Pension Reporting and Other Accounting and Audit Updates

Pension Reporting and Other Accounting and Audit Updates

Matt GeerdesCrowe Horwath LLP

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Andy MaceMiller, Cooper & Co.,

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Jason Coyle Baker Tilly Virchow Krause,

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Agenda• GASBs with pending implementation dates• Future GASBs• GASB exposure drafts• Current Pension Issues

– IMRF

GASBs with Pending Implementation Dates• GASB 55 - Hierarchy of GAAP• GASB 56 - Financial Reporting Guidance• GASB 57 - OPEB Measurements by Agent

Employers and Agent Multiple Employer Plans• GASB 58 - Accounting and Financial Reporting

for Chapter 9 Bankruptcies• GASB 59 - Financial Instruments Omnibus

Future GASBs• GASB 60 - Accounting and Financial Reporting

for Service Concession Arrangements• GASB 61 - The Financial Reporting Entity:

Omnibus• GASB 62 - Codification of Accounting and

Financial Reporting Guidance Contained in Pre-November 30, 1989 FASB and AICPA Pronouncements

Future GASBs• GASB 63 - Financial Reporting of Deferred

Outflows of Resources, Deferred Inflows of Resources, and Net Position

• GASB 64 - Derivative Instruments: Application of Hedge Accounting Termination Provisions (an amendment of GASB Statement No. 53)

Future GASBs• GASB 65 - Items Previously Reported as Assets

and Liabilities• GASB 66 - Technical Corrections – 2012

GASB Exposure Drafts

• Accounting and Financial Reporting for Pensions (An Amendment of GASB Statement No. 27)

Pension Issues

• IMRF– IMRF field audits

GASB 55 - The Hierarchy of GAAP for State and Local Governments

• The requirements in this Statement are effective upon its issuance (the provisions of this Statement need not be applied to immaterial items);

• The objective of this Statement is to incorporate the hierarchy of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) for state and local governments into the Governmental Accounting Standards Board’s (GASB) authoritative literature; and


• Current GAAP hierarchy is set forth in the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ (AICPA) Statement on Auditing Standards No. 69 rather than in the authoritative literature of the GASB.

• GASB 55 will improve financial reporting by contributing to GASB’s efforts to codify all GAAP for state and local governments;

• Easier for preparers of financial statements to identify and apply all relevant guidance; and

• The Board does not expect that this Statement will result in a change in current practice.


• Effective immediately • Related-party transactions• Subsequent events• Going concern considerations

GASB 56 – Financial Reporting Guidance

• Related-party transactions– Brings over the rules for determining who is

considered to be a related party entity and who is not.

• Subsequent events– Brought over the old disclosure guidance– Does not require a standard disclosure like FASB

regarding the issuance of the financial statements


• Going concerns considerations:– Determined at the legal entity level – each

component unit will have its own determination; – Indicators: Negative trends, default on loans,

denial of credit, restructure debt, work stoppages, dependence on one project, legal proceedings, legislation or loss of a principal taxpayer.

– Retained the ‘one year’ bright line for determination of a going concern in old guidance


• Effective immediately:– Amends Statement No. 45 to permit an agent

employer that has an individual-employer OPEB plan with fewer than 100 total plan members to use the alternative measurement method, at its option, regardless of the number of total plan members in the agent multiple-employer OPEB plan in which it participates; and

GASB 57 - OPEB Measurements by Agent Employers and Agent Multiple-Employer Plans

• Effective immediately:– Amends Statement No. 43, Financial Reporting for

Postemployment Benefit Plans Other Than Pension Plans, requirement that a defined benefit OPEB plan obtain an actuarial valuation.


• Permits the requirement to be satisfied for an agent multiple-employer OPEB plan by reporting an aggregation of results of actuarial valuations of the individual-employer OPEB plans or measurements resulting from use of the alternative measurement method for individual-employer OPEB plans that are eligible; and


• Clarifies that when actuarially determined OPEB measures are reported by an agent multiple-employer OPEB plan and its participating employers:– Those measures should be determined as of a

common date and at a minimum frequency to satisfy the agent multiple-employer OPEB plan’s financial reporting requirements.


GASB 58 - Accounting and Financial Reporting for Chapter 9 Bankruptcies• Chapter 9 of the United States Bankruptcy Code:

– Requires entities to remeasure liabilities that are adjusted in bankruptcy when the bankruptcy court confirms (that is, approves) a new payment plan.

GASB 58 - Accounting and Financial Reporting for Chapter 9 Bankruptcies• For entities that are not expected to emerge from

bankruptcy as going concerns:– Requires remeasurement of assets to a value that

represents the amount expected to be received; and– Gains or losses resulting from remeasurement of

liabilities and assets should be an extraordinary item.

