16. Recent Accounting Pronouncements

Accounting Standards Adopted in 2018

In March 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-05, “Income Taxes (Topic 740): Amendments to SEC Paragraphs Pursuant to SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 118.” The ASU amends Topic 740 to incorporate SEC guidance issued in its Staff Bulletin No. 118 (SAB 118). SAB 118 addressed the application of generally accepted accounting principles in situations when a registrant does not have the necessary information available, prepared or analyzed (including computations) in reasonable detail to complete the accounting for certain income tax effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The amendments in this update were effective upon issuance, at which time the Company adopted the standard. Adoption of this standard did not have a material impact on the Company’s financial condition or results of operations.

In August 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-12, “Derivatives and Hedging (Topic 815): Targeted Improvements to Accounting for Hedging Activities,” with the objective of improving financial reporting of hedging relationships to better portray the economic results of an entity’s risk management activities in its financial statements. The update provides changes to both the designation and measurement guidance for qualifying hedging relationships and the presentation of hedge results. The amendments in this update are effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018, and interim periods within those fiscal years. Early application is permitted in any interim period after issuance of the update. All transition requirements and elections are to be applied to hedging relationships existing on the date of adoption, and the effect of the adoption should be reflected as of the beginning of the fiscal year of adoption. The Company early adopted this standard effective January 1, 2018 and has made certain adjustments to its existing designation documentation for active hedging relationships in order to take advantage of specific provisions in the new guidance and to fully align its documentation with the ASU. The adoption of this standard did not have a material impact on its financial condition or results of operations. See further discussion in Note 6 – Derivatives.

In March 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-07, “Compensation – Retirement Benefits (Topic 715): Improving the Presentation of Net Periodic Pension Cost and Net Periodic Postretirement Benefit Costs,” to improve the presentation of net periodic pension cost and net periodic postretirement benefit cost. The amendments require that an employer report the service cost component in the same line item or items as other compensation costs arising from services rendered by the pertinent employees during the period. The other components of net benefit cost are required to be presented in the income statement separately from the service cost component and outside a subtotal of income from operations, if one is presented. The amendments also allow only the service cost component to be eligible for capitalization when applicable. These amendments are effective for public business entities for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2017, including interim periods within those annual periods. Disclosures of the nature of and reason for the change in accounting principle are required in the first interim and annual periods of adoption. The Company adopted the standard effective January 1, 2018 and the amendments were applied retrospectively for the presentation of the service cost component and the other components of net periodic pension and postretirement benefit costs in the statement of income. Refer to Note 12 – Retirement Plans – for detail on the components of net periodic pension and post-retirement benefit costs that were reclassified for each reporting period. The provisions of this update apply only to presentation and therefore did not have a material impact on the Company’s financial condition or results of operations.

In May 2014, the FASB issued ASU 2014-09, “Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606),” affecting any entity that enters into contracts with customers to transfer goods or services or enters into contracts for the transfer of nonfinancial assets unless those contracts are within the scope of other standards. The core principle of this standard is that an entity should recognize revenue to depict the transfer of promised goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the entity expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services. Most revenue associated with financial instruments, including interest and loan origination fees, is outside the scope of the guidance. Gains and losses on investment securities, derivatives, and sales of financial instruments are also excluded from the scope. Subsequent to issuance of the revenue recognition guidance, the FASB has issued several updates that deferred by one year the effective date for revenue recognition guidance; clarified its guidance for performing the principal-versus-agent analysis; clarified guidance for identifying performance obligations allowing entities to ignore immaterial promised goods and services in the context of a contract with a customer and other clarifying guidance and technical corrections. Entities could elect to adopt the guidance either on a full or modified retrospective basis. The standard was effective and the Company adopted this guidance on January 1, 2018, using the modified retrospective approach. The Company inventoried and evaluated its contracts with customers for compliance with the standard. The Company did not identify material changes to the timing of revenue recognition and the adoption of this guidance did not have a material impact on its financial condition or results of operations. See Note 8 - Revenue Recognition for additional information regarding the implementation of this standard.

Additionally, the following ASUs were adopted by the Company on January 1, 2018, but did not have a significant impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements:

ASU 2018-03,Technical Corrections and Improvements to Financial Instruments - Overall (Subtopic 825-10): Recognition and Measurement of Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities;

ASU 2017-09, Compensation – Stock Compensation (Topic 718): Scope of Modification Accounting;

ASU 2017-01, Business Combinations (Topic 805): Clarifying the Definition of a Business;

ASU 2016-16, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Intra-Entity Transfers of Assets Other than Inventory;

ASU 2016-15, Statement of Cash Flows (Topic 230): Classification of Certain Cash Receipts and Cash Payments; and

ASU 2016-01, Financial Instruments – Overall (Subtopic 825-10): Recognition and Measurement of Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities

Issued but Not Yet Adopted Accounting Standards

In July 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-09, “Codification Improvements,” that clarifies certain topics within the Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) in an effort to correct unintended application of guidance. The amendments in this Update affect a wide variety of Topics in the Codification, some topics of which are applicable to the Company. The amendments apply to all reporting entities within the scope of the affected accounting guidance. The transition and effective date guidance is based on the facts and circumstances of each amendment, with some of the amendments effective upon issuance of this Update and with other transition guidance effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2018 for public business entities. The Company is currently assessing the impact of adoption of this guidance, but does not expect it to have a material impact upon its financial condition or results of operations.

