Company: UVSP
Filing Date: 2025-02-24
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000102212-25-000006
Chunk: 2

Company: UNIVEST FINANCIAL Corp
Filing Date: 2025-02-24
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 8
Chunk 2
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 the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the consolidated financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the consolidated financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the consolidated financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

Critical Audit Matter

The critical audit matter communicated below is a matter arising from the current period audit of the consolidated financial statements that was communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that: (1) relates to accounts or disclosures that are material to the consolidated financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments. The communication of a critical audit matter does not alter in any way our opinion on the consolidated financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matter below, providing a separate opinion on the critical audit matter or on the accounts or disclosures to which it relates.

Valuation of the allowance for credit losses related to pooled loans

As discussed in Notes 1 and 5 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company’s allowance for credit losses on loans and leases was $87.1 million as of December 31, 2024, a portion of which is related to pooled loans (the collective ACL). The Company utilizes a discounted cash flow (DCF) model to calculate the present value of the expected cash flows for pools of loans that share similar risk characteristics and compares the results of this calculation to the amortized cost basis to determine its collective ACL balance. The contractual term used in projecting the cash flows of a loan is based on the maturity date of a loan and is adjusted for prepayment or curtailment assumptions which may shorten that contractual time period. The Company estimated the collective ACL using a model that incorporates probability of default (PD) and loss given default (LGD) components. The PD model component incorporates economic factors into forecasting within the DCF model utilizing a method which generates PD rate inputs by analyzing how one or more of the economic factors, chosen based on statistical correlation to a loan pool’s 

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