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SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Tables)
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2016
Summary of interest income recognition methodology for Residential Investment Securities
The table below summarizes the interest income recognition methodology for Residential Investment Securities:
 
Interest Income
Methodology
Agency
 
Fixed-rate pass-through(1)
Effective yield(3)
Adjustable-rate pass-through(1)
Effective yield(3)
CMO(1)
Effective yield(3)
 
Debentures(1)
Contractual Cash
Flows
Interest-only(2)
Prospective
   
Residential Credit
 
CRT(2)
Prospective
Legacy (2)
Prospective
NPL/RPL (2)
Prospective
New issue (2)
Prospective
New issue interest-only (2)
Prospective
   
(1) Changes in fair value are recognized in Other comprehensive income (loss) on the accompanying Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Loss).
(2) Changes in fair value are recognized in Net unrealized gains (losses) on financial instruments measured at fair value through earnings on the accompanying Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Loss).
(3) Effective yield is recalculated for differences between estimated and actual prepayments and the amortized cost is adjusted as if the new effective yield had been applied since inception.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
The following table provides a brief description of recent accounting pronouncements that could potentially impact the Company’s consolidated financial statements:
 
 
Standard
 
Description
 
Date of Adoption
 
Effect on the financial statements or other
significant matters
Standards that are not yet adopted
 
 
 
 
 
 
ASU 2016-13 Financial Instruments - Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments
 
This ASU updates the existing incurred loss model to a current expected credit loss model for financial assets and net investments in leases that are not accounted for at fair value through earnings.  The amendments affect loans, debt securities, trade receivables, net investments in leases, off balance sheet credit exposures and any other financial assets not excluded from the scope.  There are also changes to the accounting for available for sale debt securities.
 
January 1, 2020 (early adoption permitted)
 
The Company is assessing the impact to the consolidated financial statements.
ASU 2016-02 Leases (Topic 842)
 
The amendments require lessees to recognize a right-of-use asset and a liability to make lease payments in the statement of financial position for most leases.  The accounting for lessors is largely unchanged.
 
January 1, 2019 (early adoption permitted)
 
Not expected to have a significant impact to the consolidated financial statements.
ASU 2016-01 Financial Instruments - Overall (Subtopic 825-10) Recognition and Measurement of Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities
 
The amendments address certain aspects of recognition, measurement, presentation, and disclosure of financial instruments.
 
January 1, 2018 (early adoption permitted for a provision related presentation of instrument-specific credit risk of liabilities accounted for under the fair value option)
 
Expected to impact disclosures only and not have a significant impact to the consolidated financial statements.
ASU 2014-15, Presentation of Financial Statements – Going Concern (Subtopic 205-04) Disclosure of Uncertainties about an Entity’s Ability to Continue as a Going Concern
 
This ASU requires management to evaluate whether there are conditions or events, considered in the aggregate, that raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern within one year after the date the financial statements are issued.
 
January 1, 2017 (early adoption permitted)
 
Not expected to have an impact to the consolidated financial statements.
ASU 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers
 
This guidance applies to contracts with customers to transfer goods or services and contracts to transfer nonfinancial assets unless those contracts are within the scope of other standards (for example, lease transactions).
 
 January 1, 2018
 
Not expected to have a significant impact to the consolidated financial statements.
Standard
 
Description
 
Date of Adoption
 
Effect on the financial statements or other significant matters
Standards that were adopted
 
 
 
 
 
 
ASU 2015-16 Business Combinations (Topic 805) Simplifying the Accounting Measurement-Period Adjustments
 
This amendment removes the requirement to present adjustments to provisional amounts retrospectively.  The update requires that an acquirer record, in the same period's financial statements, the effect on earnings of changes in depreciation, amortization, or other income effects, if any, as a result of the change to provisional amounts.
 
January 1, 2016 (early adoption permitted)
 
Did not have a significant impact to the consolidated financial statements.
ASU 2015-15, Interest - Imputation of Interest (Subtopic 835-30) Simplifying the Presentation and Subsequent Measurement of Debt Issuance Costs Associated with Line-of-Credit Arrangements - Amendments to SEC Paragraphs Pursuant to Staff Announcement at June 18, 2015 EITF Meeting (SEC Update)
 
This amendment provides SEC guidance that it would not object to filers presenting debt issue costs related to line-of-credit arrangements as an asset and ratably amortizing the costs over the term of the arrangement.
 
June 18, 2015 (early adoption permitted)
 
Did not have an impact to the consolidated financial statements.
ASU 2015-10, Technical Corrections and Improvements
 
This perpetual project updates the Codification for technical corrections and improvements.
 
