Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Policies)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2011

Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Investment Securities

Investment Securities

Transfers of debt securities from the available-for-sale category to the held-to-maturity category are made at fair value at the date of transfer.  The unrealized holding gain or loss at the date of transfer remains in accumulated other comprehensive income and in the carrying value of the held-to-maturity investment security.  Premiums or discounts on investment securities are amortized or accreted as an adjustment of yield using the interest method over the estimated life of the security.  Unrealized holding gains or losses that remain in accumulated other comprehensive income are also amortized or accreted over the estimated life of the security as an adjustment of yield, offsetting the related amortization of the premium or accretion of the discount.

Realized gains and losses are recorded in noninterest income using the specific identification method.

Loans Modified in a Troubled Debt Restructuring

Loans Modified in a Troubled Debt Restructuring

In January 2011, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (the “FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2011-01, “Deferral of the Effective Date of Disclosures about Troubled Debt Restructurings in Update No. 2010-20.”  The provisions of ASU No. 2010-20, “Disclosures about the Credit Quality of Financing Receivables and the Allowance for Credit Losses” include the required disclosure of qualitative information about how financing receivables were modified and quantitative information about the extent and financial effects of modifications made during the period.  The Company is also required to disclose qualitative information about how such modifications are factored into the determination of the allowance for loan and lease losses.  Furthermore, the Company is also required to disclose information about troubled debt restructurings that meet the definition of a troubled debt restructuring within the previous 12 months for which there was a payment default in the current period.  The provisions of ASU No. 2010-20 were originally to be effective for the Company’s reporting period ended March 31, 2011.  However, the amendments in ASU No. 2011-01 deferred the effective date related to these disclosures, enabling creditors to provide such disclosures after the FASB completed their project clarifying the guidance for determining what constitutes a troubled debt restructuring.

In April 2011, the FASB issued ASU No. 2011-02, “A Creditor’s Determination of Whether a Restructuring is a Troubled Debt Restructuring.”  The provisions of ASU No. 2011-02 provide additional guidance related to determining whether a creditor has granted a concession, include factors and examples for creditors to consider in evaluating whether a restructuring results in a delay in payment that is insignificant, prohibit creditors from using the borrower’s effective rate test to evaluate whether a concession has been granted to the borrower, and adds factors for creditors to use in determining whether a borrower is experiencing financial difficulties.  A provision in ASU No. 2011-02 also ends the FASB’s deferral of the additional disclosures related to troubled debt restructurings as required by ASU No. 2010-20.  The Company adopted the provisions of ASU No. 2010-20 retrospectively to all modifications and restructuring activities that have occurred from January 1, 2011.  As of September 30, 2011, the Company identified $0.5 million in loans that were newly considered troubled debt restructurings under the provisions of ASU No. 2011-02.  These loans did not require an Allowance as each was either previously partially charged-off or was adequately secured by collateral.  See Note 3 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for the disclosures required by ASU No. 2010-20.

Goodwill

Goodwill

In December 2010, the FASB issued ASU No. 2010-28, “When to Perform Step 2 of the Goodwill Impairment Test for Reporting Units with Zero or Negative Carrying Amounts.”  Under GAAP, the evaluation of goodwill impairment is a two-step test.  In Step 1, an entity must assess whether the carrying amount of a reporting unit exceeds its fair value.  If it does, an entity must perform Step 2 of the goodwill impairment test to determine whether goodwill has been impaired and to calculate the amount of that impairment.  The provisions of this ASU modify Step 1 of the goodwill impairment test for reporting units with zero or negative carrying amounts.  For those reporting units, an entity is required to perform Step 2 of the goodwill impairment test if it is more likely than not that a goodwill impairment exists.  The Company adopted the provisions of this ASU in preparing the Consolidated Financial Statements for the period ended March 31, 2011.  As of March 31, 2011, the Company had no reporting units with zero or negative carrying amounts or reporting units where there was a reasonable possibility of failing Step 1 of the goodwill impairment test.  As a result, the adoption of this ASU had no impact on the Company’s statements of income and condition.

Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures

Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures

In January 2010, the FASB issued ASU No. 2010-06, “Improving Disclosures About Fair Value Measurements,” which added disclosure requirements about transfers into and out of Levels 1, 2, and 3, clarified existing fair value disclosure requirements about the appropriate level of disaggregation, and clarified that a description of the valuation technique (e.g., market approach, income approach, or cost approach) and inputs used to measure fair value was required for recurring, nonrecurring, and Level 2 and 3 fair value measurements.  The Company adopted these provisions of this ASU in preparing the Consolidated Financial Statements for the period ended March 31, 2010.  This ASU also included a requirement that Level 3 activity about purchases, sales, issuances, and settlements be presented on a gross basis rather than as a net number as previously permitted.  The Company adopted this provision of the ASU in preparing the Consolidated Financial Statements for the period ended March 31, 2011.  As this provision amends only the disclosure requirements related to Level 3 activity, the adoption of this provision of the ASU had no impact on the Company’s statements of income and condition.  See Note 12 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for the disclosures required by this ASU.