Company: CCNE
Filing Date: 2025-03-06
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000736772-25-000071
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Company: CNB FINANCIAL CORP/PA
Filing Date: 2025-03-06
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 8
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 evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

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.

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Allowance for Credit Losses on Loans – Qualitative Factors

Description of the Critical Audit Matter 

As described in Notes 1 and 3 to the financial statements, the Corporation’s loan portfolio totaled $4.6 billion as of December 31, 2024, and the allowance for credit losses on loans (“ACL”) was $47.4 million. This represents an estimate of expected losses inherent within the Corporation’s loan portfolio.

The Corporation establishes an allowance representing the estimate of expected credit losses over the estimated life of the existing portfolio of loans. The Corporation measures expected credit losses based on a pooled loan basis when similar risk characteristics exist by primarily applying a discounted cash flow (“DCF”) model. The DCF model discounts instrument-level contractual cash flows, adjusting for prepayments and curtailments, and incorporates loss expectations based on past events, current conditions, and forecasted macroeconomic indicators using reasonable and supportable forecasts. The quantitative estimated losses provided by the DCF model are supplemented by more qualitative factors that impact potential losses. Qualitative factors include changes in underwriting standards, changes in lending staff, changes in environmental conditions and other relevant factors. The allowance for credit loss may be materially affected by these qualitative factors, especially during periods of economic uncertainty, for items not reflected in the lifetime credit loss calculation, but which are deemed appropriate by management's current assessment of the risks related to the loan portfolio and/or external factors. The evaluation of qualitative factors is inherently imprecise and requires significant management judgment.

We identified the qualitative factor adjustments included in the allowance for credit losses on loans as a critical audit matter. The principal considerations for our determination included the high degree of judgment and subjectivity in auditing management’s estimation of qualitative factor adjustments