Summary of Significant Accounting Policies	6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2016
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies	Note 1. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies Description of Business Heritage Oaks Bancorp (“Bancorp”) is a California corporation organized in 1994 to act as the holding company for Heritage Oaks Bank (the “Bank”), which opened for business in 1983. The Bank, which is the Company’s sole operating subsidiary, operates branches within San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties and has a loan production office in Ventura County. The Bank offers traditional banking products such as checking, savings, money market accounts and certificates of deposit, as well as mortgage, commercial, and consumer loans to customers who are predominately small to medium-sized businesses and to individuals. As such, the Company is subject to a concentration risk associated with its banking operations in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties, and to a lesser degree Ventura County. No one customer accounts for more than 10% of revenue or assets in any period presented and the Company has no assets nor does it generate any revenue from outside of the United States. While the chief decision-makers of the Company monitor the revenue streams of the various products and services, operations are managed and financial performance is evaluated on a Company-wide basis. Operating segments are aggregated into one as operating results for all segments are similar. Accordingly, all of the financial service operations are considered by management to be aggregated in one reportable operating segment. Basis of Presentation The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements of the Company have been prepared in accordance with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, certain information and notes required by accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) for annual financial statements are not included herein. In the opinion of management, all adjustments (which consist solely of normal recurring accruals) considered necessary for a fair presentation of results for the interim periods presented have been included. These interim unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the financial statements and related notes contained in the Company’s 2015 Annual Report filed on Form 10-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 4, 2016; file number 000-25020. The condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Bancorp and its wholly-owned financial subsidiary, Heritage Oaks Bank. All significant inter-company balances and transactions have been eliminated. Operating results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2016 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the year ending December 31, 2016. Investment in Non-Consolidated Subsidiaries The Company accounts for its investment in Heritage Oaks Capital Trust II, Mission Community Capital Trust I, and Santa Lucia Bancorp (CA) Capital Trust, as unconsolidated subsidiaries using the equity method of accounting, as the Company is not the primary beneficiary of the trust. The sole purpose of each of these trusts is for the issuance of trust preferred securities. Reclassifications Certain items in the prior year financial statements were reclassified to conform to the current presentation. Reclassifications had no effect on prior year net income or shareholders’ equity. Use of Estimates in the Preparation of Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements The preparation of condensed consolidated financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”), and general practices within the banking industry require management to make estimates and assumptions. These estimates and assumptions affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities at the date of the condensed consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from these estimates. Significant Accounting Policies The significant accounting policies that the Company applies are detailed in Note 1. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies, of the Company’s 2015 Annual Report filed on Form 10-K. There have been no changes to these policies or their application during the three and six months ended June 30, 2016. Recent Accounting Standards Updates Recent Accounting Guidance Adopted In September, 2015, the FASB issued ASU No. 2015-16, Simplifying the Accounting for Measurement Period Adjustments (Topic 805). This ASU eliminates the requirement to restate prior period financial statements for measurement period adjustments to assets acquired and liabilities assumed in a business combination. The new guidance under this update requires the cumulative impact of measurement period adjustments be recognized in the period the adjustment is determined. This update does not change what constitutes a measurement period adjustment, nor does it change the length of the measurement period. The new standard became effective for interim annual periods beginning after December 15, 2015 and should be applied prospectively to measurement period adjustments that occur after the effective date. This update did not have an impact on the Company’s condensed consolidated financial statements. Recent Accounting Guidance Not Yet Effective In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-13, Financial Instruments – Credit Losses (Topic 326). This update changes the methodology used by financial institutions under current U.S. GAAP to recognize credit losses in the financial statements. Currently, U.S. GAAP requires the use of the incurred loss model, whereby financial institutions recognize in current period earnings, incurred credit losses and those inherent in the financial statements, as of the date of the balance sheet. This guidance results in a new model for estimating the allowance for loan and lease losses, commonly referred to as the Current Expected Credit Loss (“CECL”) model. Under the CECL model, financial institutions are required to estimate future credit losses and recognize those losses in current period earnings. The amendments within the update are effective for fiscal years and all interim periods beginning after December 15, 2019, with early adoption permitted. Upon adoption of the amendments within this Update, the Company will be required to make a cumulative-effect adjustment to the opening balance of retained earnings in the year of adoption. The Company is currently in the process of evaluating the impact the adoption of this update will have on its financial statements. In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-09, Compensation – Stock Compensation: Improvements to Employee Share-Based Payment Accounting (Topic 718). This update simplifies several aspects of accounting for share-based payment transactions, including the income tax consequences, classification of awards as either equity or liabilities, and classification on the statement of cash flows. The new guidance under the update requires all excess tax benefits and tax deficiencies be recognized as income tax expense or benefit on the income statement. The amendments within the update are effective for fiscal years and all interim periods beginning after December 31, 2016, with early adoption permitted. The Company is currently in the process of evaluating the impact the adoption of this update, but does not expect a material impact on the Company’s financial statements. In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842). This update improves the understanding and comparability of lessees’ financial commitments by requiring lease assets and lease liabilities to be recognized on the balance sheet for those leases classified as operating leases under current U.S. GAAP. This ASU requires a lessee to recognize on the balance sheet a lease liability to make lease payments and a right of use asset, representing the right to use the underlying asset, during the term of the lease. This update is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018, including interim periods within those fiscal years, using a modified retrospective approach, with early adoption permitted. The Company is currently in the process of evaluating the impact of the adoption of this update will have on its financial statements. In January 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-01, Recognition and Measurement of Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities (Topic 825). The amendments in this update require that public entities measure equity investments with readily determinable fair values, at fair value, with changes in their fair value recorded through net income. This ASU also clarifies that an entity should evaluate the need for a valuation allowance on a deferred tax asset related to available for sale securities in combination with the entity’s other deferred tax assets. The amendments within the update are effective for fiscal years and all interim periods beginning after December 15, 2017. The Company is currently in the process of evaluating the impact of the adoption of this update, but does not expect a material impact on the Company’s financial statements. In May 2014, the FASB issued ASU No. 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606). This update requires an entity to recognize revenue as performance obligations are met, in order to reflect the transfer of promised goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration the entity is entitled to receive for those goods or services. The following steps are applied in the updated guidance: (1) identify the contract(s) with a customer; (2) identify the performance obligations in the contract; (3) determine the transaction price; (4) allocate the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract; and (5) recognize revenue when, or as, the entity satisfies a performance obligation. The amendments within this update are effective for the quarter ending March 31, 2018. The Company is currently in the process of evaluating the impact of the adoption of this update, but does not expect a material impact on the Company’s financial statements.

