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Recent Accounting Standards Update (ASU)
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2014
Recent Accounting Standards Update (ASU) [Abstract]  
Recent Accounting Standards Update (ASU)

2.  Recent Accounting Standards Updates (ASU)

 

Accounting Standards Update 2014-01, Investments – Equity Method and Joint Ventures (Topic 323): Accounting for Investments in Qualified Affordable Housing Projects (a consensus of the FASB Emerging Issues Task Force)

Issued: January 2014

Summary:  The Low Income Housing Tax Credit is a program designed to encourage investment of private capital for use in the construction and rehabilitation of low income housing, which provides certain tax benefits to investors in those projects.  The amendments in this Update permit a reporting entity that invests in qualified affordable housing projects to account for the investments using a proportional amortization method if certain conditions are met.  If an entity elects the proportional amortization method, it will amortize the initial cost of the investment in proportion to the tax credits and other tax benefits received and recognize the net investment performance in the income statement as a component of income tax expense.  Otherwise, the entity would apply either the equity method or the cost method, as appropriate.

Effective Date and Transition:  The amendments in this Update are effective for public business entities for annual periods and interim reporting periods within those annual periods, beginning after December 15, 2014. Early adoption is permitted.  If adopted, the amendments should be applied retrospectively to all periods presented.  A reporting entity that uses the effective yield method to account for its investments in qualified affordable housing projects before the date of adoption may continue to apply the effective yield method for those preexisting investments. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of this Update on its consolidated financial statements.

 

Accounting Standards Update 2014-04,  Receivables – Troubled Debt Restructurings by Creditors (Subtopic 310-40): Reclassification of Residential Real Estate Collateralized Consumer Mortgage Loans upon Foreclosure (a consensus of the FASB Emerging Issues Task Force)

Issued: January 2014

Summary:   The Update clarifies that when 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.

Effective Date and Transition:   The Amendments in this Update are effective for public business entities for annual periods and interim periods within those annual periods, beginning after December 15, 2014.  Early adoption is permitted. If adopted, an entity can elect to adopt the amendments in this update using either a modified retrospective transition method or a prospective transition method. The Company is evaluating the effects this Update will have on its consolidated financial condition or results of operation.