Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Policies)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2013

Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Acquired loans

Acquired loans

Bancorp acquired loans in the second quarter of 2013 as part of the acquisition referenced in Note 2 to the unaudited consolidated financial statements.  Acquired loans were initially recorded at their acquisition date fair values.  US GAAP prohibits carryover of the allowance for loan losses as any credit losses in the loans are included in the determination of the fair value of the loans at the acquisition date. Fair values for acquired loans were based on a discounted cash flow methodology that involves assumptions and judgments as to credit risk, default rates, loss severity, collateral values, discount rates, payment speeds, prepayment risk, and liquidity risk at the time of acquisition.

Acquired loans that had evidence of deterioration in credit quality since origination and for which it was probable, at acquisition, that Bancorp will be unable to collect all contractually required payments were specifically identified and analyzed. The excess of cash flows expected at acquisition over the estimated fair value is referred to as accretable discount and will be recognized as interest income over the remaining life of the loan. The difference between contractually required payments at acquisition and the cash flows expected to be collected at acquisition is referred to as non-accretable discount. The non-accretable discount represents estimated future credit losses expected to be incurred over the life of the loan. Subsequent decreases to the expected cash flows require Bancorp to evaluate the need for an allowance for loan losses on these loans.  Subsequent improvements in expected cash flows will result in the reversal of a corresponding amount of the non-accretable discount which Bancorp will reclassify as an accretable discount that will be recognized into interest income over the remaining life of the loan using the interest method. Bancorp’s evaluation of the amount of future cash flows that it expects to collect is performed in a similar manner as that used to determine its allowance for loan losses. Charge-offs of the principal amount on credit-impaired acquired loans would be first applied to non-accretable discount.

For acquired loans that are not deemed impaired at acquisition, the methods used to estimate the required allowance for loan losses for acquired loans is the same for originated loans.