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Basis of Presentation and Recent Accounting Pronouncements
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Basis Of Presentation And Recent Accounting Pronouncements  
Basis of Presentation and Recent Accounting Pronouncements

1)  Basis of Presentation and Recent Accounting Pronouncements

 

Basis of Presentation

 

The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America for interim financial information and with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Articles 8 and 10 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, they do not include all the information and disclosures required by accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America for complete financial statements. These financial statements should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements of the Company and notes thereto for the year ended December 31, 2025, included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K (File Number 000-09341). In the opinion of management, all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring accruals) considered necessary for a fair presentation have been included. Operating results for the three-month periods ended March 31, 2026, are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the year ending December 31, 2026.

 

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to adopt policies and make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the financial statements and accompanying notes. In applying these policies and estimates, the Company makes judgments that frequently require assumptions about matters that are inherently uncertain. Accordingly, significant estimates used in the preparation of the Company’s financial statements may be subject to significant adjustments in future periods. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

 

Material estimates that are particularly susceptible to significant changes in the near term are those used in determining the value of derivative assets and liabilities; those used in determining deferred acquisition costs and the value of business acquired; those used in determining the liability for future policy benefits; those used in determining the value of loans held for sale; and those used in determining loan loss reserve. Although some variability is inherent in these estimates, management believes the amounts provided are fairly stated in all material respects.

 

Certain prior-period amounts have been reclassified to conform to the current-period presentation.

 

 

SECURITY NATIONAL FINANCIAL CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES

Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

March 31, 2026 (Unaudited)

 

1)  Basis of Presentation and Recent Accounting Pronouncements (Continued)

 

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

 

Accounting Standards Adopted in 2025

 

ASU No. 2018-12: “Financial Services – Insurance (Topic 944): Targeted Improvements to the Accounting for Long-Duration Contracts” — Issued in August 2018, ASU 2018-12 is intended to improve the timeliness of recognizing changes in the liability for future policy benefits on traditional long-duration contracts by requiring that assumptions be updated after contract inception and by modifying the rate used to discount future cash flows. The standard is aimed at improving the accounting for certain market-based options or guarantees associated with deposit or account balance contracts, simplifying amortization of deferred acquisition costs while improving and expanding required disclosures. In November 2020, ASU No. 2020-11: “Financial Services – Insurance (Topic 944): Effective Date and Early Application,” was issued. This ASU was issued to provide additional time for the implementation of ASU No. 2018-12 by deferring the effective date by one year. For smaller reporting companies, this update is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2024, and interim reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2025. On December 31, 2025, the Company adopted ASU No. 2018-12, using the modified retrospective approach, for changes to the liability for future policy benefits and deferred policy acquisition costs. The Company applied the guidance as of a transition date of January 1, 2024, and retrospectively adjusted prior period amounts to reflect the new guidance. The Company’s condensed consolidated financial statements are presented under the new guidance for reporting periods beginning January 1, 2024.

 

After adoption, cash flow assumptions, such as mortality, lapse, and expense, will be reviewed at least annually and, if necessary, they will be updated to reflect actual experience and current expectations in the calculation of the Company’s future policy benefits. Historically, cash flow assumptions were locked in at policy issuance and remained in place for the life of the business—even when material variances emerged between assumptions and actual experience—except in the case of a premium deficiency. Under the new guidance, net premiums are capped at 100 percent of gross premiums at the cohort level. Adoption of this standard also requires changes in the future treatment of the Company’s Deferred Acquisition Cost (“DAC”) asset.

 

Historically, the interest rate used to calculate the Company’s future policy benefits was set at policy issuance and remained in effect for the life of the policy. The Company used an expected investment portfolio rate of return based on a conservative experience assumption. The new guidance seeks to improve reporting on the financial impact associated with interest rate sensitivity. To accomplish this, future policy benefits are calculated using a discount rate based on an upper-medium-grade (A-rated) fixed income instrument.

 

The initial future policy benefit for each cohort is calculated using the original discount rate and then remeasured using the current discount rate curve. The original rate is used to determine interest accretion on the liability—which is included in net earnings—as well as to calculate the net premiums in both scenarios. The impact of remeasurement, from the original locked-in discount rate to the current rate, is reported as a component of the Company’s AOCI. This original discount rate is locked in at the cohort’s inception or at the Transition Date and will continue to be used in determining the impact on future net earnings associated with that contract.

 

DAC is used by insurance companies to defer costs related to acquiring insurance policies. Under the new guidance, amortization methods are simplified, and DAC for all insurance contracts will be subject to constant-level basis amortization over the lifetime of the policy. Historically, traditional life contracts were amortized in proportion to premiums over the expected premium-paying period. Additionally, shadow DAC is no longer reported.

 

The requirements of the new guidance did not impact capital and surplus or net income under statutory accounting practices, cash flows on the Company’s policies, or the underlying economics of the Company’s business.

