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Recent Accounting Pronouncements
 9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2025
Accounting Changes and Error Corrections [Abstract]  
Recent Accounting Pronouncements

2) Recent Accounting Pronouncements

 

Accounting Standards Issued But Not Yet Adopted

 

ASU No. 2018-12: “Financial Services – Insurance (Topic 944): Targeted Improvements to the Accounting for Long-Duration Contracts” — Issued in August 2018, ASU 2018-12 is intended to improve the timeliness of recognizing changes in the liability for future policy benefits on traditional long-duration contracts by requiring that assumptions be updated after contract inception and by modifying the rate used to discount future cash flows. The standard is aimed at improving the accounting for certain market-based options or guarantees associated with deposit or account balance contracts, simplifying amortization of deferred acquisition costs while improving and expanding required disclosures. In November 2020, ASU No. 2020-11: “Financial Services – Insurance (Topic 944): Effective Date and Early Application,” was issued. This ASU was issued to provide additional time for the implementation of ASU No. 2018-12 by deferring the effective date by one year. For smaller reporting companies, this update is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2024, and interim reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2025. The Company will adopt the standard commencing with its annual reporting period ending December 31, 2025, using the modified retrospective transition method as of the transition date (“Transition Date”) of January 1, 2024. The modified retrospective transition method requires the amended guidance be applied to contracts issued after the beginning of the earliest period presented, or the Transition Date, which will result in the restatement of the 2024 consolidated financial statements.

 

The Company is nearing completion of its analysis and implementation of the new standard, including the identification of cohorts, system updates, and design. The Company has engaged its team of actuaries, accountants, and systems specialists and consulted external system providers as part of the implementation. The adoption of this guidance is expected to have an impact on its financial position, results of operations, and disclosures, as well as systems, processes and controls. Based upon the modified retrospective transition method, the Company estimates that the January 1, 2024, Transition Date impact from adoption will include an increase to total stockholders’ equity of approximately $4 million to $6 million. This expected increase includes the estimated impact to accumulated other comprehensive income (“AOCI”), which, as of the Transition Date, is expected to result in an increase of approximately $4 million to $6 million, net of income tax. The most significant drivers of the expected increase in AOCI are the anticipated impacts of the changes in the discount rates as of the Transition Date to be used in measuring the liability for future policy benefits for traditional and limited payment contracts. The expected increase to total stockholders’ equity also includes the estimated impact to retained earnings, which is immaterial.

 

After implementation, cash flow assumptions, such as mortality, lapse, and expense, will be reviewed at least annually and, if necessary, they will be updated to reflect actual experience and current expectations in the calculation of the Company’s future policy benefits. Historically, cash flow assumptions were locked in at policy issuance and remained in place for the life of the business—even when material variances emerged between assumptions and actual experience—except in the case of a premium deficiency. Under the new guidance, net premiums are capped at 100 percent of gross premiums at the cohort level. Adoption of this standard also requires changes in the future treatment of the Company’s Deferred Acquisition Cost (“DAC”) asset.

 

Historically, the interest rate used to calculate the Company’s future policy benefits was set at policy issuance and remained in effect for the life of the policy. The Company used an expected investment portfolio rate of return based on a conservative experience assumption. The new guidance seeks to improve reporting on the financial impact associated with interest rate sensitivity. To accomplish this, future policy benefits will be calculated using a discount rate based on an upper-medium-grade (A-rated) fixed income instrument.

 

 

SECURITY NATIONAL FINANCIAL CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES

Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

September 30, 2025 (Unaudited)

 

2) Recent Accounting Pronouncements (Continued)

 

The initial future policy benefit for each cohort is calculated using the original discount rate and then remeasured using the current discount rate curve. The original rate is used to determine interest accretion on the liability—which is included in net earnings—as well as to calculate the net premiums in both scenarios. The impact of remeasurement, from the original locked-in discount rate to the current rate, is reported as a component of the Company’s AOCI. This original discount rate is locked in at the cohort’s inception or at the Transition Date and will continue to be used in determining the impact on future net earnings associated with that contract.

 

DAC is used by insurance companies to defer costs related to acquiring insurance policies. Under the new guidance, amortization methods will be simplified, and DAC for all insurance contracts will be subject to straight-line amortization over the lifetime of the policy. Historically, traditional life contracts were amortized in proportion to premiums over the expected premium-paying period. Additionally, shadow DAC will no longer be reported and will be removed from AOCI, net of tax. The impact of the removal of shadow DAC is immaterial. The Company expects the impact on net earnings due to the decrease in amortization of DAC to be in the range of $3 million to $4 million, net of tax for 2024.

 

While the requirements of the new guidance represents a change from existing standard, the new guidance will not impact capital and surplus or net income under statutory accounting practices, cash flows on the Company’s policies, or the underlying economics of the Company’s business.

 

ASU No. 2023-09: “Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures” — Issued in December 2023, ASU 2023-09 requires that public business entities, on an annual basis: (i) disclose specific categories in the rate reconciliation and (ii) provide additional information for reconciling items that meet a quantitative threshold. In addition, the amendments in this update require that all entities disclose on an annual basis the following information about income taxes paid: (i) the amount of income taxes paid (net of refunds received) disaggregated by federal (national), state, and foreign taxes and (ii) the amount of income taxes paid (net of refunds received) disaggregated by individual jurisdictions in which income taxes paid (net of refunds received) is equal to or greater than 5 percent of total income taxes paid (net of refunds received). ASU 2023-09 is effective for the Company for the annual reporting periods beginning January 1, 2025. The Company will adopt the standard commencing with its annual reporting period ending December 31, 2025. The Company does not anticipate that the adoption of this standard will have a material impact on the consolidated financial statements.

 

ASU No. 2024-03: “Income Statement-Reporting Comprehensive Income- Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses” — Issued in November 2024, ASU 2024-03 requires public business entities to disclose, in the notes to the consolidated financial statements, specified information about certain expenses at each interim and annual reporting period. ASU 2024-03 requires disclosures about specific types of expenses (i.e., (a) purchases of inventory, (b) employee compensation, (c) depreciation and (d) intangible asset amortization) included in the expense captions presented on the face of the statement of earnings as well as disclosures about selling expenses. ASU 2024-03 does not change the requirements for the presentation of expenses on the statement of earnings. ASU 2024-03 is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027. Accordingly, the Company will adopt the standard commencing with its annual reporting period ending December 31, 2027. The Company is in the process of estimating the potential impact of this new standard on the consolidated financial statements.

 

The Company has reviewed other recent accounting pronouncements and has determined that they will not significantly impact the Company’s results of operations or financial position.

 

 

SECURITY NATIONAL FINANCIAL CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES

Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

September 30, 2025 (Unaudited)