GASB 58 - Accounting and Financial Reporting for Chapter 9 Bankruptcies

• Entities that have filed for bankruptcy are required to disclose information regarding, among other things, the pertinent conditions and events giving rise to the petition for bankruptcy, the expected gain, and the effects upon services.

GASB 59 – Financial Instruments Omnibus• Updates and improves existing standards regarding

financial reporting of certain financial instruments and external investment pools.

• Effective for fiscal year ending June 30, 2011, with earlier application encouraged.

• Updates for – National Council on Governmental Accounting Statement

4, Accounting and Financial Reporting Principles for Claims and Judgments and Compensated Absences

• Consistent with the amendments to GASB Statement No. 53 regarding certain financial guarantees.

• New language regarding claims entity is subject to:– “Those claims include contractual actions, such as claims for delays or

inadequate specifications on contracts, or for guarantees of the indebtedness of others that are not investment derivative instruments entered into primarily for the purpose of obtaining income or profit, property tax appeals, and unemployment compensation claims.”

GASB 59 – Financial Instruments Omnibus

• Updates for – Statement No. 25, Financial Reporting for Defined Benefit

Pension Plans and Note Disclosures for Defined Contribution Plans and Statement No. 43, Financial Reporting for Postemployment Benefit Plans Other Than Pension Plans

• Amended to remove the fair value exemption for unallocated insurance contracts.

• Investments in unallocated insurance contracts should be reported as interest-earning investment contracts according to the provisions of paragraph 8 of Statement No. 31, Accounting and Financial Reporting for Certain Investments and for External Investment Pools.


• Updates for – Statement No. 31, Accounting and Financial Reporting for Certain

Investments and for External Investment Pools• Clarified to indicate that a 2a7-like pool, as described in Statement 31, is

an external investment pool that operates in conformity with the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Rule 2a7 as promulgated under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

• Illinois Funds is a 2a7-like pool

– Statement No. 40, Deposit and Investment Risk Disclosures• Interest rate risk information should be disclosed only for debt investment

pools—such as bond mutual funds and external bond investment pools—that do not meet the requirements to be reported as a 2a7-like pool.


• Updates for – Statement No. 53, Accounting and Financial Reporting for Derivative

Instruments• Net settlement characteristic of Statement 53 that defines a derivative

instrument is not met by a contract provision for a penalty payment for nonperformance.

• Provide that financial guarantee contracts included in the scope of Statement 53 are limited to financial guarantee contracts that are considered to be investment derivative instruments entered into primarily for the purpose of obtaining income or profit.

• Clarify that certain contracts based on specific volumes of sales or service revenues are excluded from the scope of Statement 53.

• Provide that one of the “leveraged yield” criteria of Statement 53 is met if the initial rate of return on the companion instrument has the potential for at least a doubled yield.


GASB 60 - Accounting and Financial Reporting for Service Concession Arrangements

• Effective for fiscal year ending June 30, 2013 with provisions to be presented retroactively.

• Improve financial reporting by addressing issues related to service concession arrangements (SCAs).– Public-private or public-public partnership

• Arrangement between a transferor (a government) and an operator (governmental or nongovernmental entity);

• Transferor conveys to an operator the right and related obligation to provide services through the use of infrastructure or another public asset (a “facility”) in exchange for significant consideration; and

• Operator collects and is compensated by fees from third parties.

• Applies only to those arrangements in which specific criteria determining whether a transferor has control over the facility are met.

• Some SCAs include provisions for revenue sharing:– Governmental operator that shares revenues with a transferor should report all

revenue earned and expenses incurred—including the amount of revenues shared with the transferor—that are associated with the operation of the facility

• Transferor should recognize only its portion of the shared revenue when earned in accordance with the terms of the arrangement (deferred inflow)

– If revenue sharing arrangements contain amounts to be paid to the transferor regardless of revenues earned (for example, annual installments in fixed amounts), then the present value of those amounts should be reported by the transferor and governmental operator as if they were installment payments at the inception of the arrangement

GASB 60 - Accounting and Financial Reporting for Service Concession Arrangements

GASB 61 – The Financial Reporting Entity Omnibus

• Effective for fiscal year ending June 30, 2013

• Modifies certain requirements for inclusion of component units in the financial reporting entity. – For organizations that previously were required to be included as component

units by meeting the fiscal dependency criterion:• A financial benefit or burden relationship also would need to be present between the

entity and that organization for it to be included in the reporting entity as a component unit.

– For organizations that do not meet the financial accountability criteria for inclusion as component units but that, nevertheless, should be included because the entity’s management determines that it would be misleading to exclude them:

• Clarifies the manner in which that determination should be made and the types of relationships that generally should be considered in making the determination.