 

 

SECURITY NATIONAL FINANCIAL CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES

Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

March 31, 2026 (Unaudited)

 

1)  Basis of Presentation and Recent Accounting Pronouncements (Continued)

 

The following tables present amounts as previously reported in 2025, the effect upon those amounts from the adoption of the new guidance under ASU No. 2018-12, and the resulting adjusted amounts that are reflected in the condensed consolidated financial statements included herein. The following tables only include those line items impacted by the adoption of the new guidance.

 

  

As Previously

Reported

  

Effect of

Change

  

As Currently

Reported

 
Consolidated Statements of Earnings:  Three Months Ended March 31, 2025 
  

As Previously

Reported

  

Effect of

Change

  

As Currently

Reported

 
Benefits and expenses:               
Policyholder benefits and claims  $26,235,077   $(779,903)  $25,455,174 
Amortization of deferred policy and pre-need acquisition costs and value of business acquired   4,696,535    (1,899,536)   2,796,999 
Total benefits and expenses   77,168,829    (2,679,439)   74,489,390 
                
Earnings before income taxes   5,570,894    2,679,439    8,250,333 
Income tax expense   (1,232,602)   (603,996)   (1,836,598)
Net earnings  $4,338,292   $2,075,443   $6,413,735 
                
Net earnings per Class A equivalent common share (1)  $0.18   $0.08   $0.26 
                
Net earnings per Class A equivalent common share - assuming dilution (1)  $0.18   $0.07   $0.25 

 

 

(1)Adjusted retroactively for the effect of annual stock dividends

 

   As Previously Reported  

Effect of

Change

   As Currently Reported 
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income:  Three Months Ended March 31, 2025 
   As Previously Reported  

Effect of

Change

   As Currently Reported 
Net earnings  $4,338,292   $2,075,443   $6,413,735 
Other comprehensive income:               
Unrealized gains on fixed maturity securities available for sale   3,788,729    72,528    3,861,257 
Interest rate remeasurement of future policy benefits   -    (8,122,845)   (8,122,845)
Other comprehensive income (loss), before income tax   3,795,832    (8,050,317)   (4,254,485)
Income tax benefit (expense)   (798,220)   1,690,568    892,348 
Other comprehensive income (loss), net of income tax   2,997,612    (6,359,749)   (3,362,137)
Comprehensive income (loss)  $7,335,904   $(4,284,306)  $3,051,598 

 

   As Previously Reported  

Effect of

Change

   As Currently Reported 
Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity:  Three Months Ended March 31, 2025 
   As Previously Reported  

Effect of

Change

   As Currently Reported 
Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)  $(3,953,654)  $34,311,146   $30,357,492 
Retained earnings   229,697,478    4,520,696    234,218,174 
Total stockholders’ equity  $346,493,686   $38,831,842   $385,325,528 

 

 

SECURITY NATIONAL FINANCIAL CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES

Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

March 31, 2026 (Unaudited)

 

1)  Basis of Presentation and Recent Accounting Pronouncements (Continued)

 

Accounting Standards Issued But Not Yet Adopted

 

ASU No. 2024-03: “Income Statement-Reporting Comprehensive Income- Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses” — Issued in November 2024, ASU 2024-03 requires public business entities to disclose, in the notes to the consolidated financial statements, specified information about certain expenses at each interim and annual reporting period. ASU 2024-03 requires disclosures about specific types of expenses (i.e., (a) purchases of inventory, (b) employee compensation, (c) depreciation and (d) intangible asset amortization) included in the expense captions presented on the face of the statement of earnings as well as disclosures about selling expenses. ASU 2024-03 does not change the requirements for the presentation of expenses on the statement of earnings. ASU 2024-03 is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027. Accordingly, the Company will adopt the standard commencing with its annual reporting period ending December 31, 2027. The Company is in the process of estimating the potential impact of this new standard on the consolidated financial statements.

 

ASU No. 2025-11: “Interim Reporting (Topic 270): Narrow-Scope Improvements” — Issued in December 2025, ASU 2025-11 clarifies the form, content, and disclosure requirements for interim financial statements and the application of Topic 270. The update differentiates requirements by entity type: SEC registrants must continue to follow SEC rules for condensed financial statements; non-SEC registrants may present either full or condensed statements, using either the ASU’s guidance or SEC-style condensed guidance; and not-for-profit entities follow the non-SEC model with additional presentation considerations specific to NFP reporting. The ASU also compiles a comprehensive list of required interim disclosures for condensed statements from across the Codification, supported by conforming edits, to improve usability (while not replacing underlying guidance). In addition, the ASU reinforces a disclosure principle requiring entities to provide interim disclosures for significant events or transactions that have had a material effect since the most recent year-end, such as changes in accounting principles, key estimates, financing arrangements, long-term contracts, or the reporting entity. The amendments are effective for public business entities for interim periods within annual periods beginning after December 15, 2027, with early adoption permitted. The guidance may be applied prospectively or retrospectively. The Company is in the process of estimating the potential impact of this new standard on the consolidated financial statements.

 

The Company has reviewed other recent accounting pronouncements and has determined that they will not significantly impact the Company’s results of operations or financial position.

 

 

SECURITY NATIONAL FINANCIAL CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES

Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

March 31, 2026 (Unaudited)