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Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2015
Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements  
Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements

 

Note 2 — Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements

 

Accounting Standards Adopted in 2015

 

In January 2014, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2014-01, Investments-Equity Method and Joint Ventures (Topic 323): “Accounting for Investments in Qualified Affordable Housing Projects.”  This Update permits reporting entities to make an accounting policy election to account for their investments in qualified affordable housing projects using the proportional amortization method if certain conditions are met.  Under the proportional amortization method, an entity amortizes the initial cost of the investment in proportion to the tax credits and other tax benefits received and recognizes the net investment performance in the income statement as a component of income tax expense.  This new guidance also requires new disclosures for all investors in these projects.  ASU No. 2014-01 is effective for interim and annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2014 for public business entities and after December 15, 2015 for non public business entities.  Upon adoption, the guidance must be applied retrospectively to all periods presented.  However, entities that used the effective yield method to account for investments in these projects before adoption may continue to do so for these pre-existing investments.  The Company currently accounts for such investments using the effective yield method and plans to do so for these pre-existing investments after adopting ASU No. 2014-01 on January 1, 2015.  The Company expects investments made after January 1, 2015 to meet the criteria required for the proportional amortization method and plans to make such an accounting election.  The Company adopted the provisions of ASU No. 2014-01 effective January 1, 2015.  The adoption had no impact on the Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements.

 

In January 2014, the FASB issued ASU No. 2014-04, Receivables-Troubled Debt Restructuring By Creditors (Subtopic 310-40): “Reclassification of Residential Real Estate Collateralized Consumer Mortgage Loans upon Foreclosure.”  The objective of this guidance is to clarify when an in substance repossession or foreclosure occurs, that is, when a creditor should be considered to have received physical possession of residential real estate property collateralizing a consumer mortgage loan such that the loan receivable should be derecognized and the real estate property recognized.  ASU No. 2014-04 states that an in substance repossession or foreclosure occurs, and a creditor is considered to have received physical possession of residential real estate property collateralizing a consumer mortgage loan, upon either (1) the creditor obtaining legal title to the residential real estate property upon completion of a foreclosure or (2) the borrower conveying all interest in the residential real estate property to the creditor to satisfy that loan through completion of a deed in lieu of foreclosure or through a similar legal agreement. Additionally, ASU No. 2014-04 requires interim and annual disclosure of both (1) the amount of foreclosed residential real estate property held by the creditor and (2) the recorded investment in consumer mortgage loans collateralized by residential real estate property that are in the process of foreclosure according to local requirements of the applicable jurisdiction.  ASU No. 2014-04 is effective for interim and annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2014.  The Company adopted the provisions of ASU No. 2014-4 effective January 1, 2015.  The adoption had no impact on the Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements.

 

In June 2014, the FASB issued ASU No. 2014-11, Transfers and Servicing (Topic 860):”Repurchase-to-Maturity Transactions, Repurchase Financings, and Disclosures.”  This Update aligns the accounting for repurchase-to-maturity transactions and repurchase agreements executed as repurchase financings with the accounting for other typical repurchase agreements.  Going forward, these transactions would all be accounted for as secured borrowings.  The guidance eliminates sale accounting for repurchase-to-maturity transactions and supersedes the guidance under which a transfer of a financial asset and a contemporaneous repurchase financing could be accounted for on a combined basis as a forward agreement, which has resulted in outcomes referred to as off-balance-sheet accounting.  The Update requires a new disclosure for transactions economically similar to repurchase agreements in which the transferor retains substantially all of the exposure to the economic return on the transferred financial assets throughout the term of the transaction.  The Update also requires expanded disclosures about the nature of collateral pledged in repurchase agreements and similar transactions accounted for as secured borrowings.  The Update is effective for interim or annual period beginning after December 15, 2014.  All of the Company’s repurchase agreements are typical in nature (i.e., not repurchase-to-maturity transactions or repurchase agreements executed as a repurchase financing) and are accounted for as secured borrowings.  The Company adopted the provisions of ASU No. 2014-11 effective January 1, 2015.  The adoption had no impact on the Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements.

 

In August 2014, the FASB issued ASU No. 2014-14 Receivables — Troubled Debt Restructurings by Creditors (Subtopic 310-40): “Classification of Certain Government-Guaranteed Mortgage Loans upon Foreclosure”.  This Update addresses classification of government-guaranteed mortgage loans, including those where guarantees are offered by the Federal Housing Administration (“FHA”), the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”), and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (“VA”).  Although current accounting guidance stipulates proper measurement and classification in situations where a creditor obtains from a debtor, assets in satisfaction of a receivable (such as through foreclosure), current guidance does not specify how to measure and classify foreclosed mortgage loans that are government-guaranteed.  Under the provisions of this Update, a creditor would derecognize a mortgage loan that has been foreclosed upon, and recognize a separate receivable if the following conditions are met: (1) the loan has a government guarantee that is not separable from the loan before foreclosure, (2) At the time of foreclosure, the creditor has the intent to convey the real estate property to the guarantor and make a claim on the guarantee, and the creditor has the ability to recover under that claim, (3) At the time of foreclosure, any amount of the claim that is determined on the basis of the fair value of the real estate is fixed.  This Update is effective for interim and annual periods beginning after December 15, 2014 for public business entities and after December 15, 2015 for non public business entities.  The Company adopted the provisions of ASU No. 2014-14 effective January 1, 2015.  The adoption had no impact on the Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements.

 

Accounting Standards Pending Adoption

 

In August 2014, the FASB issued guidance within ASU 2014-15, Presentation of Financial Statements - Going Concern (Subtopic 205-40): “Disclosure of Uncertainties about an Entity’s Ability to Continue as a Going Concern.  This Update provides guidance about management’s responsibility to evaluate whether there is substantial doubt about an entity’s ability to continue as a going concern.  The amendments require management to assess an entity’s ability to continue as a going concern by incorporating and expanding upon certain principles that are currently in U.S. auditing standards.  This Update is effective for interim and annual periods ending after December 15, 2016.  The adoption of this guidance is not expected to have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.