2.4.0.8109 - Disclosure - DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS AND BASIS OF PRESENTATIONtruefalsefalse1falsefalsefalseP01_01_2013To06_30_2013http://www.sec.gov/CIK0001493552duration2013-01-01T00:00:002013-06-30T00:00:001true1us-gaap_AccountingPoliciesAbstractus-gaap_truenadurationfalsefalsefalsefalsefalsefalsefalsefalse1falsefalsefalse00falsefalsefalsexbrli:stringItemTypestringfalse02false2us-gaap_BusinessDescriptionAndBasisOfPresentationTextBlockus-gaap_truenadurationfalsefalsefalsefalsefalsefalsefalsefalseverboseLabel1falsefalsefalse00 <table border="0" style="clear:both;width:100%; table-layout:fixed;"> <tr> <td></td> </tr> </table> <div style="clear:both; FONT-FAMILY:Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 10pt;MARGIN: 0pt 0px; FONT: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif "> <div style="clear:both; FONT-FAMILY:Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 10pt;MARGIN: 0pt 0px; FONT: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif" align="justify"><strong>NOTE 1 – DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION</strong></div> <div style="clear:both; FONT-FAMILY:Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><font size="2"> </font></div> <div style="clear:both; FONT-FAMILY:Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 10pt;MARGIN: 0pt 0px; FONT: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif" align="justify"> <table style="clear:both;MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; FONT: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <tr style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top"> <td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; WIDTH: 3%; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: top; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px"> <div><strong>(a)</strong></div> </td> <td style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"> <div><strong><em>Description of Business</em></strong></div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="clear:both; FONT-FAMILY:Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><font size="2"> </font></div> <div style="clear:both; FONT-FAMILY:Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 10pt;MARGIN: 0pt 0px; FONT: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif" align="justify">Naugatuck Valley Financial Corporation (“Naugatuck Valley Financial” or the “Company”) is a stock savings and loan holding company incorporated in the State of Maryland. The Company is primarily engaged in the business of planning, directing and coordinating the business activities of its wholly-owned subsidiary bank, Naugatuck Valley Savings and Loan (“Naugatuck Valley Savings” or the “Bank”). The Company became the holding company for the Bank effective June 29, 2011.</div> <div style="clear:both; FONT-FAMILY:Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><font size="2"> </font></div> <div style="clear:both; FONT-FAMILY:Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 10pt;MARGIN: 0pt 0px; FONT: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif" align="justify">Naugatuck Valley Savings is a federally chartered stock savings association and has served its customers in Connecticut since 1922. The Bank operates as a community-oriented financial institution dedicated to serving the financial services needs of consumers and businesses with a variety of deposit and lending products from its full service banking offices in the Greater Naugatuck Valley region of southwestern Connecticut. The Bank attracts deposits from the general public and uses those funds to originate one-to-four family, multi-family and commercial real estate, construction, commercial business and consumer loans.</div> <div style="clear:both; FONT-FAMILY:Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><font size="2"> </font></div> <div style="clear:both; FONT-FAMILY:Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 10pt;MARGIN: 0pt 0px; FONT: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"> Naugatuck Valley Savings has two wholly owned subsidiaries, Naugatuck Valley Mortgage Servicing Corporation and Church Street OREO One, LLC. Naugatuck Valley Mortgage Servicing Corporation qualifies and operates as a passive investment company pursuant to Connecticut regulation. Church Street OREO One, LLC was established in February 2013 to hold properties acquired through foreclosure <font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent">as well as from nonjudicial proceedings</font>.</div> <div style="clear:both; FONT-FAMILY:Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><font size="2"> </font></div> <div style="clear:both; FONT-FAMILY:Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 10pt;MARGIN: 0pt 0px; FONT: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif" align="justify"> <table style="clear:both;MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; FONT: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <tr style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top"> <td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; WIDTH: 3%; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: top; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px"> <div><strong><em>(b)</em></strong></div> </td> <td style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"> <div><strong><em>Basis of Presentation</em></strong></div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="clear:both; FONT-FAMILY:Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 10pt;MARGIN: 0pt 0px; FONT: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif" align="justify">  </div> <div style="clear:both; FONT-FAMILY:Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 10pt;MARGIN: 0pt 0px; FONT: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif" align="justify">The accompanying consolidated interim financial statements are unaudited and include the accounts of the Company, the Bank, and the Bank’s wholly owned subsidiaries, Naugatuck Valley Mortgage Servicing Corporation and Church Street OREO One, LLC. The consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) for interim financial information and with the instructions to Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) Form 10-Q and Article 8 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, they do not include all the information and footnotes required by GAAP for complete financial statements. These consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the December 31, 2012 audited Consolidated Financial Statements and the accompanying Notes included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K. All significant intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. These consolidated financial statements reflect, in the opinion of management, all adjustments, consisting only of normal recurring adjustments, necessary for a fair presentation of the Company’s financial position and the results of its operations and its cash flows at the dates and for the periods presented.