Basis of Presentation and Consolidation	3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2015
Basis of Presentation and Consolidation
Basis of Presentation and Consolidation	(1)Basis of Presentation and Consolidation General information Coastway Bancorp, Inc., a Maryland chartered stock corporation (“Company” or “Corporation”), was formed to serve as the holding company for Coastway Community Bank. Coastway Community Bank (the “Bank”) is a Rhode Island-chartered savings bank. The Bank provides a variety of financial services to individuals and small businesses throughout Rhode Island. Its primary deposit products are savings, demand, money market and term certificate accounts and its primary lending products are one-to four-family residential mortgage loans, home equity loans and lines of credit, commercial real estate and SBA loans. Prior to January 14, 2014, the Bank was 100% owned by Coastway Bancorp, LLC (the “LLC”) and the LLC was 100% owned by Coastway Bancorp, MHC (“MHC”). Stock Conversion On August 22, 2013, the Board of Directors of the MHC, LLC and the Bank adopted the Plan of Conversion and Reorganization (“Conversion”) to convert the MHC from the mutual holding company form of organization to a stock holding company form of organization with a new Maryland-chartered stock corporation, Coastway Bancorp, Inc. On January 14, 2014, the Conversion was completed and Coastway Bancorp, Inc. became the parent holding company for Coastway Community Bank. A total of 4,827,125 shares of Corporation common stock were sold to depositors and to the general public, including those issued to the Corporation’s tax-qualified employee benefit plans, at $10.00 per share through which the Corporation received net offering proceeds of approximately $46.3 million. Also, on January 14, 2014, the Corporation contributed $300,000 in cash and 122,054 shares of common stock to Coastway Cares Charitable Foundation II which together totaled 3.15% of the gross proceeds of the offering totaling $1.5 million which was recorded as a component of non-interest expense during the three months ended March 31, 2014. The total number of shares of common stock outstanding upon completion of the Conversion was 4,949,179 shares. Earnings (loss) per share is not presented herein for the three months ended March 31, 2014 as common stock had not been outstanding during the entire three months ended March 31, 2014. At March 31, 2015, there are no common stock equivalents. Basis of Presentation The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Corporation and its subsidiaries. All significant intercompany transactions have been eliminated. The unaudited consolidated financial statements of the Corporation presented herein have been prepared in accordance with U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (“GAAP”) for interim financial information and pursuant to the rules of the SEC for quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and Article 8 of Regulation S-X and do not include all of the information and note disclosures required by GAAP for a complete set of financial statements. In the opinion of management, all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring adjustments) and disclosures necessary for the fair presentation of the accompanying consolidated financial statements have been included. Interim results are not necessarily reflective of the results of the entire year or any other period. The results of operations for interim periods are not necessarily indicative of results for the full year. The accompanying unaudited financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements and notes thereto for the year ended December 31, 2014, included in the Corporation’s annual report on Form 10-K. In preparing the consolidated financial statements, management is required to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities as of the date of the balance sheet and reported amounts of revenues and expenses during 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 deferred tax assets and the valuation of real estate held for sale. Recent Accounting Pronouncements As an “emerging growth company” as defined in Title 1 of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, the Corporation has elected to use the extended transition period to delay the adoption of new or reissued accounting pronouncements applicable to public companies until such pronouncements are made applicable to private companies. As of March 31, 2015, there is no significant difference in the comparability of the financial statements as a result of this extended transition period. In January 2014, the FASB issued ASU 2014-04, Receivables-Troubled Debt Restructurings by Creditors (Subtopic 310-40) which is intended to reduce diversity by clarifying when an in substance repossession or foreclosure occurs, that is, when a creditor should be considered to have received physical possession of residential real estate property collateralizing a consumer mortgage loan such that the loan receivable should be derecognized and the real estate property recognized. The ASU also provides guidance on disclosures of the amount of foreclosed residential real estate properties and of the recorded investment in consumer mortgage loans that are in process of foreclosure. Under the extended transition period for an emerging growth company, the Corporation will adopt this standard for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2014 and interim periods within annual periods beginning after December 15, 2015. Management believes that the adoption of this standard will not have a material impact on the Company’s results of operations or financial condition.

