Recent Accounting Pronouncements

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Mar. 31, 2015

Recent Accounting Pronouncements [Abstract]

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

(12)          Recent Accounting Pronouncements

ASU 2014-09:  The Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) Update 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606).

The amendments in this Update establish a comprehensive revenue recognition standard for virtually all industries under U.S. GAAP, including those that previously followed industry-specific guidance such as the real estate, construction and software industries. The revenue standard’s core principle is built on the contract between a vendor and a customer for the provision of goods and services. It attempts to depict the exchange of rights and obligations between the parties in the pattern of revenue recognition based on the consideration to which the vendor is entitled. To accomplish this objective, the standard requires five basic steps: i) identify the contract with the customer, (ii) identify the performance obligations in the contract, (iii) determine the transaction price, (iv) allocate the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract, and (v) recognize revenue when (or as) the entity satisfies a performance obligation.

The ASU is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2016, including interim periods therein. Three basic transition methods are available – full retrospective, retrospective with certain practical expedients, and a cumulative effect approach. Under the this alternative, an entity would apply the new revenue standard only to contracts that are incomplete under legacy U.S. GAAP at the date of initial application (e.g. January 1, 2017) and recognize the cumulative effect of the new standard as an adjustment to the opening balance of retained earnings. That is, prior years would not be restated and additional disclosures would be required to enable users of the financial statements to understand the impact of adopting the new standard in the current year compared to prior years that are presented under legacy U.S. GAAP. Early adoption is prohibited. In April 2015, the FASB proposed a one-year delay of the effective date of the revenue recognition standard.  The deferral would require public entities to apply the new revenue standard for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2017, including interim reporting periods therein.  Public entities would be permitted to elect to early adopt for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2016. 

ASU 2014-17: The FASB issued ASU Update 2014-17, Business Combinations (Topic 805):  Pushdown Accounting (a consensus of the FASB Emerging Issues Task Force).

The ASU amends Topic 805 so that a reporting entity that is a business or nonprofit activity (an “acquiree”) has the option to apply pushdown accounting to its separate financial statements when an acquirer obtains control of the acquiree.  The option is available for each individual change-in-control event.  Control has the same meaning as a “controlling financial interest” under Topic 810, such that pushdown accounting may be applied if an acquirer obtains control through a simple majority of the outstanding voting shares of the acquiree (e.g., 51%).  Similarly, a Variable Interest Entity is considered an “acquiree” of its primary beneficiary and may also elect pushdown accounting.

If the acquiree elects to apply pushdown accounting, it must do so as of the acquisition date of the change-in-control event.  Further, any subsidiary of the acquiree may elect to apply pushdown accounting to its separate financial statements, regardless of whether the acquiree elects to apply pushdown accounting.  Upon election, the acquiree would adjust its standalone financial statements to reflect the acquirer’s new basis in the acquired entity’s assets and liabilities, and would provide relevant disclosures under Topic 805 to enable users to evaluate the effect of pushdown accounting.  The ASU became effective upon issuance on November 18, 2014.  After the effective date, an acquired entity can make an election to apply the guidance to future change-in-control events or to its most recent change-in-control event.

Mid Penn is currently evaluating the effects these Updates will have on its consolidated financial statements.