New Accounting Standards

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Sep. 30, 2015

New Accounting Pronouncements and Changes in Accounting Principles [Abstract]

New Accounting Standards

NEW ACCOUNTING STANDARDS

Business Combinations – Simplifying the Accounting for Measurement-Period Adjustments

In September 2015, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2015-16, Business Combinations – Simplifying the Accounting for Measurement-Period Adjustments. ASU 2015-16 eliminates the requirement that an acquirer in a business combination account for measurement-period adjustments retrospectively. Instead, an acquirer must recognize measurement-period adjustments in the period in which it determines the amount of the adjustment, including the effect on earnings of any amounts that would have been recorded in previous periods if the accounting had been completed at the acquisition date. The guidance is effective for fiscal periods beginning after December 15, 2015, and interim periods within those fiscal years. Early adoption is permitted. The adoption of this update will not have a material effect on the financial statements, results of operations or liquidity of the Corporation.

Insurance – Disclosures about Short-Duration Contracts

In May 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-09, Financial Services – Insurance. ASU 2015-09 requires insurance entities that issue short-duration contracts to provide additional disclosures about the liability for unpaid claims and claim adjustment expenses, including disclosure of information about significant changes in methodologies and assumptions used to calculate the liability, reasons for the change, and the effects on the financial statements. These additional disclosures will increase the transparency of significant estimates made in measuring those liabilities, improve comparability by requiring consistent disclosure of information, and provide financial statement users with information to facilitate analysis. ASU 2015-09 should be applied retrospectively and is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2015, and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2016, with early adoption permitted. The adoption of this update is not expected to have a material effect on the financial statements, results of operations or liquidity of the Corporation.

Cloud Computing Arrangements

In April 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-05, Intangibles-Goodwill and Other-Internal-Use Software. ASU 2015-05 provides guidance about whether a cloud computing arrangement includes a license for internal use software, and how to account for the software license element of the arrangement. This update eliminates the existing requirement to analogize the guidance on leases in ASC 840 in accounting for some software licenses. ASU 2015-05 is effective for reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2015, with early adoption permitted. A reporting entity may apply ASU 2015-05 either prospectively or retrospectively. The Corporation is evaluating this new guidance and has not yet determined which approach it will adopt or the impact that the adoption of this update will have on its financial statements.

Interest – Imputation of Interest

In April 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-03, Interest – Imputation of Interest. ASU 2015-03 requires debt issuance costs to be presented in the balance sheet as a direct deduction from the corresponding debt liability. The recognition and measurement guidance for debt issuance costs is not affected by the amendments in this update. ASU 2015-03 is effective for reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2015, with early adoption permitted. A reporting entity should apply the new guidance on a retrospective basis, wherein the balance sheet of each individual period presented should be adjusted to reflect the period-specific effects of applying the new guidance. The adoption of this update is not expected to have a material effect on the financial statements, results of operations or liquidity of the Corporation.

Consolidation

In February 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-02, Consolidation. ASU 2015-02 changes the analysis that a reporting entity must perform to determine whether it should consolidate certain types of legal entities. This update modifies the evaluation of whether limited partnerships or similar legal entities are variable interest entities (VIEs) or voting interest entities, eliminates the presumption that a general partner should consolidate a limited partnership and affects the consolidation analysis of reporting entities that are involved with VIEs, particularly those that have fee arrangements and related party relationships. The ASU is effective for reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2015, with early adoption permitted. A reporting entity may apply ASU 2015-02 either retrospectively or by using a modified retrospective approach by recording a cumulative-effect adjustment to equity as of the beginning of the fiscal year of adoption. The adoption of this update is not expected to have a material effect on the financial statements, results of operations or liquidity of the Corporation.

Income Statement

In January 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-01, Income Statement – Extraordinary and Unusual Items. ASU 2015-01 simplified income statement presentation by eliminating from GAAP the concept of extraordinary items. The ASU is effective for reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2015, with early adoption permitted. A reporting entity may apply ASU 2015-01 prospectively, or retrospectively to all prior periods presented in the financial statements. The adoption of this update will not have an effect on the financial statements, results of operations or liquidity of the Corporation, as the Corporation has not reported extraordinary items.