January 1, 2016 (early adoption permitted), for amendments subject to transition guidance
 
Did not have a significant impact to the consolidated financial statements.
ASU 2015-08, Business Combinations  Topic 805 Pushdown Accounting Amendments to SEC Paragraphs Pursuant to Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 115
 
This update amends the codification for SEC Staff Bulletin No. 115
 
November 18, 2014
 
Did not have a significant impact to the consolidated financial statements.
ASU 2015-07, Fair Value Measurement (Topic 820): Disclosures for Investments in Certain Entities That Calculate Net Asset Value per Share (or Its Equivalent)
 
This update removes the requirement to categorize within the fair value hierarchy all investments for which fair value is measured using the net asset value per share practical expedient and also removes certain disclosure requirements for these investments.
 
January 1, 2016 (early adoption permitted)
 
Did not have an impact to the consolidated financial statements.
 
 
Standard
 
Description
 
Date of Adoption
 
Effect on the financial statements or other
significant matters
ASU 2015-05, Customer's Accounting for Fees Paid in a Cloud Computing Arrangement
 
This update clarifies that customers should determine whether a cloud computing arrangement includes the license of software by applying the same guidance cloud service providers use.  The guidance also eliminates the current requirement that customers analogize to the leasing standard when determining the asset acquired in a software licensing arrangement.
 
January 1, 2016 (early adoption permitted)
 
Did not have a significant impact to the consolidated financial statements.
ASU 2015-03, Interest - Imputation of Interest (Subtopic 835-30) Simplifying the Presentation of Debt Issuance Costs
 
This ASU requires that debt issue costs are presented in the balance sheet as a direct deduction from the carrying amount of that debt liability.  The recognition and measurement of debt issue costs are not affected.
 
January 1, 2016 (early adoption permitted)
 
Impacted presentation only and did not have a significant impact to the consolidated financial statements.
ASU 2015-02, Consolidation (Topic 810) Amendments to the Consolidation Analysis
 
This update affects the following areas of the consolidation analysis:  limited partnerships and similar entities, evaluation of fees paid to a decision maker or service provider as a variable interest and in determination of the primary beneficiary, effect of related parties on the primary beneficiary determination and for certain investment funds.
 
January 1, 2016 (early adoption permitted)
 
Did not have a significant impact to the consolidated financial statements.
ASU 2015-01, Income Statement - Extraordinary and Unusual Items (Subtopic 225-20)
 
This update eliminates from GAAP the concept of extraordinary items.
 
January 1, 2016 (early adoption permitted)
 
Did not have an impact to the consolidated financial statements.
ASU 2014-16, Derivatives and Hedging (Topic 815) Determining Whether the Host Contract in a Hybrid Financial Instrument Issued in the Form of a Share is More Akin to Debt or Equity
 
This ASU provides additional guidance for evaluating whether conversion rights, redemption rights, voting rights, liquidation rights and dividend payment preferences and other features embedded in a share, including preferred stock, contain embedded derivatives requiring bifurcation.  The update requires that an entity determine the nature of the host contract by considering all stated and implied terms and features in a hybrid instrument.
 
January 1, 2016 (early adoption permitted)
 
Did not have a significant impact to the consolidated financial statements.
ASU 2014-13, Consolidation (Topic 810) Measuring the Financial Assets and the Financial Liabilities of a Consolidated Collateralized Financing Entity
 
This update provides a practical expedient to measure the fair value of the financial assets and financial liabilities of a consolidated collateralized financing entity, which the reporting entity has elected to or is required to measure on a fair value basis.
 
January 1, 2015 (early adoption permitted)
 
The Company early adopted this ASU and applied the guidance to commercial mortgage backed securitization transactions.  See "Commercial Real Estate Investments" footnote for further disclosure.
ASU 2014-11, Repurchase-to-Maturity Transactions, Repurchase Financings, and Disclosure
 
This update makes limited amendments to the guidance in ASC 860 on accounting for certain repurchase agreements.
 
 January 1, 2015
 
Impacted disclosures only and did not have a significant impact to the consolidated financial statements.
ASU 2014-08, Presentation of Financial Statements (Topic 205) and Property, Plant and Equipment (Topic 360) Reporting Discontinued Operations and Disclosures of Disposals of Components of an Entity
 
This ASU raises the threshold for a disposal to be treated as discontinued operations.
 
April 1, 2015
 
Did not have a significant impact to the consolidated financial statements.
ASU 2014-04  Receivables–Troubled Debt Restructurings by Creditors, Reclassification of Residential Real Estate Collateralized Consumer Mortgage Loans upon Foreclosure
 
This update clarifies that an in substance repossession or foreclosure has occurred, and a creditor is considered to have received physical possession of residential real estate property collateralizing a consumer mortgage loan, when the creditor obtains legal title to the property upon completion of a foreclosure or the borrower conveys all interest in the property to the creditor through a deed in lieu of foreclosure or similar arrangement.
 
January 1, 2015
 
Did not have a significant impact to the consolidated financial statements.