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ARC-CECLReview · AVAILABLE

Your model, reviewed every year by the people who know it.

ARC-CECLReview is an annual, high-level review of your CECL model: your assumptions, segmentation, and results, checked by ARCSys specialists and written up with recommendations. It’s included with ARC-CECL, so you have an expert read on the model before the auditor, validator, or examiner asks.

Built on the same reconciled loan record as the rest of ARCSys.

A CECL process should not be left alone between one output and the next hard question.
ASSUMPTIONS · REVIEWEDRESULTS · REVIEWED
DOCUMENTATION · SUPPORTEDRECOMMENDATIONS · DELIVERED
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RECURRING EXPERT REVIEWASSUMPTIONS AND RESULTSSEGMENTATION REVIEWGOVERNANCE-READY DOCUMENTATION

A CECL process should not be left alone between one output and the next hard question.

An expert read on your model, every year.

A CECL process needs more than a periodic software output. ARC-CECLReview gives your team a high-level review of assumptions, segmentation, and results each year, with written recommendations. When a question needs loan-level or independent work, that is scoped separately.

Illustrative example
ASSUMPTION CHECKLIST ANNUAL
Prepayment · measured per loan✓
Loss history · window and segments✓
Forecast · unemployment path✓
Q-factor · basisRECOMMEND

Assumption review

Prepayment, loss, qualitative, and discount assumptions reviewed against your portfolio and the current environment.

Illustrative example
VARIANCE MEMO · THIS QUARTER +$412K
Indirect auto · slower prepayment+$268K
Office CRE · 3 downgrades+$121K
Forecast · unemployment up+$23K
Allowance $14.74M → $15.16M+2.8%

Results review

Allowance results reviewed for reasonableness and consistency, with the main drivers of the year’s movement summarized.

Illustrative example
WRITTEN RECOMMENDATION 01
FINDINGIndirect auto prepays more slowly than prime auto as rates rise. One pool hides the difference.
RECOMMENDATIONSplit the pool before the next close. Reasoning attached.

Segmentation review

Your segmentation and methodology choices reviewed by the specialists who build these models.

Illustrative example
GOING DEEPER SCOPED SEPARATELY
Loan-level drill-downARC-CECL
Root cause and back-testingMODEL ANALYSIS
Independent external reviewVALIDATION

When you need to go deeper

The annual review stays high level. Loan-level drill-down lives in ARC-CECL, and root-cause or independent work is scoped through Model Analysis or ALM & CECL Validation.

Illustrative example
DOCUMENTATION CHECKLIST 3 OF 4
Methodology memo✓
Assumption log · reviewed✓
Variance memo · this quarter✓
Annual review letterIN DRAFT

Documentation support

Supporting documentation reviewed so the process is reviewable, controlled, and ready for governance scrutiny.

Illustrative example
RECOMMENDATIONS 3
01 Split the auto poolNEXT CLOSE
02 Document Q-factor basisNEXT CLOSE
03 Add forecast path to memo✓
Reviewed with your team before the close✓

Written recommendations

Clear recommendations your team can act on before the next close, audit, or examination.

A RECURRING OPERATING PROCESS. NOT ONLY A LICENSE.

From annual review to the next close.

The review is scoped to your process and timed to what is coming: an annual review, a material portfolio or economic change, or increased model-governance scrutiny.

01
SCOPE THE REVIEW

Agree what will be reviewed: assumptions, segmentation, results, and documentation.

02
REVIEW ASSUMPTIONS AND RESULTS

Specialists review the inputs, the segmentation, and the results against your portfolio and the environment.

03
DOCUMENT FINDINGS

Findings and recommendations are written up for finance, risk, and governance stakeholders.

04
SUPPORT WHAT COMES NEXT

Findings ready for the audit, validation, or board question the review was preparing you for.

01
NAME THE TRIGGER

A material variance, a portfolio or economic change, a governance request, or a resource gap.

02
REVIEW THE DRIVERS

Specialists review the change and name the assumptions most likely behind it.

03
CONFIRM OR RECOMMEND

Expert confirmation of the approach, or a recommended change with the reasoning documented.

04
CARRY IT FORWARD

The explanation is ready for the next reviewer who asks.

[WHY IT MATTERS]

The right time to prepare for scrutiny is before the request arrives.

Annual review timing, a material change, increasing model-governance scrutiny, or an internal resource gap are all reasons the operating team needs more than a generic support channel. A review every year means the explanation is ready before anyone asks for it.

When your model risk policy calls for an independent, external review, ARCSys scopes it separately as ALM & CECL Validation and explains how independence is maintained.

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ASSUMPTION REVIEW · ANNUALScope, reviewer finding, and recommendationASSUMPTIONCURRENTFINDINGSTATUSLoss history window2007 – 2026AppropriateConfirmedPrepayment speedsPer loanAppropriateConfirmedEconomic forecastUnemployment pathRevised upwardConfirmedQualitative factorsManagement overlayDocument basisRecommendDiscount rateEffective yieldAppropriateConfirmedSegmentationAuto · one poolSplit indirectRecommend
ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE · ASSUMPTION REVIEW SCORECARD FROM THE ANNUAL CECL REVIEW
WHO IT IS FOR

Built for every seat
at the table

[OPERATING USER]

CECL owners, Controllers, and review teams

An expert read on assumptions, segmentation, and results, every year.

[CFO AND FINANCE LEADERSHIP]

A recurring operating process

Specialist review on a schedule, not only a software license.

[MODEL GOVERNANCE AND VALIDATORS]

A process that is documented, controlled, and reviewable

Scoped findings and supporting documentation that hold up when governance stakeholders ask.

Scope a CECL review with an ARCSys specialist

Bring the assumption you are least sure about and the date of your next audit, validation, or examination.