Company: CMCT
Filing Date: 2025-08-14
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000908311-25-000067
Chunk: 51

Company: Creative Media & Community Trust Corp
Filing Date: 2025-08-14
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 1
Chunk 51
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 management determines that the Company will be unable to collect any remaining amounts due under the loan agreement, either through liquidation of collateral or other means. Interest income, included in interest and other income, on a Non-Accrual Loan is recognized on the cost recovery basis.Current Expected Credit Losses—The current expected credit losses (“CECL”) required under Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2016-13, Financial Instruments Credit Losses, and subsequent amendments (“ASU 2016-13”) reflects the Company’s estimate of potential credit losses related to the Company’s loans receivable included in the consolidated balance sheets. While ASU 2016-13 does not require any particular method for determining CECL, it does specify the allowance should be based on relevant information about past events, including historical loss experience, current portfolio and market conditions, and reasonable and supportable forecasts for the duration of each respective loan. In addition, other than a few narrow exceptions, ASU 2016-13 requires that all financial instruments subject to the credit loss model have some amount of loss reserve to reflect the GAAP principal underlying the credit loss model that all loans, debt securities, and similar assets have some inherent risk of loss, regardless of credit quality, subordinate capital, or other mitigating factors.

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Table of ContentsCREATIVE MEDIA & COMMUNITY TRUST CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIESNOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTSJune 30, 2025 (Unaudited) – (Continued)

The Company adopted ASU 2016-13 using the modified retrospective method for all financial assets measured at amortized cost. As of June 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, the Company had a total CECL of $2.5 million and $2.0 million, respectively.The Company estimates CECL for its loans primarily using its historical experience with loan write-offs, historical charge-offs from third-party firms, and the weighted average remaining maturity method, which has been identified as an acceptable method for estimating CECL reserves in the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Staff Q&A Topic 326, No. 1. This method requires the Company to reference historical loan loss data across a comparable data set and apply such loss rate to each loan investment over its expected remaining term, taking into consideration expected economic conditions over the relevant timeframe. The Company considers loans that are both (i) expected to be substantially repaid through the operation or sale of the underlying collateral