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New Accounting Standards

February 2016,

the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Accounting Standards Update (ASU)

2016

02,

Leases (Topic

842

The amendments in the ASU create

Topic

842,

Leases

, and supersede the lease requirements in

Topic

840,

Leases

. The objective of this ASU is to establish the principles that lessees and lessors shall apply to report useful information to users of financial statements about the amount, timing, and uncertainty of cash flows arising from a lease. The main difference between previous GAAP and this ASU is the recognition of lease assets and lease liabilities by lessees for those leases classified as operating leases under previous GAAP. The amendment requires a lessee to recognize in the statement of financial position a liability to make lease payments (the lease liability) and the right-of-use asset representing its right to use the underlying asset for the lease term. The accounting applied by a lessor is largely unchanged from that applied under previous GAAP. In transition, lessees and lessors are required to recognize and measure leases at the beginning of the earliest period presented using a modified retrospective approach. The modified retrospective approach includes a number of optional practical expedients that entities

may

elect to apply that will, in effect, continue to account for leases that commence before the effective date in accordance with previous GAAP unless the lease is modified. As entities started to implement the new leases standard, many preparers were encountering some unanticipated costs and complexities associated with the modified retrospective transition method, particularly the comparative period reporting requirements. In response to these issues, the FASB in

July

2018

issued ASU

2018

11.

The amendments in this ASU provide lessors with an additional (and optional) transition method to adopt the new leases standard. Under this new transition method, an entity initially applies the new leases standard at the adoption date and recognizes a cumulative-effect adjustment to the opening balance of retained earnings in the period of adoption. The amendments in these ASU’s, for public business entities, are effective for fiscal years beginning after

December 15, 2018,

including interim periods within those fiscal years. The adoption of these ASU’s in the

first

quarter of

2019

not

anticipated to have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

June 2016,

the FASB issued ASU

2016

13,

Financial Instruments-Credit Losses (Topic

326

): Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments.

The amendments in this ASU affect all entities that measure credit losses on financial instruments including loans, debt securities, trade receivables, net investments in leases, off-balance sheet credit exposures, reinsurance receivables, and any other financial asset that has a contractual right to receive cash that is

not

specifically excluded. The main objective of this ASU is to provide financial statement users with more decision-useful information about the expected credit losses on financial instruments and other commitments to extend credit held by a reporting entity at each reporting date. To achieve this objective, the amendments in this ASU replace the incurred loss impairment methodology required in current GAAP with a methodology that reflects expected credit losses that requires consideration of a broader range of reasonable and supportable information to estimate credit losses. The amendments in this ASU will affect entities to varying degrees depending on the credit quality of the assets held by the entity, the duration of the assets held, and how the entity applies the current incurred loss methodology. The amendments in this ASU, for public business entities that are filers with the Securities and Exchange Commission, are effective for fiscal years beginning after

December 15, 2019,

including interim periods within those annual periods. All entities

may

adopt the amendments in the ASU early as of the fiscal years beginning after

December 15, 2018,

including interim periods within those fiscal years. Amendments should be applied using a modified retrospective transition method by means of a cumulative-effect adjustment to equity as of the beginning of the period in which the guidance is adopted. Management has accumulated the charge off information necessary to calculate the appropriate life of loan loss percentages for the various loan categories, has identified several key metrics to help identify and project anticipated changes in the credit quality of our loan portfolio upon enactment, and is in the process of evaluating the determination of potential qualitative reserve amounts and the impact that the adoption of this ASU in the

first

quarter of

2020

will have on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

March 2017,

the FASB issued ASU

2017

08,

Receivables – Nonrefundable Fees and Other Costs (Subtopic

310

): Premium Amortization on Purchased Callable Debt Securities.

The amendments in this ASU shorten the amortization period for certain callable debt securities held at a premium. Specifically, the amendments require the premium to be amortized to the earliest call date. The amendments do

not

require an accounting change for securities held at a discount, as discounts continue to be amortized to maturity. This ASU is intended to more closely align the amortization period of premiums and discounts to expectations incorporated in market pricing on the underlying securities. In most cases, market participants price securities to the call date that produces the worst yield when the coupon is above current market rates and price securities to maturity when the coupon is below market rates. As a result, the amendments more closely align interest income recorded on bonds held at a premium or a discount with the economics of the underlying instrument. This ASU is intended to reduce diversity in practice and is effective for public business entities for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after

December 15, 2018

with early adoption permitted. Upon adoption, the amendments should be applied using a modified retrospective basis through a cumulative-effect adjustment directly to retained earnings as of the beginning of the period of adoption. Additionally, in the period of adoption, an entity should provide disclosures about a change in accounting principles. The adoption of this ASU in the

first

quarter of

2019

not

anticipated to have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

August 2018,

the FASB issued ASU

2018

13,

Fair Value Measurement (Topic

820

), Disclo

ure Framework – Changes to the Disclosure Requirements for Fair Value Measurement.

The Amendments in this ASU apply to all entities that are required, under existing GAAP, to make disclosures about recurring or nonrecurring fair value measurements and modify the disclosure requirements on fair value measurements in

Topic

820,

Fair Value Measurement

, including the consideration of costs and benefits. The ASU removed, modified, and added various disclosure requirements in Topic

820.

The amendments also eliminate

at a minimum

from the phrase

an entity shall disclose at a minimum

to promote the appropriate exercise of discretion by entities when considering fair value measurement disclosures and to clarify that materiality is an appropriate consideration of entities and their auditor when evaluating disclosure requirements. The amendments in the ASU are effective for all entities for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after

December 15, 2019.

An entity is permitted to early adopt the implementation of any removed or modified disclosures upon issuance of the ASU and delay adoption of the additional disclosures until their effective date. The Company has

not

opted to early adopt any portion of this ASU and the adoption in the

first

quarter of

2020

not

anticipated to have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.