AMBARELLA INC New Standards Disclosure
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
In December 2023, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Accounting Standard Update (ASU) 2023-09, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures. This new guidance requires additional disclosures related to effective tax rate reconciliation, disaggregated income taxes paid and other modified income tax-related disclosures. The ASU shall be applied on a prospective basis with retrospective application permitted, and is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024. Early adoption is permitted. The Company adopted this new guidance on a prospective basis in fiscal year 2026. There was no material impact on its consolidated financial statements from the adoption of this new guidance. Refer to Note 14 Income Taxes for further information.
In November 2024, the FASB issued Accounting Standard Update (ASU) 2024-03, Income Statement - Reporting Comprehensive Income - Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses. This new guidance requires public entities to provide disaggregated disclosures, in the notes to the financial statements, of certain categories of expenses that are included in expense line items on the face of income statement. The ASU may be applied prospectively or retrospectively and is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2026 and for interim periods beginning after December 15, 2027. Early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of adoption of this new guidance on its consolidated financial statements and disclosures.
In July 2025, the FASB issued ASU 2025-05, Financial Instruments — Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses for Accounts Receivable and Contract Assets. This new guidance simplifies the estimation of credit losses on current accounts receivable and current contract assets arising from transactions accounted for under Accounting Standard Codification (ASC) 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers, and allows all entities to elect a practical expedient to assume that the current conditions as of the balance sheet date will remain unchanged for the remaining life of the asset when developing a reasonable and supportable forecast as part of estimating expected credit losses on these assets. The new guidance is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2025, and interim periods within those fiscal years. Early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of adoption of this new guidance on its consolidated financial statements and disclosures.
In September 2025, the FASB issued ASU 2025-06, Intangibles — Goodwill and Other — Internal-Use Software (Subtopic 350-40): Accounting for and Disclosure of Software Costs. This new guidance removes all references to project stages throughout ASC 350-40 and clarifies the threshold entities apply to begin capitalizing costs. The new guidance also specifies that the disclosures under ASC 360-10, Property, Plant, and Equipment — Overall apply to capitalized software costs accounted for under Subtopic 350-40, regardless of how those costs are presented in the financial statements. The new guidance may be applied using a prospective, retrospective or modified transition approach, and it is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2027 and interim periods within those fiscal years. Early adoption is permitted. The Company early adopted this new guidance using a prospective transition approach and there was no material impact on its consolidated financial statements and disclosures.
Historical Timeline
| Fiscal Year | Filed | |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Mar 23, 2026 | Showing above |
| 2025 | Mar 28, 2025 | |
| 2024 | Mar 29, 2024 | |
| 2023 | Mar 31, 2023 | |
| 2022 | Apr 1, 2022 | |
| 2021 | Mar 31, 2021 | |
| 2020 | Mar 27, 2020 | |
| 2019 | Mar 29, 2019 | |
| 2018 | Mar 30, 2018 | |
| 2017 | Mar 30, 2017 | |
| 2016 | Mar 25, 2016 | |
About New Standards Disclosures
New accounting standards disclosures describe recently adopted pronouncements and those not yet effective, along with management's assessment of their expected impact. This section provides an early warning system for upcoming changes to how a company reports its financial results, often years before the new rules take effect.
Key signals: when management describes a not-yet-adopted standard's impact as "material" or "still being evaluated," it signals potential significant changes to reported metrics upon adoption. Watch for standards that affect a company's core operations — for example, revenue recognition changes for software companies or lease accounting changes for retailers with large store footprints. The transition method chosen (full retrospective versus modified retrospective) affects comparability with prior periods. Companies that delay adoption to the latest permitted date may be struggling with implementation complexity. Compare the disclosed impact assessments against peers in the same industry to gauge whether management's expectations are reasonable.