In June 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-07, “Compensation – Stock Compensation – (Topic 718): Improvements to Nonemployee Share-Based Payment Accounting,” to expand the scope of Topic 718 to include share-based payment transactions for acquiring goods and services from nonemployees. The amendments specify that Topic 718 applies to all share-based payment transactions in which a grantor acquires good and services to be used or consumed in a grantor’s own operations by issuing share-based payment awards. The amendments also clarify that Topic 718 does not apply to share-based payments used to effectively provide financing to the issuer or awards granted in conjunction with the selling of goods or services to customers as part of a contract accounted for under Topic 606, “Revenue from Contracts with Customers.” The amendments in this Update are effective for public business entities for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018, including interim periods within that fiscal year. Early adoption is permitted, but no earlier than an entity’s adoption date of Topic 606. The Company does not expect the adoption of this guidance to have a material impact upon its financial condition or results of operations.

In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-13, “Financial Instruments – Credits Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments,” to improve financial reporting by requiring timelier recording of credit losses on loans and other financial instruments held by financial institutions and other organizations. The ASU, more commonly referred to as Current Expected Credit Losses, or CECL, 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. Financial institutions and other organizations will now use forward-looking information to better inform their credit loss estimates. Many of the loss estimation techniques currently applied will still be permitted, although the inputs to those techniques will change to reflect the full amount of expected credit losses. Organizations will continue to use judgment to determine which loss estimation method is appropriate for their circumstances. In addition, the ASU amends the accounting for credit losses on debt securities and purchased financial assets with credit deterioration. The ASU is effective for SEC filers for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2019, with a cumulative-effect adjustment to retained earnings as of the beginning of the year of adoption. Early application is permitted for all organizations for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2018. The Company is not planning to early adopt this guidance. The Company has engaged third party consultants and formed cross-functional working groups comprised of individuals from various areas including credit, finance, risk management and information technology. Five work streams have been created to develop the expected credit loss models; execute system implementation; complete balance sheet scoping; ensure the design of effective internal controls surrounding new processes; and provide executive oversight of the project. Balance sheet scoping is largely complete. While the Company has not yet quantified the financial impact of adoption, the expectation is that application of this guidance will result in an increase in the allowance for loan losses given the change in methodology from covering losses inherent in the portfolio to covering losses over the remaining expected life of the portfolio, and the reclassification of nonaccretable difference on purchased credit impaired loans to allowance (offset by an increase in the carrying value of the related loans). Application of the guidance is also expected to result in the establishment of an allowance for credit loss on held to maturity debt securities. The amount of the increase in these allowances will be impacted by the portfolio composition and quality at the adoption date as well as economic conditions and forecasts at that time.

In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, “Leases (Topic 842),” to increase transparency and comparability among organizations by recognizing lease assets and lease liabilities on the balance sheet and disclosing key information about leasing arrangements. With the exception of short-term leases, lessees will be required to recognize a lease liability representing the lessee’s obligation to make lease payments arising from a lease, measured on a discounted basis, and a right-of-use asset representing the lessee’s right to use, or control the use of, a specified asset for the lease term. Consequently, lessees will no longer be able to utilize leases as a source of off-balance sheet financing. Lessor accounting is largely unchanged under the new guidance, except for clarification of the definition of initial direct costs which may impact the timing of recognition of those costs. Subsequent to the issuance of this Update, the FASB issued three additional ASUs that provide codification improvements and certain transition elections, including ASU 2018-11, which permits an additional transition method whereby an entity may elect to record a cumulative-effect adjustment to the opening balance of retained earnings in the period of adoption. Consequently, the entity’s reporting for the comparative periods presented in the financial statements in which the entity adopts the new lease requirements would continue to be in accordance with current GAAP (Topic 840), including disclosures. The Company plans to elect this transition method. Public business entities are required to apply the amendments for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018, including interim periods within those fiscal years. The Company has preliminarily determined the practical expedients expected to be applied and continues its review of existing service contracts that may include embedded leases. The Company has upgraded its existing third-party leasing software and has begun implementation of the Update, with a targeted completion date in the fourth quarter of 2018. The Company expects a gross-up of its Consolidated Balance Sheets as a result of recognizing lease liabilities and right of use assets; the extent of such is under evaluation. The Company does not expect material changes to its consolidated results of operations as a result of the application of this guidance.