New Accounting Pronouncements: From time to time, new accounting pronouncements are issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") or other standard setting bodies that are adopted by Peoples as of the required effective dates.

Accounting Standards Update ("ASU") 2018-14 - Compensation-Retirement Benefits-Defined Benefit Plans-General (Subtopic 715-20): This update modifies the disclosure requirements for employees that sponsor defined benefit pension or other postretirement plans. This update will remove some current disclosure requirements and require an explanation of the reasons for significant gains and losses related to changes in the benefit obligation, the projected benefit obligation and fair value of plan assets for plans with projected benefit obligations in excess of plan assets, and the accumulated benefit obligation and fair value of plan assets for plans with accumulated benefit obligations in excess of plan assets. This ASU will become effective for interim and annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2020 (effective January 1, 2021 for Peoples). Peoples is currently reviewing this update and will adopt this new accounting guidance as required. This new accounting guidance is not expected to have a material impact on Peoples' consolidated financial statements.

ASU 2018-13 - Fair Value Measurement (Topic 820): The amendment in this update modify the disclosure requirements for fair value measurements. The amendment removes, modifies and adds to required disclosures related to certain fair value measurements. This ASU will become effective for interim and annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2019 (effective January 1, 2020 for Peoples). Peoples is currently reviewing the impact of this update and will adopt this new accounting guidance as required. This new accounting guidance is not expected to have a material impact on Peoples' consolidated financial statements.

ASU 2016-02 - Leases (Topic 842): There are aspects of this new accounting guidance that are still being interpreted and the FASB has issued updates to certain aspects of the guidance to address implementation issues. The FASB issued an update in January 2018 (ASU 2018-01) and two in July of 2018 (ASU 2018-10 and 2018-11), which are to provide transparency and comparability and clarify several areas of the guidance. ASU 2018-01 provides an optional transition practical expedient to not evaluate land easements that exist or expired before the entity's adoption of Topic 842, and were not previously accounted for as leases. ASU 2018-10 provides several areas of improvement and clarification to the original standard, including:


•	optional practical expedient that affects entities with land easements that existed or expired before the adoption,


•	a rate implicit in the lease of zero should be used when applying the definition,


•	requirements about lease classification reassessments related to modified terms and conditions,


•	accounting for the exercise by a lessee of an option to extend or terminate the lease or to purchase,


•	re-measurement of variable lease payments using the index or rate at the measurement date,


•	period covered by a lessor-only option to terminate the lease is included in the lease term,


•	operating leases acquired as part of a previous business combination classified as direct financing leases or sales-type leases,


•	adjustments to earnings rather than equity when applying retrospectively to prior reporting period, and


•	determining loss allowance of the net investment in the lease, including cash flow.

ASU 2018-11 addresses comparative reporting at adoption, including an option to apply the new lease standard at the adoption date and recognize a cumulative-effect adjustment to the opening balance of retained earnings in the period of adoption. It also includes the options of separating components of lease contracts, accounting for non-lease components with the lease if the lease is classified as an operating lease and the timing of components are the same. Under ASU 2016-02 and the related updates, a lessee will be required to recognize assets and liabilities for leases with terms of more than 12 months. These ASUs will become effective for interim and annual reporting periods affected beginning after December 15, 2018 (effective January 1, 2019 for Peoples). Peoples is currently identifying the population of leases that will be impacted by ASU 2016-02, and assessing the impact of the guidance provided in the subsequent updates, and will adopt this new accounting guidance as required. Peoples expects to recognize a one-time cumulative-effect adjustment to retained earnings as of the beginning of the first reporting period in which the new standard is effective. This new accounting guidance is not expected to have a material impact on Peoples' consolidated financial statements.

ASU 2018-09 - Codification Improvements: This update has been issued to address suggestions received from stakeholders on the Codification and to make other incremental improvements to GAAP. The improvements facilitate Codification updates for technical corrections, clarifications, and other minor improvements. The amendments in this update that do not require transition guidance became effective upon issuance of this update and did not have an impact on Peoples' consolidated financial statements. Many of the amendments in this update do have transition guidance with effective dates for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2018 (effective January 1, 2019 for Peoples). Peoples will adopt this new accounting guidance as required, and it is not expected to have a material impact on Peoples' consolidated financial statements.

ASU 2018-07 - Compensation - Stock Compensation (Topic 718): This update has been issued as part of a simplification initiative which will expand the scope of Topic 718 to include share-based payment transactions for acquiring goods and services from non-employees and improve aspects of the accounting for non-employee share-based payment transactions. The amendments will be effective for interim and annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2018 (effective January 1, 2019 for Peoples). Peoples will adopt this new accounting guidance as required, and it is not expected to have a material impact on Peoples' consolidated financial statements.