Note 1. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Description of Business

Heritage Oaks Bancorp (“Bancorp”) is a California corporation organized in 1994 to act as the holding company for Heritage Oaks Bank (the “Bank”), which opened for business in 1983. The Bank, which is the Company’s sole operating subsidiary, operates branches within San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties and has a loan production office in Ventura County. The Bank offers traditional banking products such as checking, savings, money market accounts and certificates of deposit, as well as mortgage, commercial, and consumer loans to customers who are predominately small to medium-sized businesses and to individuals. As such, the Company is subject to a concentration risk associated with its banking operations in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties, and to a lesser degree Ventura County. No one customer accounts for more than 10% of revenue or assets in any period presented and the Company has no assets nor does it generate any revenue from outside of the United States. While the chief decision-makers of the Company monitor the revenue streams of the various products and services, operations are managed and financial performance is evaluated on a Company-wide basis. Operating segments are aggregated into one as operating results for all segments are similar. Accordingly, all of the financial service operations are considered by management to be aggregated in one reportable operating segment.

Basis of Presentation

The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements of the Company have been prepared in accordance with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, certain information and notes required by accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) for annual financial statements are not included herein. In the opinion of management, all adjustments (which consist solely of normal recurring accruals) considered necessary for a fair presentation of results for the interim periods presented have been included. These interim unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the financial statements and related notes contained in the Company’s 2015 Annual Report filed on Form 10-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 4, 2016; file number 000-25020.

The condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Bancorp and its wholly-owned financial subsidiary, Heritage Oaks Bank. All significant inter-company balances and transactions have been eliminated.

Operating results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2016 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the year ending December 31, 2016.

Investment in Non-Consolidated Subsidiaries

The Company accounts for its investment in Heritage Oaks Capital Trust II, Mission Community Capital Trust I, and Santa Lucia Bancorp (CA) Capital Trust, as unconsolidated subsidiaries using the equity method of accounting, as the Company is not the primary beneficiary of the trust. The sole purpose of each of these trusts is for the issuance of trust preferred securities.

Reclassifications

Certain items in the prior year financial statements were reclassified to conform to the current presentation. Reclassifications had no effect on prior year net income or shareholders’ equity.

