Where allocations of amounts were necessary, the Company believes the allocation of these amounts were determined on a reasonable basis related to the nature of the item (e.g., external revenue, operating expenses or headcount), reflecting all of the costs of the Company and consistently applied in the periods presented. These allocated amounts, however, are not necessarily indicative of the actual amounts that might have been incurred or realized had the Company operated as a separate stand-alone entity during the periods presented. Consequently, these Condensed Combined Carve-out Financial Statements do not necessarily represent the results the Company would have achieved if the Company had operated as a separate stand-alone entity from GE during the periods presented.
Current and deferred income taxes and related tax expenses have been determined based on the stand-alone results of the Company by applying Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 740, Income Taxes (“ASC 740”), issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”). While the Company is included in the consolidated U.S. federal income tax return and certain state and foreign income tax returns of GE, the income tax provision in the Combined Statements of Earnings has been calculated as if the Company filed a separate tax return.
The accompanying consolidated financial statements and notes are unaudited. The results reported in these consolidated financial statements should not be regarded as necessarily indicative of results that may be expected for the entire year. These consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the financial statements and notes for the year ended December 31, 2020.
NOTE 2. SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
PREPARATION OF CONDENSED COMBINED CARVE-OUT FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
The accounting and financial reporting policies of GECAS conform to U.S. GAAP, and the preparation of the Condensed Combined Carve-out Financial Statements is in conformity with U.S. GAAP, which requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect reported amounts and disclosures. Actual results could differ from those estimates and assumptions. In particular, a number of estimates have been and will continue to be affected by the ongoing Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The severity, magnitude and duration, as well as the economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, are uncertain, rapidly changing and difficult to predict. As a result, our accounting estimates and assumptions may change over time in response to COVID-19. We believe that the estimates, assumptions and judgments involved in flight equipment residual value, equipment impairment, allowance for credit losses, fair value measurement, actuarial assumptions used to determine costs on employee benefit plans, goodwill, accounting for income taxes and collectability of operating lease receivables have the greatest potential impact on our Condensed Combined Carve-out Financial Statements.
The functional currency for domestic and substantially all foreign operations is the U.S. dollar. Foreign currency transaction gains and losses are not significant to the Company’s operations.
Unless otherwise indicated, information in these notes to Condensed Combined Carve-out Financial Statements relates to continuing operations. Certain of our operations have been presented as discontinued. We present businesses that represent components as discontinued operations when the components meet the criteria for held for sale, are sold, or spun-off and their disposal represents a strategic shift that has, or will have, a major effect on our operations and financial results.
Our significant accounting policies are described in the notes to our financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2020.
ACCOUNTING CHANGES
On January 1, 2021, we adopted ASU No. 2019-12, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Simplifying the Accounting for Income Taxes. The ASU removes certain exceptions from the guidance in ASC 740 related to intra-period tax allocations, interim calculations and the recognition of deferred tax liabilities for outside basis differences and clarifies and simplifies several other aspects of accounting for income taxes. Different transition methods apply to the various income tax simplifications. For the changes requiring a retrospective or modified retrospective transition, the adoption of the new standard did not have a material impact to our financial statements.
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