Recent Accounting Pronouncements

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2022

Accounting Changes and Error Corrections [Abstract]

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

2. Recent Accounting Pronouncements

ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS TO BE ADOPTED

Insurance

In August of 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-12, Financial Services - Insurance: Targeted Improvements to the Accounting for Long-Duration Contracts, which provides targeted improvements to Topic 944 for the assumptions used to measure the liability for future policy benefits for nonparticipating traditional and limited-payment contracts; measurement of market risk benefits; amortization of deferred acquisition costs; and enhanced disclosures. Upon adoption, our assumptions used to measure the liability for future policy benefits will be updated at least annually. The guidance requires the discount rate used to measure the liability to be an upper-medium grade fixed-income instrument yield and updated at each reporting date with changes in the liability due to the discount rate recognized in other comprehensive income. The amendments in this ASU become effective for the Company beginning January 1, 2023 and we have selected the modified retrospective transition method, which requires a transition date of January 1, 2021.

The Company’s cross-functional implementation team continues to make progress in line with the established project plan to ensure we comply with all the amendments in this ASU at the time of adoption. The Company’s long-duration contracts include whole life, term life, accidental death and dismemberment, and disability income protection. We are utilizing an actuarial software solution to meet the new accounting and disclosure requirements and continue to refine the development of the actuarial model and assumptions. After the model has been subject to a parallel testing phase in 2022, the Company will provide further disclosure regarding the estimated impact of the adoption of the ASU on our consolidated financial statements. At the transition date, we expect this ASU will result in an increase to insurance claims and policyholder liabilities that will primarily be driven by the remeasured discount rate, resulting in a reduction to accumulated other comprehensive income, net of tax. We expect this impact would reverse over the transition period as interest rates continue to rise. We expect the impact to retained earnings to be immaterial.

Financial Instruments

In March of 2022, the FASB issued ASU 2022-02, Financial Instruments - Credit Losses: Troubled Debt Restructurings and Vintage Disclosures, which eliminates the accounting for troubled debt restructurings by creditors while enhancing the disclosure requirements for certain loan refinancings and restructurings by creditors when a borrower is experiencing financial difficulty. The amendment also requires disclosure of gross charge-offs by year of origination for finance receivables. The amendments in this ASU are effective for the Company for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2022, including interim periods within those fiscal years. Early adoption is permitted. Management will adopt this ASU using the modified retrospective method effective January 1, 2023. We are currently evaluating whether adoption of this ASU will have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements.

We do not believe that any other accounting pronouncements issued, but not yet effective, would have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements or disclosures, if adopted.