Company: NWBI
Filing Date: 2025-02-25
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001471265-25-000016
Chunk: 323

Company: Northwest Bancshares, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-25
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 8
Chunk 323
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 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 280): Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosures” to improve disclosure requirements, primarily through enhanced disclosures about significant segment expenses. This update requires that an entity that has a single reportable segment, such as the Company, to provide all the disclosures required by this update. The amendments in this update require annual and interim disclosures on significant segment expenses that are regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker to make operating decisions and to allocate resources. The amendments in this update are effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2023, and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024. A public entity should apply the amendments in this update retrospectively to all prior periods presented in the consolidated financial statements with early adoption permitted. This guidance was adopted for the year ended December 31, 2024 and did not have a material impact on the Company’s financial statements.  

(3)    Leases

Lease expense for these leases is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term, with variable lease payments recognized in the period those payments are incurred