• Amends the criteria for reporting component units as if they were part of the Entity (that is, blending) in certain circumstances. – For component units that currently are blended based on the

“substantively the same governing body” criterion, it additionally requires that:

• Entity and the component unit have a financial benefit or burden relationship; or

• Entity management (below the level of the elected officials) of the primary government have operational responsibility for the activities of the component unit.

• New criteria also are added to require blending of component units whose total debt outstanding is expected to be repaid entirely or almost entirely with resources of the Entity.


• The blending provisions are amended to clarify that funds of a blended component unit have the same financial reporting requirements as a fund of the Entity.

• Clarifies the reporting of equity interests in legally separate organizations. – It requires a Entity to report its equity interest in a

component unit as an asset.

GASB 62 – Codification of Accounting and Financial Reporting Guidance Contained in Pre-November 30,

1989 FASB and AICPA Pronouncements• Incorporate into the GASB’s authoritative literature certain

accounting and financial reporting guidance that is included in the following pronouncements issued on or before November 30, 1989, which does not conflict with or contradict GASB pronouncements:– Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Statements and

Interpretations– Accounting Principles Board Opinions– Accounting Research Bulletins of the American Institute of Certified

Public Accountants’ (AICPA) Committee on Accounting Procedure.

• Hereinafter, these pronouncements collectively are referred to as the “FASB and AICPA pronouncements.”

• Effective for financial statements for periods ending June 30, 2013– Earlier application is encouraged. – The provisions of this Statement generally are required

to be applied retroactively for all periods presented.


1989 FASB and AICPA Pronouncements


1989 FASB and AICPA Pronouncements• Improve financial reporting by contributing to the GASB’s efforts to

codify all sources of generally accepted accounting principles for state and local governments so that they derive from a single source.

• Brings the authoritative accounting and financial reporting literature together in one place, with that guidance modified as necessary to appropriately recognize the governmental environment and the needs of governmental financial statement users.

• Eliminate the need for financial statement preparers and auditors to determine which FASB and AICPA pronouncement provisions apply to state and local governments, thereby resulting in a more consistent application of applicable guidance in financial statements of state and local governments.

• All FASB and AICPA pronouncements became nonauthoritative literature for the private sector on July 1, 2009, the effective date of the FASB Accounting Standards Codification™


1989 FASB and AICPA Pronouncements

GASB 63 – Financial Reporting of Deferred Outflows of Resources, Deferred Inflows of Resources, and Net

Position• Provides a new statement of net position format to report all assets,

deferred outflows of resources, liabilities, deferred inflows of resources, and net position– Net residual amount of the other elements

• Requires that deferred outflows of resources and deferred inflows of resources be reported separately from assets and liabilities

• Amends certain provisions of GASB Statement No. 34, Basic Financial Statements -- and Management’s Discussion and Analysis -- for State and Local Governments, and related pronouncements to reflect the residual measure in the statement of financial position as net position, rather than net assets.

• Effective for financial statements for periods beginning after December 15, 2011, with earlier application encouraged.

Governmental Business-Type Activities Activities Total

ASSETSCash and cash equivalents $ 11,712,829 $ 10,516,820 $ 22,229,649 Investments 29,250,291 64,575 29,314,866 Derivative instrument-rate swap 1,040,482 - 1,040,482 Receivables (net) 11,792,650 3,609,615 15,402,265 Internal balances 313,768 (313,768) - Inventories 322,149 126,674 448,823 Equity interest in joint venture 2,303,256 - 2,303,256 Capital assets:

Land, improvements, and construction in progress 28,435,025 6,408,150 34,843,175 Other capital assets, net of depreciation 141,587,735 150,980,601 292,568,336

Total capital assets 170,022,760 157,388,751 327,411,511

Total assets 226,758,185 171,392,667 398,150,852

DEFERRED OUTFLOWS OF RESOURCESAccumulated decrease in fair value of hedging derivatives

- 127,520 127,520

LIABILITIESAccounts payable and accrued expenses 7,538,543 659,592 8,198,135 Advances from grantors 1,435,599 - 1,435,599 Forward contract - 127,520 127,520 Long-term liabilities:

Due within 1 year 9,236,000 4,426,286 13,662,286 Due in more than 1 year 83,302,378 74,482,273 157,784,651

Total liabilities 101,512,520 79,695,671 181,208,191

DEFERRED INFLOWS OF RESOURCESAccumulated increase in fair value of hedging derivatives

1,040,482 - 1,040,482

Deferred service concession arrangement receipts - 4,467,536 4,467,536

Total deferred inflows of resources 1,040,482 4,467,536 5,508,018

NET POSITIONNet investment in capital assets 103,711,386 79,088,574 182,799,960 Restricted for:

Transportation and public works 10,655,737 - 10,655,737 Debt service 3,076,829 1,451,996 4,528,825 Housing and community redevelopment 6,845,629 - 6,845,629 Other purposes 1,483,387 - 1,483,387

