Note 2—Basis of Presentation and Accounting Developments

Basis of Presentation

The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared in compliance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“GAAP”) as codified in the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) for interim financial information and with the SEC’s instructions to Form 10-Q and Rule 10-01 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, these financial statements and notes do not include all of the information required by GAAP for complete financial statements. This interim consolidated information should be read together with the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017.

The accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements reflect all normal recurring adjustments necessary to present fairly the financial position, income, and cash flows for the interim periods, but are not necessarily indicative of income to be anticipated for the full year ending December 31, 2018. Intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated.

Preparation of financial statements in compliance with GAAP requires management to make judgments and estimates that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, and revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results will likely differ from those estimates.

Accounting Developments

Accounting Changes

During the nine months ended September 30, 2018, the Company adopted changes to the accounting principles used in the preparation of its financial statements summarized below.

Mortgage Servicing Rights

Effective January 1, 2018, the Company has elected to change the accounting for the classes of mortgage servicing rights (“MSRs”) it had accounted for using the amortization method through December 31, 2017, to the fair value method as allowed in the Transfers and Servicing topic of the FASB’s ASC. The Company determined that a single accounting treatment across all currently existing classes of MSRs is consistent with lender valuation under its financing arrangements and simplifies the Company’s hedging activities. As the result of this change, the Company recorded an adjustment to increase its investment in MSRs of $848,000, an increase in its liability for income taxes payable of $72,000 and an increase in stockholders’ equity of $776,000.

Revenue Recognition

In May 2014, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Subtopic 606) (“ASU 2014-09”), which supersedes the guidance in the Revenue Recognition topic of the ASC. Effective January 1, 2018, the Company adopted ASU 2014-09 as amended using the modified retrospective method. The adoption of ASU 2014-09 did not require the Company to record a cumulative effect adjustment to its beginning retained earnings.

The Company’s revenues from contracts with customers that are subject to ASU 2014-09 include fulfillment fees, management fees and certain reimbursed overhead costs. Other revenue and income streams are not subject to ASU 2014-09 as they are financial instruments or other contractual rights and obligations accounted for under the Receivables, Investments and Debt and Equity Securities, Transfers and Servicing, Financial Instruments and Derivatives and Hedging topics of the ASC.

Fulfillment fees

Fulfillment fees represent fees the Company collects for services it performs on behalf of PMT in connection with the acquisition, packaging and sale of mortgage loans. Fulfillment fee amounts are based upon a negotiated fee schedule and the unpaid principal balance of the mortgage loans purchased by PMT. The Company’s obligation under the agreement is fulfilled when PMT completes the sale or securitization of a mortgage loan it purchases. Fulfillment fees are generally collected within 30 days of purchase by PMT, although a portion of the fulfillment fees may not be collected until 30 days following sale or securitization to the extent such sale or securitization does not occur in the month of purchase. Fulfillment fee revenue is recognized in the month the fee is earned. Fulfillment fees receivable contract assets are disclosed in Note 4—Transactions with Affiliates.

Management fees

Management fees represent compensation to the Company for its management services provided to the Advised Entities. Management fees are earned based on PMT’s shareholders’ equity amounts and the Investment Funds’ net assets and profitability in excess of specified thresholds, and are recognized as services are provided and are paid to the Company on a quarterly basis within 30 days of the end of the quarter. Management fees receivable contract assets are disclosed in Note 4—Transactions with Affiliates.

Carried Interest

The Company’s Carried Interest arrangements with the Investment Funds represented capital allocations to the Company. As a result, the Company has concluded as part of its assessment of the effect of the adoption of
ASU 2014-09 that its Carried Interest represented an equity method investment subject to the Investments – Equity Method and Joint Ventures topic of the ASC. Therefore, effective January 1, 2018, the Company recharacterized its Carried Interest as financial instruments under the equity method of accounting. Carried Interest balances are included in Other assets and are disclosed in Note 9—Carried Interest Due from Investment Funds.

Expense reimbursements

Under the Company’s management agreement with PMT, PMT is required to pay its pro rata portion of rent, telephone, utilities, office furniture, equipment, machinery and other office, internal and overhead expenses of the Company and its affiliates required for PMT’s and its subsidiaries’ operations. These expenses are allocated based on the ratio of PMT’s proportion of gross assets compared to all remaining gross assets managed by the Company as calculated at each fiscal quarter end. Before the adoption of ASU 2014-09, the Company accounted for such reimbursements as reductions to expenses. With the adoption of ASU 2014-09, the Company is required to include such expense reimbursements in its net revenues. As a result of the adoption of ASU 2014-09, beginning in 2018 certain overhead reimbursement amounts were reclassified from the following expense line items to Other revenue as summarized below:


	Quarter ended		Nine months ended
Income statement line	September 30, 2018		September 30, 2018
	(in thousands)
Occupancy and equipment	$	718	$	1,954
Technology		315		837
Compensation		120		360
Other		177		596
Total expense reimbursements included in Other revenue	$	1,330	$	3,747

Cash Flows

During the nine months ended September 30, 2018, the Company adopted ASU 2016-18, Statement of Cash Flows (Topic 230) – Restricted Cash (“ASU 2016-18”). ASU 2016-18 requires that a statement of cash flows explain the change during the reporting period in the total of cash, cash equivalents, and amounts generally described as restricted cash or restricted cash equivalents. Therefore, amounts generally described as restricted cash and restricted cash equivalents should be included with cash and cash equivalents when reconciling the beginning-of-period and end-of-period total amounts shown on the consolidated statement of cash flows. Accordingly, the Company retrospectively changed the presentation of its consolidated statements of cash flows to conform to the requirements of ASU 2016-18.

For the purpose of reporting the statement of cash flows, the Company has identified tenant security deposits relating to rental properties owned by PMT and managed by the Company as restricted cash. The tenant security deposits are included in Other assets on the Company’s consolidated balance sheets. As the result of adoption of ASU 2016-18, the Company’s consolidated statements of cash flows for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 changed as follows:


		As previously		Effect of adoption
		reported		of ASU 2016-18		As reported
	(in thousands)
Cash flow from operating activities	$	(646,441)	$	175	$	(646,266)
Cash and restricted cash at end of period	$	67,708	$	450	$	68,158

Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncement

In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842) (“ASU 2016-02”). ASU 2016-02 changes the standards for the recognition, measurement, presentation and disclosure of leases for both parties to a contract (i.e., lessees and lessors). ASU 2016-02 requires lessees to apply a dual approach, classifying leases as either finance or operating leases based on the principle of whether the lease is effectively a financed purchase of the leased asset by the lessee. A lessee is also required to record a right-of-use asset and a lease liability for all leases with a term of greater than 12 months regardless of their classification.

ASU 2016-02 is effective for the Company for reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2018. The Company is currently assessing the potential effect that the adoption of ASU 2016-02 will have on its consolidated financial statements. As shown in Note 14 – Commitments and Contingencies, the Company had approximately $89.2 million in future minimum lease payment commitments as of September 30, 2018. Were the Company to adopt ASU 2016-02 as of September 30, 2018, it would be required to recognize a right-of-use asset and a corresponding liability based on the present value of such obligation as of September 30, 2018. The Company does not expect to recognize a significant cumulative effect adjustment to its stockholders’ equity as a result of adopting
ASU 2016-02.