Accounting Changes

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2022

Accounting Changes and Error Corrections [Abstract]

Accounting Changes

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Reference Interest Rate Transition In March 2020, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued accounting guidance, providing temporary optional expedients and exceptions to the guidance in United States generally accepted accounting principles on contract modifications and hedge accounting, to ease the financial reporting burdens related to the expected market transition from the London Interbank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”) and other interbank offered rates to alternative reference rates. Under the guidance, a company can elect not to apply certain modification accounting requirements to contracts affected by reference rate transition, if certain criteria are met. A company that makes this election would not be required to remeasure the contracts at the modification date or reassess a previous accounting determination. This guidance also permits a company to elect various optional expedients that would allow it to continue applying hedge accounting for hedging relationships affected by reference rate transition, if certain criteria are met. The guidance is effective upon issuance and generally can be applied through December 31, 2022. The Company is in the process of evaluating and applying, as applicable, the optional expedients and exceptions in accounting for eligible contract modifications, eligible existing hedging relationships and new hedging relationships available through December 31, 2022. The adoption of this guidance has not had, and is expected to continue to not have, a material impact on the Company’s financial statements.

Fair Value Hedging – Portfolio Layer Method In March 2022, the FASB issued accounting guidance, effective for the Company no later than January 1, 2023, related to fair value hedge accounting of portfolios of financial assets. This guidance expands the current last-of-layer hedging method that permits a company to apply fair value hedging to a stated amount of a closed portfolio of prepayable financial assets, by allowing it to designate multiple hedging relationships on a single closed portfolio, resulting in a larger portion of the interest rate risk associated with such a portfolio being eligible to be hedged. The guidance also expands the scope of the method to include non-prepayable financial assets and clarifies other technical questions from the original accounting guidance. The Company expects the adoption of this guidance will not be material to its financial statements.

Financial Instruments – Troubled Debt Restructurings and Vintage Disclosures In March 2022, the FASB issued accounting guidance, effective for the Company no later than January 1, 2023, related to the recognition and measurement of troubled debt restructurings (“TDRs”) by creditors. This guidance removes the separate recognition and measurement requirements for TDRs by replacing them with a requirement for a company to apply existing accounting guidance to determine whether a modification results in a new loan or a continuation of an existing loan. This guidance also replaces existing TDR disclosures with similar but more expansive disclosures for certain modifications of receivables made to borrowers experiencing financial difficulty. Further, this guidance also requires companies to disclose current-period gross write-offs by year of origination for financing receivables. The guidance can be adopted on a prospective or modified retrospective basis. The Company expects the adoption of this guidance will not be material to its financial statements.