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Significant Accounting Judgments, Estimates, and Assumptions
6 Months Ended
Apr. 30, 2024
Significant Accounting Judgments, Estimates, And Assumptions [Abstract]  
Significant Accounting Judgments, Estimates, and Assumptions
The estimates used in the Bank’s accounting policies
 
are essential to understanding its results
 
of operations and financial condition. Some
 
of the Bank’s policies
require subjective, complex judgments and
 
estimates as they relate to matters
 
that are inherently uncertain. Changes in these judgments
 
or estimates and
changes to accounting standards and policies
 
could have a material impact on the Bank’s
 
Interim Consolidated Financial Statements.
 
The Bank has established
procedures to ensure that accounting policies
 
are applied consistently and that the processes
 
for changing methodologies, determining
 
estimates, and adopting
new accounting standards are well-controlled
 
and occur in an appropriate and systematic
 
manner. Refer to Note 3 of the Bank’s 2023 Annual Consolidated
Financial Statements for a description of
 
significant accounting judgments, estimates,
 
and assumptions.
Impairment – Expected Credit Loss Model
The expected credit loss (ECL) model requires
 
the application of judgments, estimates,
 
and assumptions in the assessment of the
 
current and forward-looking
economic environment. There remains elevated
 
economic uncertainty, and management continues to exercise
 
expert credit judgment in assessing if an
 
exposure
has experienced significant increase in credit
 
risk since initial recognition and in determining
 
the amount of ECLs at each reporting date.
 
To the extent that certain
effects are not fully incorporated into the model
 
calculations, temporary quantitative and qualitative
 
adjustments have been applied.
Insurance Contracts
The assumptions used in establishing the Bank’s
 
insurance claims and policy benefit liabilities
 
are based on best estimates of possible
 
outcomes.
 
For property and casualty insurance
 
contracts, the ultimate cost of LIC is estimated
 
using a range of standard actuarial claims
 
projection techniques in
accordance with Canadian accepted actuarial
 
practices. Additional qualitative judgment
 
is used to assess the extent to which past
 
trends may or may not apply in
the future, in order to arrive at the estimated
 
ultimate claims cost amounts that present
 
the most likely outcome taking into account
 
all the uncertainties involved.
 
For life and health insurance contracts,
 
actuarial liabilities consider all future policy
 
cash flows, including premiums, claims,
 
and expenses required to administer
the policies. Critical assumptions used in
 
the measurement of life and health insurance
 
contract liabilities are determined by the appointed
 
actuary.
Further information on insurance risk assumptions
 
is provided in Note 14.
NOTE 3: SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING
 
JUDGMENTS, ESTIMATES, AND ASSUMPTIONS