Company: NWBI
Filing Date: 2025-02-25
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001471265-25-000016
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Company: Northwest Bancshares, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-25
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1B
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Table of ContentsNORTHWEST BANCSHARES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTSDecember 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022

contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, and the reported amount of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. The estimate and assumptions that we deem important to our financial statements relate to the allowance for credit losses. This estimate and assumptions are based on management’s best estimates and judgment and we evaluate them using historical experience and other factors, including the current economic environment. We adjust our estimates and assumptions when facts and circumstances dictate. As future events cannot be determined, actual results could differ significantly from our estimates. (v)                                    Reclassification of Prior Years’ Statements 

Certain items previously reported have been reclassified to conform with the current year’s reporting format. These reclassifications had no effect on the reported results of operations. 

(2)     Recently Adopted Accounting Standards

In March 2023, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2023-02, “Investments—Equity Method and Joint Ventures (Topic 323): Accounting for Investments in Tax Credit Structures Using the Proportional Amortization Method.” This ASU allows reporting entities to elect to account for qualifying tax equity investments using the proportional amortization method, regardless of the program giving rise to the related income tax credits. Entities must make an accounting policy election to apply the proportional amortization method on a tax credit-program-by-tax-credit-program basis. The ASU’s amendments also remove the specialized guidance for low-income-housing tax credit (“LIHTC”) investments that are not accounted for using the proportional amortization method and instead require that those LIHTC investments be accounted for using the guidance in other accounting standards. This guidance is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2023, with early adoption permitted. This ASU is applied on a modified retrospective or retrospective basis with the amendments to remove the specialized guidance for LIHTCs also being able to be applied on a prospective basis. This guidance was adopted on January 1, 2024 and did not have a material impact to the Company’s financial statements.

In November 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-07, “Segment Reporting (Topic