Use of Estimates in the Preparation of Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

The preparation of condensed consolidated financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”), and general practices within the banking industry require management to make estimates and assumptions. These estimates and assumptions affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities at the date of the condensed consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from these estimates.

Significant Accounting Policies

The significant accounting policies that the Company applies are detailed in Note 1. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies, of the Company’s 2015 Annual Report filed on Form 10-K. There have been no changes to these policies or their application during the three and six months ended June 30, 2016.

Recent Accounting Standards Updates

Recent Accounting Guidance Adopted

In September, 2015, the FASB issued ASU No. 2015-16, Simplifying the Accounting for Measurement Period Adjustments (Topic 805). This ASU eliminates the requirement to restate prior period financial statements for measurement period adjustments to assets acquired and liabilities assumed in a business combination. The new guidance under this update requires the cumulative impact of measurement period adjustments be recognized in the period the adjustment is determined. This update does not change what constitutes a measurement period adjustment, nor does it change the length of the measurement period. The new standard became effective for interim annual periods beginning after December 15, 2015 and should be applied prospectively to measurement period adjustments that occur after the effective date. This update did not have an impact on the Company’s condensed consolidated financial statements.

Recent Accounting Guidance Not Yet Effective

In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-13, Financial Instruments – Credit Losses (Topic 326). This update changes the methodology used by financial institutions under current U.S. GAAP to recognize credit losses in the financial statements. Currently, U.S. GAAP requires the use of the incurred loss model, whereby financial institutions recognize in current period earnings, incurred credit losses and those inherent in the financial statements, as of the date of the balance sheet. This guidance results in a new model for estimating the allowance for loan and lease losses, commonly referred to as the Current Expected Credit Loss (“CECL”) model. Under the CECL model, financial institutions are required to estimate future credit losses and recognize those losses in current period earnings. The amendments within the update are effective for fiscal years and all interim periods beginning after December 15, 2019, with early adoption permitted. Upon adoption of the amendments within this Update, the Company will be required to make a cumulative-effect adjustment to the opening balance of retained earnings in the year of adoption. The Company is currently in the process of evaluating the impact the adoption of this update will have on its financial statements.

In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-09, Compensation – Stock Compensation: Improvements to Employee Share-Based Payment Accounting (Topic 718). This update simplifies several aspects of accounting for share-based payment transactions, including the income tax consequences, classification of awards as either equity or liabilities, and classification on the statement of cash flows. The new guidance under the update requires all excess tax benefits and tax deficiencies be recognized as income tax expense or benefit on the income statement. The amendments within the update are effective for fiscal years and all interim periods beginning after December 31, 2016, with early adoption permitted. The Company is currently in the process of evaluating the impact the adoption of this update, but does not expect a material impact on the Company’s financial statements.

In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842). This update improves the understanding and comparability of lessees’ financial commitments by requiring lease assets and lease liabilities to be recognized on the balance sheet for those leases classified as operating leases under current U.S. GAAP. This ASU requires a lessee to recognize on the balance sheet a lease liability to make lease payments and a right of use asset, representing the right to use the underlying asset, during the term of the lease. This update is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018, including interim periods within those fiscal years, using a modified retrospective approach, with early adoption permitted. The Company is currently in the process of evaluating the impact of the adoption of this update will have on its financial statements.

In January 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-01, Recognition and Measurement of Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities (Topic 825). The amendments in this update require that public entities measure equity investments with readily determinable fair values, at fair value, with changes in their fair value recorded through net income. This ASU also clarifies that an entity should evaluate the need for a valuation allowance on a deferred tax asset related to available for sale securities in combination with the entity’s other deferred tax assets. The amendments within the update are effective for fiscal years and all interim periods beginning after December 15, 2017. The Company is currently in the process of evaluating the impact of the adoption of this update, but does not expect a material impact on the Company’s financial statements.

In May 2014, the FASB issued ASU No. 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606). This update requires an entity to recognize revenue as performance obligations are met, in order to reflect the transfer of promised goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration the entity is entitled to receive for those goods or services. The following steps are applied in the updated guidance: (1) identify the contract(s) with a customer; (2) identify the performance obligations in the contract; (3) determine the transaction price; (4) allocate the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract; and (5) recognize revenue when, or as, the entity satisfies a performance obligation. The amendments within this update are effective for the quarter ending March 31, 2018. The Company is currently in the process of evaluating the impact of the adoption of this update, but does not expect a material impact on the Company’s financial statements.