SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Seacoast Banking Corporation of Florida

8-K – 03/14/05

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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, DC  20549


______________________________


FORM 8-K


CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934




Date of report (Date of earliest event reported)

March 8, 2005



SEACOAST BANKING CORPORATION OF FLORIDA

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)



Not Applicable

1-13660

59-2260678

(State or Other Jurisdiction

of Incorporation)

(Commission

File Number

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)



815 Colorado Avenue, Stuart, FL

34994

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

(Zip Code)



Registrant’s telephone number, including area code     (772) 287-4000    

 

 

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Seacoast Banking Corporation of Florida

8-K – 03/14/05

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Item 4.02.

Non-Reliance on Previously Issued Financial Statements or a Related Audit Report or Completed Interim Review.


(a)  In connection with the preparation of its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the period ended December 31, 2004, management of Seacoast Banking Corporation of Florida (the “Company”), in consultation with the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, KPMG LLP, determined that, due to recent business and regulatory developments, the Company’s documentation relating to an interest rate swap entered into in January 2003 may not meet the requirements necessary to achieve hedge accounting under Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 133, “Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities.”  As a result of this determination and resulting analysis, the Company’s management and the Audit Committee of its Board of Directors concluded on March 8, 2005 that certain of the Company’s previously issued financial statements should be restated to reflect the fair value of January 2003 interest rate swap, and that the consolidated statements of income included in the Company’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2004 and June 30, 2004 should no longer be relied upon.  


The Company will restate the affected consolidated statements of income in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the period ended December 31, 2004, and the Company’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for fiscal 2005 will reflect the restated information for the corresponding first and second quarters of fiscal 2004.  The overall effect of the restatement is primarily to change the timing of the Company’s recognition of changes in the fair value of the January 2003 interest rate swap, which affects the Company’s net income recognition but has no effect on cash flows in the affected periods.  The Company’s net income is changed in amounts corresponding to the changes in earnings shown below.


The Company’s management has discussed the matters disclosed in this Current Report on Form 8-K with KPMG LLP.  


(Dollars in thousands,

except per share amount)

 

First

Second

2004

    

Reconciliation to Previously Reported Results

 
 

Noninterest income :

   
  

As originally reported

 

4,861

5,024

  

Adjustment

 

634

(1,224)

  

Restated

 

5,495

3,800

 

Income before income tax expense

   
  

As originally reported

 

5,617

6,006

  

Adjustment

 

634

(1,224)

  

Restated

 

6,251

4,782

 

Net income:

   
 

 

As originally reported

 

3,625

3,886

  

Adjustment

 

412

(796)

  

Restated

 

4,037

3,090

 

Basic net income per share:

   
  

As originally reported

 

0.23

0.25

  

Adjustment

 

0.03

(0.05)

  

Restated

 

0.26

0.20

 

Diluted net income per share:

   
  

As originally reported

 

0.23

0.25

  

Adjustment

 

0.02

(0.05)

  

Restated

 

0.25

0.20



SIGNATURES


Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.



SEACOAST BANKING CORPORATION OF FLORIDA



Date:    March 14, 2005

By:

/s/ William R. Hahl


William R. Hahl

Executive Vice President and

Chief Financial Officer of Seacoast

Banking Corporation of Florida