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Basis of Financial Reporting (Policies) | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2022
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract] |
Basis of Accounting | The accompanying unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) for interim financial information and with the instructions for Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required by U.S. GAAP for complete financial statements. In the opinion of management, all adjustments (consisting of recurring accruals) necessary for a fair presentation have been included. These unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements should be read in conjunction with the audited Consolidated Financial Statements and the Notes thereto set forth in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021. The preparation of these financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, as well as disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities, at the date of the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements, and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results may differ from those estimates. Beginning January 1, 2022 the Company is presenting certain assets and liabilities that arise from activities in which the Company engages as an intermediary, where we collect premiums from insureds to remit to insurance companies, hold funds from insurance companies to distribute to insureds for claims on covered losses and hold refunds due to customers as fiduciary assets and fiduciary liabilities. Uncollected premiums are no longer presented in the same caption with commissions, fees and other receivables, but rather represented in a separate caption as fiduciary receivables. Likewise, payables to insurance companies and premium deposits due customers are now combined into a new caption as fiduciary liabilities. The caption “restricted cash” is now reflected as “fiduciary cash” along with non-restricted fiduciary cash balances previously reported within “cash and cash equivalents.” Fiduciary cash represents funds in the Company's possession collected from customers to be remitted to insurance companies and funds from insurance companies to be distributed to insureds for the settlement of claims or refunds. The net change in fiduciary cash is represented by the net change in fiduciary liabilities and fiduciary receivables and is presented as cash flows from financing activity in the statement of cash flows. Previously the net change in cash balances held to remit to insurance carriers or to return to customers was presented as cash flows from operating activity. All prior periods included in these financial statements have been recast to conform to this basis of presentation. The relevant balance sheet captions and how the December 31, 2021 balances as presented under the prior method relate to the current presentation are reflected in the tables below. Certain liabilities reported as premiums payable to insurance companies or within premiums deposits and credits due customers were deemed not to be fiduciary in nature and have been included within accounts payable in the current presentation. Likewise, a small component of accounts payable was deemed to be fiduciary in nature and is now included within fiduciary liabilities.
December 31, 2021 |
(in millions) | As reported |  |  | Change in presentation |  |  | As revised |
Cash and cash equivalents | $ | 887.0 |  |  | $ | (193.8 | ) |  | $ | 693.2 |
Restricted cash and investments |  | 583.2 |  |  |  | (583.2 | ) |  |  | — |
Fiduciary cash |  | — |  |  |  | 777.0 |  |  |  | 777.0 |
Total |  | 1,470.2 |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | 1,470.2 |
Premiums, commissions and fees receivables |  | 1,216.3 |  |  |  | (1,216.3 | ) |  |  | — |
Commissions, fees and other receivables |  | — |  |  |  | 522.6 |  |  |  | 522.6 |
Fiduciary receivables |  | — |  |  |  | 693.7 |  |  |  | 693.7 |
Total |  | 1,216.3 |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | 1,216.3 |
Premium payable to insurance companies |  | 1,384.6 |  |  |  | (1,384.6 | ) |  |  | — |
Premium deposits and credits due customers |  | 122.4 |  |  |  | (122.4 | ) |  |  | — |
Accounts payable |  | 206.4 |  |  |  | 36.3 |  |  |  | 242.7 |
Fiduciary liabilities |  | — |  |  |  | 1,470.7 |  |  |  | 1,470.7 |
Total | $ | 1,713.4 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 1,713.4 |
For the six months ended June 30, 2021 |
(in millions) | As reported |  |  | Change in presentation |  |  | As revised |
Cash flows from operating activities: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Premiums, commissions and fees receivable (1) | $ | (120.9 | ) |  | $ | 54.2 |  |  | $ | (66.7 | )
Premiums payable to insurance companies |  | 141.1 |  |  |  | (141.1 | ) |  |  | — |
Premium deposits and credits due customers |  | 5.3 |  |  |  | (5.3 | ) |  |  | — |
Accounts payable |  | 65.2 |  |  |  | 5.8 |  |  |  | 71.0 |
Cash flows from financing activities: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Fiduciary receivables and liabilities, net |  | — |  |  |  | 86.4 |  |  |  | 86.4 |
Total restated changes in cash flows | $ | 90.7 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 90.7 |
(1) The caption of "Premiums, commissions and fees receivable" is now shown as "Commissions, fees and other receivables" in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows.
Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements | Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements In March 2020, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued ASU 2020-04, "Reference Rate Reform (Topic 848): Facilitation of the Effects of Reference Rate Reform on Financial Reporting." The amendments provide optional guidance for a limited time to ease the potential burden in accounting for reference rate reform. The new guidance provides optional expedients and exceptions for applying U.S. GAAP to contracts, hedging relationships and other transactions affected by reference rate reform if certain criteria are met. The amendments apply only to contracts and hedging relationships that reference the London Interbank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”) or another reference rate expected to be discontinued due to reference rate reform. These amendments are effective immediately and may be applied prospectively to contract modifications made and hedging relationships entered into or evaluated on or before December 31, 2022. We have evaluated our contracts and the available expedients provided by the new standard and can assert there is no impact to any carrying value of assets or liabilities as our floating-rate debt instruments that are indexed to LIBOR are carried at amortized cost.
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