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Note 5 - Recent Accounting Pronouncements
 3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2020
Notes to Financial Statements  
Accounting Standards Update and Change in Accounting Principle [Text Block]
Note
5:
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
 
                In
June 2016,
the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update (ASU)
No.
2016
-
13,
“Financial Instruments – Credit Losses (Topic
326
): Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments.”  The amendments in this ASU, among other things, 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. The FASB has issued multiple updates to ASU
2016
-
13
as codified in Topic
326,
including ASU’s
2019
-
04,
2019
-
05,
2019
-
10,
2019
-
11,
2020
-
02,
and
2020
-
03.
  These ASU’s have provided for various minor technical corrections and improvements to the codification as well as other transition matters.  Smaller reporting companies who file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and all other entities who do
not
file with the SEC are required to apply the guidance for fiscal years, and interim periods within those years, beginning after
December 15, 2022. 
The Company is currently assessing the impact that ASU
2016
-
13
will have on its consolidated financial statements. Management is working to ensure readiness and compliance with the standard and has implemented coding of the loan portfolio to enable appropriate segregation and data integrity, analyzed correlations for forecasting, determined methodologies, and selected a vendor to provide a platform.  Management has prepared multiple concurrent models using the Current Expected Credit Losses (“CECL”) methodology and will continue to refine assumptions that impact the calculation prior to the effective date.
Effective
November 25, 2019,
the SEC adopted Staff Accounting Bulletin (“SAB”)
119.
  SAB
119
updated portions of SEC interpretative guidance to align with FASB Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC
326”
), “Financial Instruments – Credit Losses.”  It covers topics including (
1
) measuring current expected credit losses; (
2
) development, governance, and documentation of a systematic methodology; (
3
) documenting the results of a systematic methodology; and (
4
) validating a systematic methodology.
In
December 2019,
the FASB issued ASU
2019
-
12,
“Income Taxes (Topic
740
) – Simplifying the Accounting for Income Taxes.”  The ASU is expected to reduce cost and complexity related to the accounting for income taxes by removing specific exceptions to general principles in Topic
740
(eliminating the need for an organization to analyze whether certain exceptions apply in a given period) and improving financial statement preparers’ application of certain income tax-related guidance. This ASU is part of the FASB’s simplification initiative to make narrow-scope simplifications and improvements to accounting standards through a series of short-term projects.  For public business entities, the amendments are effective for fiscal years beginning after
December 15, 2020,
and interim periods within those fiscal years.  Early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently assessing the impact that ASU
2019
-
12
will have on its consolidated financial statements.
In
January 2020,
the FASB issued ASU
2020
-
01,
“Investments – Equity Securities (Topic
321
), Investments – Equity Method and Joint Ventures (Topic
323
), and Derivatives and Hedging (Topic
815
) – Clarifying the Interactions between Topic
321,
Topic
323,
and Topic
815.”
  The ASU is based on a consensus of the FASB’s Emerging Issues Task Force and is expected to increase comparability in accounting for these transactions.  ASU
2016
-
01
made targeted improvements to accounting for financial instruments, including providing an entity the ability to measure certain equity securities without a readily determinable fair value at cost, less any impairment, plus or minus changes resulting from observable price changes in orderly transactions for the identical or a similar investment of the same issuer.  Among other topics, the amendments clarify that an entity should consider observable transactions that require it to either apply or discontinue the equity method of accounting.  For public business entities, the amendments in the ASU are effective for fiscal years beginning after
December 15, 2020,
and interim periods within those fiscal years.  Early adoption is permitted. The Company does
not
expect the adoption of ASU
2020
-
01
to have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.
 
On
March 12, 2020,
the SEC finalized amendments to the definitions of its “accelerated filer” and “large accelerated filer” definitions. The amendments increase the threshold criteria for meeting these filer classifications and are effective on
April 27, 2020.
Any changes in filer status are to be applied beginning with the filer’s
first
annual report filed with the SEC subsequent to the effective date.  Prior to these changes, the Company was required to comply with section
404
(b) of the Sarbanes Oxley Act concerning auditor attestation over internal control over financial reporting as an “accelerated filer” as it had more than
$75
million in public float but less than
$700
million at the end of the Company’s most recent
second
quarter.  The rule change expands the definition of “smaller reporting company” to include entities with public float of less than
$700
million and less than
$100
million in annual revenues.  The Company expects to meet this expanded category of small reporting company and will
no
longer be considered an accelerated filer.  If the Company’s annual revenues exceed
$100
million, its category will change back to “accelerated filer”.  The classifications of “accelerated filer” and “large accelerated filer” require a public company to obtain an auditor attestation concerning the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting (ICFR) and include the opinion on ICFR in its annual report on Form
10
-K.  Smaller reporting companies also have additional time to file quarterly and annual financial statements.  All public companies are required to obtain and file annual financial statement audits, as well as provide management’s assertion on effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, but the external auditor attestation of internal control over financial reporting is
not
required for smaller reporting companies.  As the Bank has total assets exceeding
$1.0
billion, it remains subject to FDICIA, which requires an auditor attestation concerning internal controls over financial reporting.  As such, other than the additional time provided to file quarterly and annual financial statements, this change does
not
significantly change the Company’s annual reporting and audit requirements.
In
August 2018,
the FASB issued ASU
2018
-
14,
“Compensation—Retirement Benefits—Defined Benefit Plans—General (Subtopic
715
-
20
): Disclosure Framework—Changes to the Disclosure Requirements for Defined Benefit Plans.”  These amendments modify the disclosure requirements for employers that sponsor defined benefit pension or other postretirement plans. Certain disclosure requirements have been deleted while the following disclosure requirements have been added: the weighted-average interest crediting rates for cash balance plans and other plans with promised interest crediting rates and an explanation of the reasons for significant gains and losses related to changes in the benefit obligation for the period. The amendments also clarify the disclosure requirements in paragraph
715
-
20
-
50
-
3,
which state that the following information for defined benefit pension plans should be disclosed: The projected benefit obligation (PBO) and fair value of plan assets for plans with PBOs in excess of plan assets and the accumulated benefit obligation (ABO) and fair value of plan assets for plans with ABOs in excess of plan assets. The amendments are effective for fiscal years ending after
December 15, 2020.
Early adoption is permitted. The Company does
not
expect the adoption of ASU
2018
-
14
to have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.