GAAP—Update on new Accounting Principles and How They Impact Your Borrowers’ Financials

  • 6
  • March 2025
    Thursday
  • 10:00 AM PST | 01:00 PM EST

    Duration:  60  Mins

Level

Basic & Advanced

Webinar ID

IQW25C0341

Background of FASB and IASB accounting convergence

  • Close, but no cigar
  • Differences still exist

Revenue recognition

  • Seller recognizes revenue when the buyer gets possession of a good or service
  • Generally sooner than later
  • More emphasis on gross revenues 

Lease capitalization

  • Troublesome off-balance-sheet loophole finally plugged
  • Whether operating or financing lease, both are capitalized
  • Both lease liability and right of use (ROU) assets put on the balance sheet
  • Higher leverage ratios, lower return on asset ratios
  • Cash flow impacts

CECL

  • Incurred loss replaced by loss over the life of the loan
  • Higher probability of default
  • CECL means higher provision for credit losses in the financials of borrowers, not just bankers

Not-for-profits

  • Balance sheet simplified
  • More disclosure of liquidity

Overview of the webinar

This session will explain these new concepts and how they affect borrowers and how lenders should incorporate these changes into their own analyses and underwriting of borrowers. 

 

Who should attend?

  • Commercial bankers
  • Commercial real estate lenders
  • Credit analysts
  • Credit department staff
  • Loan underwriters
  • Loan review officers
  • Credit department managers
  • Senior lenders
  • Chief credit officers

Why should you attend?

We tend to take accounting for granted debits equal credits, total assets equal total liabilities and stockholder’s equity.  Generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) are generally accepted because they do not change often, and when they do, there are good reasons for the change.

However, business and the economy do change over time, and several new principles warrant review to understand how they will affect both borrowers and lenders--new GAAP for revenue recognition, lease capitalization, current expected credit losses (CECL) as well as changes to not-for-profit financials.

Much of the change in GAAP in recent years is the result of collaboration between the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) to bring US and international accounting principles closer together.  At some point, both groups decided they were as close as they would be likely to get on several key concepts revenue recognition, lease capitalization, and CECL. In addition, FASB decided to revise financial statement disclosure for the large and growing not-for-profit segment of the American economy.

Faculty - Mr.Dev Strischek

A frequent speaker, instructor, advisor and writer on credit risk and commercial banking topics and issues, Martin J. "Dev" Strischek is principal of Devon Risk Advisory Group based near Atlanta, Georgia.  Dev advises, trains, and develops for financial organizations risk management solutions and recommendations on a range of issues and topics, e.g., credit risk management, credit culture, credit policy, credit and lending training, etc. Dev is also a member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s (FASB’s) Private Company Council (PCC).  PCC’s purpose is to evaluate and recommend to FASB revisions to current and proposed generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) that are more appropriate for privately held firms.  He also serves as the PCC’s representative to FASB’s Credit Losses Transition Resource Group supporting the new current expected credit loss (CECL) standard. Dev is the former SVP and senior credit policy officer at SunTrust Bank, Atlanta. He was responsible for developing, implementing, and administering credit policies for SunTrust’s wholesale lines of business--commercial, commercial real estate, corporate investment banking, capital markets, business banking and private wealth management.

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