New Accounting Pronouncements

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Jun. 30, 2020

Accounting Changes And Error Corrections [Abstract]

New Accounting Pronouncements

3.  New Accounting Pronouncements

Leases In February 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Accounting Standards Update (ASU) No. 2016-02, Leases – Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) Topic 842. In January, July, and December 2018 and March 2019, the FASB issued implementation amendments to the February 2016 ASU (collectively, the amended guidance).  The amended guidance changed the accounting treatment of leases, in that lessees recognize most leases on-balance sheet. This increased reported assets and liabilities, as lessees are required to recognize a right-of-use asset along with a lease liability, measured on a discounted basis. The amended guidance allows an entity to choose either the effective date, or the beginning of the earliest comparative period presented in the financial statements, as its date of initial application.  The Company adopted the amended guidance on January 1, 2019, using the effective date as the date of initial application.  Adoption of the amended guidance resulted in the recording of a right-of-use asset of $58.2 million and a lease liability of $63.0 million to its Consolidated Balance Sheets as of January 1, 2019.

Credit Losses In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-13, “Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments.”  In April and November 2019, the FASB issued implementation amendments to the June 2016 ASU (collectively, the amended guidance).  The amended guidance replaced the current incurred loss methodology for recognizing credit losses with a current expected credit loss (CECL) model, which requires 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. The amended guidance broadened the information that an entity must consider in developing its expected credit loss estimates.  Additionally, the updates amended the accounting for credit losses for available-for-sale debt securities and purchased financial assets with a more-than-insignificant amount of credit deterioration since origination.  The amended guidance required enhanced disclosures to help investors and other financial statement users better understand significant estimates and judgments used in estimating credit losses, as well as the credit quality and underwriting standards of a company’s loan portfolio. The Company adopted the amended guidance on January 1, 2020 using a modified retrospective approach for adoption.  

Results for reporting periods beginning after January 1, 2020 are presented under ASC Topic 326, Financial Instruments – Credit Losses, while prior period amounts continue to be reported in accordance with previously applicable Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).  Upon adoption, the Company recorded a cumulative effect adjustment to the Company’s Consolidated Balance Sheets of $9.0 million as increase to the allowance for credit losses and $7.0 million as a reduction to retained earnings, net of deferred tax balances.  See Note 4, “Loans and Allowance for Credit Losses” for related disclosures.