</div> <div style="clear:both; FONT-FAMILY:Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><font size="2"> </font></div> <div style="clear:both; FONT-FAMILY:Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 10pt;MARGIN: 0pt 0px; FONT: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif" align="justify">In preparing the consolidated financial statements, management makes estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities as of the date of the statement of condition, and the reported amounts of income and expenses for the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Material estimates that are particularly susceptible to significant change in the near-term relate to the determination of the allowance for loan losses, the valuation of real estate acquired in connection with foreclosure or in satisfaction of loans, deferred income taxes and the valuation of and the evaluation for other than temporary impairment (“OTTI”) on investment securities. While management uses available information to recognize losses and properly value these assets, future adjustments may be necessary based on changes in economic conditions both in Connecticut and nationally.</div> <div style="clear:both; FONT-FAMILY:Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><font size="2"> </font></div> <div style="clear:both; FONT-FAMILY:Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 10pt;MARGIN: 0pt 0px; FONT: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"> The Company’s only business segment is Community Banking. This segment represented all the revenues, income and assets of the consolidated Company and therefore, is the only reported segment as defined by FASB ASC 820, <em>Segment Reporting</em>.</div> <div style="clear:both; FONT-FAMILY:Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><font size="2"> </font></div> <div style="clear:both; FONT-FAMILY:Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 10pt;MARGIN: 0pt 0px; FONT: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif" align="justify">Management has evaluated subsequent events for potential recognition or disclosure in the consolidated financial statements. No subsequent events were identified that would have required a change to the consolidated financial statements or disclosure in the notes to the consolidated financial statements.</div> <div style="clear:both; FONT-FAMILY:Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><font size="2"> </font></div> <div style="clear:both; FONT-FAMILY:Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 10pt;MARGIN: 0pt 0px; FONT: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif" align="justify">Operating results for the six months ended June 30, 2013 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the year ending December 31, 2013.</div> <div style="clear:both; FONT-FAMILY:Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 10pt;MARGIN: 0pt 0px; FONT: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif" align="justify"> </div> <div style="clear:both; FONT-FAMILY:Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 10pt;MARGIN: 0pt 0px; FONT: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif" align="justify">Certain reclassifications have been made to the June 30, 2012 amounts to conform with the June 30, 2013 consolidated financial statement presentation. These reclassifications only changed the reporting categories and did not affect the Company’s results of operations or financial position. </div> <div style="clear:both; FONT-FAMILY:Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 10pt;TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; MARGIN: 0pt 0px 0pt 0.25in; FONT: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">  </div> <div style="clear:both; FONT-FAMILY:Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 10pt;MARGIN: 0pt 0px; FONT: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif" align="justify"> <table style="clear:both;MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; FONT: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <tr style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top"> <td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; WIDTH: 3%; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: top; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px"> <div><strong><em>(c)</em></strong></div> </td> <td> <div><strong><em>Significant Accounting Policies</em></strong></div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="clear:both; FONT-FAMILY:Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><font size="2"> </font></div> <div style="clear:both; FONT-FAMILY:Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 10pt;MARGIN: 0pt 0px; FONT: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif" align="justify">The significant accounting policies used in preparation of our consolidated financial statements are disclosed in our 2012 Annual Report on Form 10-K. There have not been any material changes in our significant accounting policies compared with those contained in our Form 10-K disclosure for the year ended December 31, 2012, except for the addition of the policy concerning transfers of financial assets shown below. <div style="clear:both; FONT-FAMILY:Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 10pt;TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0pt 0px; FONT: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">  </div> <div style="clear:both; FONT-FAMILY:Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 