Current Expected Credit Loss (CECL) Implementation Insights (2024)

Current Expected Credit Loss (CECL) Implementation Insights (1)

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Current Expected Credit Loss (CECL) Implementation Insights (2)

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CECL thoughtware

The CECL thoughtware provided below is guidance for any company—not just banking—in the different stages of implementation.

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    Unlike the incurred loss models in existing US GAAP, the CECL model does not specify a threshold for recognizing an impairment allowance. Rather, an entity will recognize its estimate of expected credit losses for financial assets as of the end of the reporting period. Credit impairment will be recognized as an allowance — or contra-asset — rather than as a direct write-down of the amortized cost basis of a financial asset.

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    An entity’s estimate of expected credit losses should reflect the losses that occur over the contractual life of the financial asset. When determining the contractual life of a financial asset, an entity is required to consider expected prepayments either as a separate input in the method used to estimate expected credit losses or as an amount embedded in the credit loss experience that it uses to estimate such losses. The entity is not allowed to consider expected extensions of the contractual life unless (1) extensions are a contractual right of the borrower or (2) the entity has a reasonable expectation as of the reporting date that it will execute a TDR with the borrower.¹

    Current Expected Credit Loss (CECL) Implementation Insights (3)

    An entity must consider all available relevant information when estimating expected credit losses, including details about past events, current conditions, and reasonable and supportable forecasts and their implications with respect to expected credit losses. That is, while the entity can use historical charge-off rates as a starting point for determining expected credit losses, it has to evaluate how conditions that existed during the historical charge-off period may differ from its current expectations and accordingly revise its estimate of expected credit losses. However, the entity is not required to forecast conditions over the contractual life of the asset. Rather, for the period beyond the period for which the entity can make reasonable and supportable forecasts, the entity reverts to historical credit loss experience.

    1 ASU 2022-02, issued in March 2022, eliminates the concept of a TDR from the creditor's accounting. As a result, an entity that has adopted ASU 2022-02 will no longer be able to extend the contractual term for expected extensions, renewels, and modifications when it reasonably expects, as of the reporting date, that a TDR will be executed with the borrower.

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    The FASB believes that the impairment allowance should reflect management’s expectations regarding the net amounts expected to be collected on a financial asset and that, because entities manage credit risk differently, they should have flexibility when reporting those expectations. As a result, the FASB did not require entities to use a specific method when measuring their estimate of expected credit losses. Accordingly, an entity can select from a number of measurement approaches to determine the allowance for expected credit losses. Some approaches project future principal and interest cash flows (i.e., a discounted cash flow [DCF] method), while others project only future principal losses. ASU 2016-13 emphasizes that an entity should use methods that are “practical and relevant” given the specific facts and circ*mstances and that “[t]he method(s) used to estimate expected credit losses may vary on the basis of the type of financial asset, the entity’s ability to predict the timing of cash flows, and the information available to the entity.”

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