Unrestricted (deficit) (1,567,785) 6,816,410 5,248,625

Total net position $ 124,205,183 $ 87,356,980 $211,562,163

Statement of Net PositionDecember 31, 20X1

Sample City

GASB 64 – Derivative Instruments: Application of Hedge Accounting Termination Provisions (an amendment of

GASB Statement No. 53)• Clarifies that when certain conditions are met, the use of hedge

accounting should not be terminated– Collectability of swap payments is considered to be probable– Replacement of the counterparty or credit support provider meets the

criteria of an assignment or in-substance assignment as described in GASB 64

– The counterparty or counterparty credit support provider (and not the government) has committed the act of default or termination event

• When all of these conditions exist, hedging relationship continues and hedge accounting should continue to be applied

• Effective for periods beginning after June 15, 2011, with earlier application encouraged.

GASB 65 – Items Previously Reported as Assets and Liabilities

Classifies certain items that were previously reported as assets and liabilities an deferred inflows or outflows of resources and recognizes certain items that were previously reported as assets as liabilities as inflows or outflows of resources.

GASB 65 – Deferred Inflows of Resources

• Grants received in advance of meeting timing requirements

• Deferred amounts from refunding of debt (credits)• Proceeds from sales of future revenues• Deferred gain from sale-leaseback• “Regulatory” credits

GASB 65 – Deferred Outflows of Resources

• Grants paid in advance of meeting timing requirements• Deferred amounts from refunding of debt (debits)• Cost to acquire rights to future revenues• Deferred loss from sale-leaseback

GASB 65 – Items that Remain Liabilities

• Derived tax revenue received in advance• Premium revenues (risk pools)• Grants received in advance of meeting eligibilty

requirements (other than timing)

GASB 65 – Items that Remain Assets

• Grants paid in advance of meeting eligibilty requirements (other than timing)

• Rights to future revenues acquired from outside the reporting entity

GASB 65 – Outflows of Resources• Debt issuance costs (other then issuance)• Initial costs incurred by lessor in an operating lease• Acquisition costs for risk pools• Loan origination costs

GASB 66 – Technical Corrections - 2012

Conflicts• Statement 62 with

– Statement 13 – Leases– Statement 48

• Purchase of a loan or group of loans• Servicing fees related to mortgage loans

• Statement 10 with– Statement 54 – Risk financing pools

GASB Exposure Draft - Pensions

Types of Plans• Single-employer• Agent multiple-employer

• IMRF

• Cost-sharing multiple-employer• TRS


Where we have been• GASB Statement No. 25 and No. 27

• Methodology was very budget and funding friendly• Consistent with the modified accrual basis of

accounting• Net Pension Obligation/Asset (NPO/NPA)

• Annual Required Contribution (ARC) vs funded• ARC>funding = NPO, ARC<funding = NPA


Where we have been• IMRF

• RSI schedule – includes APC, % contributed, UAAL, etc.• Lengthy note disclosure, including funding and funded status• Recently seen NPOs recorded for some districts

• TRS• Disclose contribution rates and amounts• Funded and funding information in TRS financial statements


Where we are headed• “Pensions are a form of compensation, like salaries, which

governments provide to their employees in return for work.”

• “Like salaries, the costs and obligations should be recorded as they are earned by the employees, rather than when the contributions are made by the governments to the pension plan or when the benefit payments are made to retirees.”


Where we are headed• “The proposed statements relate to accounting

and financial reporting, not to how governments approach the funding of their pension plans. Pension funding is a policy decision made by government officials.”

• GASB is “divorcing” accounting and funding


Where we are headed• Proposed solution

• Net Pension Liability• Difference between obligation for pensions and assets of the

pension plan• Measured at the employer’s fiscal year end• Record as liability in all the accrual basis financial statements

• Increased disclosure


Where we are headed• What does this mean for IMRF?

• Liability – an amount similar to the current UAAL currently disclosed in the RSI and notes would be recorded as a long-term liability

• Disclosure - Similar but increased disclosures (# of plan members, etc.)


Where we are headed• What does this mean for TRS?

• Liability – “the employer government (district) would calculate its net pension liability and related financial statement elements, prior to the other government’s (state) support, but would recognize amounts net of the other government’s (state) proportionate share.”


Where we are headed• What does this mean for TRS?

• Disclosure – much more enhanced and would have an RSI schedule

• Disclosure would be similar to the current IMRF disclosure• Would include the district’s share of the amounts and the

amounts assumed by the state• Would also include the information for TRS as a whole

Pension Issues

IMRF• Field audits began several years ago• Biggest finding related to reporting is proper

accounting of IMRF and SS in IMRF fund– IMRF desires separate accounting of both types of

revenues and expenditures, along with related fund balance

– May require adjustments to future levies

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