BASIS OF PRESENTATION

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2024

BASIS OF PRESENTATION

BASIS OF PRESENTATION

NOTE 1: BASIS OF PRESENTATION

The accompanying unaudited interim consolidated financial statements of Great Southern Bancorp, Inc. (the “Company” or “Great Southern”) have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) for interim financial information and with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Rule 10-01 of Regulation S-X. The financial statements presented herein reflect all adjustments which are, in the opinion of management, necessary to fairly present the financial condition, results of operations, changes in stockholders’ equity and cash flows of the Company as of the dates and for the periods presented. Those adjustments consist only of normal recurring adjustments. Operating results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2024 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the full year. The consolidated statement of financial condition of the Company as of December 31, 2023, has been derived from the audited consolidated statement of financial condition of the Company as of that date.

Certain information and note disclosures normally included in the Company’s annual financial statements prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America have been condensed or omitted. These condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”).

Reclassifications

Prior period consolidated financial statements are reclassified whenever necessary to conform to the current period presentation.

Correction of an Immaterial Error in Prior Period Financial Statements

Certain prior period amounts in the Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows have been corrected as discussed below. No other financial statements or notes thereto were impacted by these corrections.

The Company has corrected its Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the six months ended June 30, 2023 within this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for an error in classification within the operating activities section of the statements of cash flows regarding amortization of terminated hedging transactions and for an error in classification regarding investments in tax credit partnerships between the operating activities and investing activities sections of the statements of cash flows.

For the item related to the terminated hedging transactions, the Company is now including the amortization from accumulated other comprehensive income and related deferred taxes recognized in interest income as an item not providing cash in accretion of deferred income, premiums, discounts and other. This was previously included in net changes in prepaid expenses and other assets. For the item related to investments in tax credit partnerships, the Company is now including the amounts invested as an item using cash in the investing activities section. This was previously included in net changes in prepaid expenses and other assets in the operating activities section.

The Company assessed the materiality of this change in presentation on prior period consolidated financial statements in accordance with SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 99, “Materiality,” (ASC Topic 250, Accounting Changes and Error Corrections). Based on this assessment, the Company concluded that these error corrections in its statements of cash flows are not material to any previously presented financial statements. The corrections had no impact on the Consolidated Statements of Financial Condition, Consolidated Statements of Income, Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income or Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity, or notes to these financial statements, for any previously presented interim or annual financial statements. Accordingly, the Company corrected the previously reported immaterial errors for the six months ended June 30, 2023 in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.

A summary of corrections reflecting the prior period impacts to the Company’s Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows are shown below (in thousands of dollars):

	For the Six Months Ended June 30, 2023
	As Previously
	Presented		Net Change		As Corrected
Operating Activities
Accretion of deferred income, premiums, discounts and other	$	(2,791)	$	(4,028)	$	(6,819)
Prepaid expenses and other assets		(12,075)		15,444		3,369
Net cash provided by operating activities		47,628		11,416		59,044
Investing Activities
Investment in tax credit partnerships		—		(11,416)		(11,416)
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities		3,874		(11,416)		(7,542)