Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form Type: ARS
Source: 0001518715-25-000069
Chunk: 36

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form: ARS
Chunk 36
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 in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements. 30

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate. Critical Audit Matters The critical audit matters communicated below are matters arising from the current period audit of the financial statements that were communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that: (1) relate to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments. The communication of critical audit matters does not alter in any way our opinion on the financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matters below, providing separate opinions on the critical audit matters or on the accounts or disclosures to which they relate. Allowance for Credit Losses for Loans Held for Investment – Economic Qualitative Factor – Refer to Notes 1 and 3 to the financial statements The Company accounts for its allowance for credit losses (“ACL”) on loans held for investment in accordance with Accounting Standards Codification Topic 326: Financial Instruments – Credit Losses, which requires the measurement of the current expected credit losses for financial assets held at the reporting date. The ACL is a valuation account that is deducted from the amortized cost basis to present the net amount expected to be collected on the loans. Management estimates the ACL balance using relevant available information from internal and external sources relating to past events, current conditions and reasonable and supportable forecasts. Historical credit loss experience provides the basis for the estimation of expected credit losses. As of December 31, 2024, the Company’s consolidated allowance for credit losses on loans was $38,743,000 and there was no provision for credit losses on loans for the year then ended. The Company's ACL model uses statistical analysis to determine life of loan default rates for the quantitative component and analyzes qualitative