10pt;TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0pt 0px; FONT: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"> <em>Transfers of financial assets</em></div> <div style="clear:both; FONT-FAMILY:Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 10pt;TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0pt 0px; FONT: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">  </div> <div style="clear:both; FONT-FAMILY:Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 10pt;TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0pt 0px; FONT: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"> Transfers of financial assets are accounted for as sales when control over the assets has been surrendered. Control over transferred assets is deemed to be surrendered when (1) the assets have been isolated from the Company –put presumptively beyond the reach of the transferor and its creditors, even in bankruptcy or other receivership, (2) the transferee obtains the right (free of conditions that constrain it from taking advantage of that right) to pledge or exchange the transferred assets and no condition both constrains the transferee from taking advantage of that right and provides more than a trivial benefit for the transferor, and (3) the transferor does not maintain effective control over the transferred assets through either (a) an agreement that both entitles and obligates the transferor to repurchase or redeem the assets before maturity of (b) the ability to unilaterally cause the holder to return specific assets, other than through a cleanup call.</div> <div style="clear:both; FONT-FAMILY:Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 10pt;TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0pt 0px; FONT: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">  </div> <div style="clear:both; FONT-FAMILY:Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 10pt;TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0pt 0px; FONT: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"> <table style="clear:both;WIDTH: 100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: #f0f0f0 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; WIDTH: 3%; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; VERTICAL-ALIGN: top; BORDER-TOP: #f0f0f0 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: #f0f0f0 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0in" width="24"> <div style="clear:both;LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <strong><em><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> (d)</font></em></strong><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></font></div> </td> <td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #f0f0f0; BORDER-LEFT: #f0f0f0; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #f0f0f0; BORDER-RIGHT: #f0f0f0; PADDING-TOP: 0in" valign="top"> <div style="clear:both;TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <strong><em><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements</font></em></strong><font style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></font></div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div style="clear:both; FONT-FAMILY:Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 10pt;MARGIN: 0pt 0px; FONT: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif" align="justify"> </div> <div style="clear:both; FONT-FAMILY:Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 10pt;MARGIN: 0pt 0px; FONT: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif" align="justify"><em>Reporting of Amounts Reclassified Out of Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income</em>: In February 2013, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update No. 2013-02. This update requires entities to provide information about the amounts reclassified out of accumulated other comprehensive income by component. In addition, entities are required to present, either on the face of the statement where net income is presented or in the notes, significant amounts reclassified out of accumulated other comprehensive income by the respective line items of net income. The Company adopted this update during the quarter ended March 31, 2013. The adoption of this guidance did not have a material impact on the Company's consolidated financial statements.</div> <div style="clear:both; FONT-FAMILY:Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><font size="2"> </font></div> <div style="clear:both; FONT-FAMILY:Times New Roman;FONT-SIZE: 10pt;MARGIN: 0pt 0px; FONT: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif" align="justify"><em>Balance Sheet — Disclosures about Offsetting Assets and Liabilities:</em> In December 2011, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update No. 2011-11, which requires an entity to disclose both gross and net information about financial instruments, such as sales and repurchase agreements and reverse sale and repurchase agreements and securities borrowing/lending arrangements, and derivative instruments that are eligible for offset in the statement of financial position and/or subject to a master netting arrangement or similar agreement. This update became effective in the quarter ended March 31, 2013. The adoption of this guidance did not have a material impact on the Company's consolidated financial statements.</div> </div> falsefalsefalsenonnum:textBlockItemTypenaThe entire disclosure for the business description and basis of presentation concepts. Business description describes the nature and type of organization including but not limited to organizational structure as may be applicable to holding companies, parent and subsidiary relationships, business divisions, business units, business segments, affiliates and information about significant ownership of the reporting entity. Basis of presentation describes the underlying basis used to prepare the financial statements (for example, US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, Other Comprehensive Basis of Accounting, IFRS).No definition available.false0falseDESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS AND BASIS OF PRESENTATIONUnKnownUnKnownUnKnownUnKnowntruefalsefalseSheethttp://www.nvsl.com/role/DescriptionOfBusinessAndBasisOfPresentation12