Exhibit 99.6
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Appendix
- Financial Outlook
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Securities Ratings for Exelon and its Subsidiary Companies
Standard &
Poors Fitch Investors Service,
Securities Moody's Corporation Inc.
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Exelon Senior unsecured debt Baa2 BBB+ BBB+
Commercial paper P2 A2 F2
ComEd Senior secured debt A3 A- A-
Senior unsecured debt Baa1 BBB+ BBB+
Commercial paper P2 A2 F2
PECO Senior secured debt A2 A A
Senior unsecured debt A3 BBB+ A-
Commercial paper P1 A2 F1
Generation Senior unsecured debt Baa1 A- BBB+
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New Accounting Pronouncements
SFAS No. 143
SFAS No. 143 provides accounting requirements for retirement obligations
associated with tangible long-lived assets. Exelon expects to adopt SFAS No. 143
on January 1, 2003. Retirement obligations associated with long-lived assets
included within the scope of SFAS No. 143 are those for which there is a legal
obligation to settle under existing or enacted law, statute, written or oral
contract or by legal construction under the doctrine of promissory estoppel.
Adoption of SFAS No. 143 will change the accounting for the decommissioning of
Exelon's nuclear generating plants. Currently, Exelon records the obligation for
decommissioning ratably over the lives of the plants. The January 1, 2003
adoption of this standard will require a cumulative effect adjustment effective
the date of adoption to adjust plant assets and decommissioning liabilities to
the values they would have been had this standard been employed from the
in-service dates of the plants.
The effect of this cumulative adjustment will be to increase the decommissioning
liability to reflect a full decommissioning obligation in current year dollars.
Additionally, the standard will require the accrual of an asset related to the
full amount of the decommissioning obligation, which will be amortized over the
remaining lives of the plants. The difference between the asset recognized and
the liability recorded upon adoption of the standard will be charged to earnings
and recognized as a cumulative effect, net of expected regulatory recovery. The
decommissioning liability to be recorded represents an obligation for the future
decommissioning of the plants, and as a result interest expense will be accrued
on this liability until such time as the obligation is satisfied.
Exelon is in the process of evaluating the impact of SFAS No. 143 on its
financial statements, and cannot determine the ultimate impact of adoption at
this time, however the cumulative effect could be material to Exelon's earnings.
Additionally, although over the life of the plant the charges to earnings for
the depreciation of the asset and the interest on the liability will be equal to
the amounts currently recognized as decommissioning expense, the timing of those
charges will change and in the near-term period subsequent to adoption, the
depreciation of the asset and the interest on the liability could result in an
increase in expense.
Exelon Corporation 2001 Annual Report to Shareholders, Page 51