ADT Inc.ADT
ADT Inc. New Standards Disclosure
Accounting Standards Updates (“ASU”)
Recently Adopted
Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures - ASU 2023-09, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures, focuses on improvements to income tax disclosures, primarily related to the rate reconciliation and income taxes paid information. In addition, the update includes certain other amendments to improve the effectiveness of income tax disclosures.
The Company adopted this guidance prospectively, effective January 1, 2025. The adoption of the new guidance did not have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements. Refer to Note 9 “Income Taxes” for expanded disclosures related to effective tax rate and income taxes paid.
Derivatives and Hedging (Topic 815) - ASU 2025-09, Hedge Accounting Improvements: Derivatives and Hedging, which provides targeted updates intended to simplify and improve the application of the hedge accounting.
This guidance is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim reporting periods within those annual reporting periods with early adoption permitted. The Company early adopted this guidance upon issuance in the fourth quarter of 2025. The adoption did not currently impact the Company’s consolidated financial statements or related disclosures. Refer to Note 7 “Debt” and Note 8 “Derivative Financial Instruments.”
Recently Issued
Interim Reporting - ASU 2025-11, Narrow-Scope Improvements (Topic 270): Interim Reporting is intended to improve navigability of the required interim disclosures and clarify when the guidance is applicable. The amendments also include additional guidance on what disclosures should be provided in interim reporting periods. The amendment adds to Topic 270 a principle that requires entities to disclose events since the end of the last annual reporting period that have a material impact on the entity.
This guidance is effective for interim reporting periods within annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027. Early adoption is permitted. The Company is evaluating the impact of this guidance on its disclosures.
Targeted Improvements to the Accounting for Internal-Use Software - ASU 2025-06, Intangibles — Goodwill and Other (Subtopic 350-40): Targeted Improvements to the Accounting for Internal-Use Software, removes all references to prescriptive and sequential software development stages, requiring an entity to start capitalizing software costs when management has authorized and committed to funding the software project and it is probable that the project will be completed and the software will be used to perform the function intended, as well as other evaluation and disclosure updates.
This guidance is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027, and interim reporting periods within those annual reporting periods. Early adoption is permitted as of the beginning of an annual reporting period.
The amendments in this ASU permit an entity to apply the new guidance using a prospective transition approach, a modified transition approach that is based on the status of the project and whether software costs were capitalized before the date of adoption, and a retrospective transition approach. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of this guidance on its financial statements and disclosures.
Measurement of Credit Losses for Accounts Receivable and Contract Assets - ASU 2025-05, Financial Instruments—Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses for Accounts Receivable and Contract Assets, provides entities a practical expedient when estimating expected credit losses for current accounts receivable and current contract assets, permitting the use of current conditions as of the balance sheet date when developing related forecasts and assumptions.
This guidance will be adopted effective January 1, 2026, and will be applied prospectively. The adoption of the new guidance is not expected to have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.
Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses - ASU 2024-03, Income Statement — Reporting Comprehensive Income — Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses, requires additional disclosure in the footnotes at each interim and annual reporting period about specific types of expenses included in the expense captions presented on the face of the statement of operations as well as additional disclosures that also include information related to selling expenses.
The guidance is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027. The requirements will be applied prospectively with the option for retrospective application. Early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of this guidance on its financial statements and disclosures.
Disclosure Improvements - ASU 2023-06, Disclosure Improvements: Codification Amendments in Response to the SEC’s Disclosure Update and Simplification Initiative, represents changes to clarify or improve disclosure and presentation requirements of a variety of topics.
The effective date for each amendment will be the date on which the SEC’s removal of that related disclosure from Regulation S-X or Regulation S-K becomes effective, with early adoption prohibited. The Company is monitoring the potential impact of this guidance on its financial statements and disclosures.
Historical Timeline
| Fiscal Year | Filed | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Mar 2, 2026 | Showing above |
| 2024 | Feb 27, 2025 | |
| 2023 | Feb 28, 2024 | |
| 2022 | Feb 28, 2023 | |
| 2021 | Mar 1, 2022 | |
| 2018 | Mar 11, 2019 | |
About New Standards Disclosures
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