the equity method of accounting recognize through earnings the unrealized holding gain or loss in accumulated other comprehensive income at the date the investment becomes qualified for use of the equity method. The amendments are effective for all entities for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after
December
15,
2016.
The amendments should be applied prospectively upon their effective date to increase the level of ownership interest or degree of influence that result in the adoption of the equity method. Adoption of this standard has not affected the consolidated financial statements.
 
 
In
June
2016,
the FASB issued ASU
2016
-
13,
Financial Instruments-Credit Losses (Topic
326):
Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments
, which is essentially the final rule on use of the so-called CECL model, or current expected credit losses. Among other things, the amendments in this ASU require the measurement of all expected credit losses for financial assets held at the reporting date based on historical experience, current conditions, and reasonable and supportable forecasts. Financial institutions and other organizations will now use forward-looking information to better inform their credit loss estimates. Many of the loss estimation techniques applied today will still be permitted, although the inputs to those techniques will change to reflect the full amount of expected credit losses. In addition, the ASU amends the accounting for credit losses on available-for-sale debt securities and purchased financial assets with credit deterioration. For SEC filers, the amendments in this ASU are effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after
December
15,
2019,
with later effective dates for non-SEC registrant public companies and other organizations. Early adoption will be permitted for all organizations for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after
December
15,
2018.
The Company is currently evaluating the impact of the amendments in this ASU on its consolidated financial statements, and is collecting data that will be needed to produce historical inputs into any models created as a result of adopting this ASU.
 
In
August
2016,
the FASB issued ASU
2016
-
15,
Statement of Cash Flows (Topic
230):
Classification of Certain Cash Receipts and Cash Payments,
to address diversity in how certain cash receipts and cash payments are presented and classified in the statement of cash flows. The amendments provide guidance on the following
eight
specific cash flow issues:
1)
debt prepayment or debt extinguishment costs;
2)
settlement of
zero
-coupon debt instruments or other debt instruments with coupon interest rates that are insignificant in relation to the effective interest rate of the borrowing;
3)
contingent consideration payments made after a business combination;
4)
proceeds from the settlement of insurance claims;
5)
proceeds from the settlement of corporate-owned life insurance policies, including bank-owned life insurance policies;
6)
distributions received from equity method investees;
7)
beneficial interests in securitization transactions; and
8)
separately identifiable cash flows and application of the predominance principle. The amendments are effective for public companies for fiscal years beginning after
December
31,
2017,
and interim periods within those fiscal years. For all other entities, the amendments are effective for fiscal years beginning after
December
15,
2018,
and interim periods with fiscal years beginning after
December
15,
2019.
Early adoption is permitted, including adoption in an interim period. As this guidance only affects the classification within the statement of cash flows, this ASU is not expected to have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
 
In
January
2017,
the FASB issued ASU
2017
-
01,
 
Business Combinations (Topic
805):
Clarifying the Definition of a Business,
 which is intended to provide guidance in evaluating whether transactions should be accounted for as acquisitions (or disposals) of assets or businesses in order to provide stakeholders with more detailed reporting and less cost to analyze transactions. This ASU provides a screen to determine when a set of assets is not a business. It requires that when substantially all fair value of gross assets acquired (or disposed of) is concentrated in a single identifiable asset or group of similar identifiable assets, the set of assets is not a business. If the screen is not met, the amendments in this update provide a framework to assist entities in evaluating whether both an input and a substantive process are present for the set to be a business. ASU
2017
-
01
is effective for annual periods beginning after
December
15,
2017,
including interim periods within those annual periods. No disclosures are required at transition and early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of the amendments in this ASU on its consolidated financial statements.
 
In
January
2017,
the FASB issued ASU
2017
-
04,
 
Intangibles - Goodwill and Other (Topic
350):
Simplifying the Test for Goodwill Impairment
, which eliminates the
second
step of the previous FASB guidance for testing goodwill for impairment and is intended to reduce cost and complexity of goodwill impairment testing. The amendments in this ASU modify the concept of impairment from the condition that exists when the carrying amount of goodwill exceeds its implied fair value to the condition that exists when the carrying amount of a reporting unit exceeds its fair value. After determining if the carrying amount of a reporting unit exceeds its fair value, the entity should take an impairment charge of the same amount to the goodwill for that reporting unit, not to exceed the total goodwill amount for that reporting unit. ASU
2017
-
04
is effective for annual periods beginning after
December
15,
2019,
including interim periods within those annual periods. Early adoption is permitted for interim or annual goodwill impairment tests performed on testing dates after
January
1,
2017.
The Company is currently evaluating the impact of the amendments in this ASU on its consolidated financial statements.
 
In
March
2017,
the FASB issued ASU
2017
-
08,
Receivables – Nonrefundable Fees and Other Costs (Subtopic
310
-
20),
Premium Amortization on Purchased Callable Debt Securities,
which shorten the amortization period for certain callable debt securities held at a premium. Specifically, the amendments require the premium to be amortized to the earliest call date. The amendments do not require an accounting change for securities held at a discount; the discount continues to be amortized to maturity. ASU
2017
-
08
is effective for public entities for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after
December
15,
2018.
The Company is currently reviewing its portfolio of debt securities to determine the impact that this ASU will have on its consolidated financial statements.