ASU 2018-06 - Codification Improvements (Topic 942): This update has been issued to increase stakeholders' awareness of the improvements to Topic 942, Financial Services - Depository and Lending. This update supersedes outdated guidance related to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's Banking Circular 202, Accounting for Net Deferred Tax Charges. The amendments became effective May 7, 2018, and did not have an impact on Peoples' consolidated financial statements.

ASU 2018-05 - Income Taxes (Topic 740): The amendments in this ASU clarify required disclosures in situations where a registrant does not have the necessary information available, prepared, or analyzed in reasonable detail to complete the accounting under ASC 740 for certain income tax effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act for the reporting period. As of December 31, 2017, Peoples partially completed the accounting for the income tax effects of the enactment of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act; however, in certain cases, Peoples made reasonable estimates of the effects of a reduced federal corporate income tax rate on its existing deferred tax balances. In other cases, Peoples has not been able to make a reasonable estimate and continued to account for those items based on its existing accounting under ASC 740, and the provisions of the tax laws that were in effect immediately prior to enactment of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. In all cases, Peoples will continue to make and refine its calculations during the one-year re-measurement period permitted under this ASU as additional analysis is completed. In addition, these estimates may be affected as Peoples gains a more thorough understanding of the new tax reform legislation.

ASU 2018-02 - Income Statement - Reporting Comprehensive Income (Topic 220): Reclassification of Certain Tax Effects from Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income. Peoples early adopted ASU 2018-02, reclassifying income tax effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of $0.9 million from accumulated other comprehensive loss to retained earnings as of December 31, 2017.

ASU 2017-12 - Derivatives and Hedging (Topic 815): Targeted Improvements to Accounting for Hedging Activities. The objective of the amendments in this ASU is to better align an entity’s risk management activities and financial reporting for hedging relationships through changes to both the designation and measurement guidance for qualifying hedging relationships, and the presentation of hedge results. To meet that objective, the amendments expand and refine hedge accounting for both nonfinancial and financial risk components, and align the recognition and presentation of the effects of the hedging instrument and the hedged item in the financial statements. The FASB issued an update in October of 2018, providing an eligible U.S. benchmark interest rate for purposes of applying hedge accounting. The amendments will be effective for interim and annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2018 (effective January 1, 2019 for Peoples). Peoples will adopt this new accounting guidance as required, and it is not expected to have a material impact on Peoples' consolidated financial statements.

ASU 2016-13 - Financial Instruments - Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments. This accounting guidance replaces the current “incurred loss” model for recognizing credit losses with an “expected loss” model, referred to as the Current Expected Credit Loss (“CECL”) model. Under the CECL model, Peoples will be required to present certain financial assets carried at amortized cost, such as loans held-for-investment and held-to-maturity debt securities, at the net amount expected to be collected.

The measurement of expected credit losses is to be based on information about past events, including historical experience, current conditions, and reasonable and supportable forecasts that affect the collectability of the reported amount. This measurement will take place at the time the financial asset is first added to the balance sheet and periodically thereafter. This differs significantly from the “incurred loss” model required under current US GAAP, which delays recognition until it is probable a loss has been incurred. Accordingly, Peoples expects that the adoption of the CECL model will materially affect how the allowance for loan losses is determined and could require significant increases to the allowance for loan losses. Moreover, the CECL model may create more volatility in the level of Peoples' allowance for loan losses. If required to materially increase the level of allowance for loan losses for any reason, such increase could adversely affect Peoples' business, financial condition and results of operations.

The new CECL standard will become effective for interim and annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2019 (effective January 1, 2020 for Peoples). Peoples continues to make progress on the design and development of estimation methodologies, current and future data requirements, and is in the process of implementing a technological solution to assist in the future calculations under the new methodology. Peoples is currently evaluating the impact that the CECL model will have on Peoples' financial statements and expects to recognize a one-time cumulative-effect adjustment to the allowance for loan loss provision as of the beginning of the first reporting period in which the new standard is effective, consistent with regulatory expectations set forth in interagency guidance issued at the end of 2016. Peoples believes that the adoption of the standard will result in an overall increase in the allowance for loan losses; however, the magnitude of the increase at adoption will depend on relevant data at the adoption date, including the characteristics of the loan portfolio, macroeconomic conditions and forecasts. Peoples has not yet determined the magnitude of any such one-time cumulative-effect adjustment or of the overall impact of the new standard on Peoples' financial condition or results of operations.