(1)Basis of Presentation and Consolidation

General information

Coastway Bancorp, Inc., a Maryland chartered stock corporation (“Company” or “Corporation”), was formed to serve as the holding company for Coastway Community Bank. Coastway Community Bank (the “Bank”) is a Rhode Island-chartered savings bank. The Bank provides a variety of financial services to individuals and small businesses throughout Rhode Island. Its primary deposit products are savings, demand, money market and term certificate accounts and its primary lending products are one-to four-family residential mortgage loans, home equity loans and lines of credit, commercial real estate and SBA loans. Prior to January 14, 2014, the Bank was 100% owned by Coastway Bancorp, LLC (the “LLC”) and the LLC was 100% owned by Coastway Bancorp, MHC (“MHC”).

Stock Conversion

On August 22, 2013, the Board of Directors of the MHC, LLC and the Bank adopted the Plan of Conversion and Reorganization (“Conversion”) to convert the MHC from the mutual holding company form of organization to a stock holding company form of organization with a new Maryland-chartered stock corporation, Coastway Bancorp, Inc.

On January 14, 2014, the Conversion was completed and Coastway Bancorp, Inc. became the parent holding company for Coastway Community Bank. A total of 4,827,125 shares of Corporation common stock were sold to depositors and to the general public, including those issued to the Corporation’s tax-qualified employee benefit plans, at $10.00 per share through which the Corporation received net offering proceeds of approximately $46.3 million. Also, on January 14, 2014, the Corporation contributed $300,000 in cash and 122,054 shares of common stock to Coastway Cares Charitable Foundation II which together totaled 3.15% of the gross proceeds of the offering totaling $1.5 million which was recorded as a component of non-interest expense during the three months ended March 31, 2014. The total number of shares of common stock outstanding upon completion of the Conversion was 4,949,179 shares.

Earnings (loss) per share is not presented herein for the three months ended March 31, 2014 as common stock had not been outstanding during the entire three months ended March 31, 2014. At March 31, 2015, there are no common stock equivalents.

Basis of Presentation

The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Corporation and its subsidiaries. All significant intercompany transactions have been eliminated.

The unaudited consolidated financial statements of the Corporation presented herein have been prepared in accordance with U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (“GAAP”) for interim financial information and pursuant to the rules of the SEC for quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and Article 8 of Regulation S-X and do not include all of the information and note disclosures required by GAAP for a complete set of financial statements. In the opinion of management, all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring adjustments) and disclosures necessary for the fair presentation of the accompanying consolidated financial statements have been included. Interim results are not necessarily reflective of the results of the entire year or any other period. The results of operations for interim periods are not necessarily indicative of results for the full year. The accompanying unaudited financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements and notes thereto for the year ended December 31, 2014, included in the Corporation’s annual report on Form 10-K.

In preparing the consolidated financial statements, management is required to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities as of the date of the balance sheet and reported amounts of revenues and expenses during 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 deferred tax assets and the valuation of real estate held for sale.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

As an “emerging growth company” as defined in Title 1 of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, the Corporation has elected to use the extended transition period to delay the adoption of new or reissued accounting pronouncements applicable to public companies until such pronouncements are made applicable to private companies. As of March 31, 2015, there is no significant difference in the comparability of the financial statements as a result of this extended transition period.

In January 2014, the FASB issued ASU 2014-04, Receivables-Troubled Debt Restructurings by Creditors (Subtopic 310-40) which is intended to reduce diversity by clarifying when an in substance repossession or foreclosure occurs, that is, when a creditor should be considered to have received physical possession of residential real estate property collateralizing a consumer mortgage loan such that the loan receivable should be derecognized and the real estate property recognized. The ASU also provides guidance on disclosures of the amount of foreclosed residential real estate properties and of the recorded investment in consumer mortgage loans that are in process of foreclosure. Under the extended transition period for an emerging growth company, the Corporation will adopt this standard for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2014 and interim periods within annual periods beginning after December 15, 2015. Management believes that the adoption of this standard will not have a material impact on the Company’s results of operations or financial condition.