Manage Collective/Group-Level ECL for US GAAP
- Nancy Cohn (Deactivated)
Eagle’s accounting solution allows you to process Expected Credit Losses (ECL) at the collective/group level (pooled approach) for US GAAP portfolios where the regulatory category and investments are classified as Held-To-Maturity (HTM).
Collective/group-level ECL processing involves the creation of a dummy asset using the processing security type, ECLGRP, which represents a group of assets/individual securities held by a portfolio for which expected credit losses exist. It provides a way for an entity to account for expected credit losses within its portfolio without having to book ECL to the individual securities.
Expected credit losses (EGL) result from all possible default events over the expected life of a financial instrument. Under the impairment approach in US GAAP, it is no longer necessary for a credit event to have occurred before credit losses are recognized. Instead, an entity should account for expected credit losses, and changes in those expected credit losses for investments classified as Held to Maturity. Alternatively, Expected Credit Losses can be accounted for at a position/lot level for Held to Maturity investments.
When accounting for collective/group-level expected credit losses, you can:
Add a dummy asset ID to Reference Data Center (RDC) for ECL positions, so the system has assets specifically used for collective/group-level ECL accounting.
Book ECL against domestic or foreign assets to capture all collective/group-level accounting.
Book ECL against foreign assets where the accounting system properly differentiates between increases and decreases and account for them differently to properly capture variations in FX rate.
Account for ECL holdings in Eagle Accounting valuation and capture any FX rate fluctuation in income for unrealized currency gains/losses to ensure all currency accounting is complete.
Cancel any ECL transaction so there is a way to eliminate incorrect transactions from Eagle Accounting.
Report on expected credit losses.
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