Company: RNST
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000715072-25-000054
Chunk: 3

Company: RENASANT CORP
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 8
Chunk 3
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’s loans held for investment portfolio totaled $12,885,020,000 at December 31, 2024 with an ACL of $201,756,000 which consisted of 1) $186,704,000 of loss allocations on pools of loans that share similar risk characteristics and 2) $15,052,000 of loss allocations on individual loans that do not share risk characteristics with other loans and the measurement of expected credit losses for such individual loans.

The Company’s measurement of expected credit losses of loans on a pool basis when the loans share similar risk characteristics is based off historical data that is adjusted, as necessary, for both internal and external qualitative factors where there are differences in the historical loss data of the Company and current or projected future conditions. Consideration of the relevant 

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qualitative factors are used to bring the ACL to the level management believes is appropriate based on factors that are otherwise unaccounted for in the quantitative process. The ACL also includes reserves for loans evaluated on an individual basis, such as certain loans graded substandard or on nonaccrual. Management applies judgment in the determination of the qualitative factors and reserves assigned on an individual basis to estimate the ACL.

The ACL was identified by us as a critical audit matter because of the extent of auditor judgment applied and significant audit effort to evaluate the significant subjective and complex judgments made by management including the judgment required in evaluating management’s determination of the qualitative factors and the reserve assumptions for loans evaluated on an individual basis.

How We Addressed the Matter in Our Audit

The primary audit procedures we performed in response to this critical audit matter included:

a.Obtained an understanding of the Company’s process for establishing the ACL, including determination of the qualitative factors and reserve assumptions for loans evaluated on an individual basis, and evaluated the process utilized by management to challenge the model results and determine the best estimate of the ACL as of the balance sheet date. 

b.Evaluated the design and tested the operating effectiveness of the controls associated with the ACL process, including controls around the reliability and accuracy of data used in the model, management’s oversight, review and approval of the selected qualitative factors, the reserve assumptions for loans evaluated on an individual basis, the governance of the credit loss methodology, and management’s review and approval of the overall ACL.

c.Assessed reasonableness of model methodology and key modeling assumptions, as well as the appropriateness of management’s qualitative framework, and reserve assumptions for loans evaluated on an individual basis.

d.Performed specific substantive tests of the model utilized