Recently Adopted Accounting Guidance
Income Tax Disclosures: In December 2023, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2023-09, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures (“ASU 2023-09”). This update requires public business entities to disclose in their income tax rate reconciliation table additional categories of information about federal, state, and foreign income taxes and to provide additional details about the reconciling items in categories meeting a quantitative threshold. The guidance will also require entities to disclose income taxes paid, net of refunds, disaggregated by federal, state, and foreign taxes for annual periods and to disaggregate the information by jurisdiction based
on a quantitative threshold. The additional disclosures are required to be provided on a prospective basis with the option to provide retrospectively. The amendments are effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024. The Company adopted ASU 2023-09 retrospectively during the fourth quarter of 2025 and prior period disclosures have been recast to conform to the current year presentation. Refer to Note 16 for the additional required income tax disclosures upon adoption of this ASU.
Recent Accounting Guidance Issued Not Yet Effective
Expense Disaggregation Disclosures: In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU 2024-03, Income Statement – Reporting Comprehensive Income – Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses (“ASU 2024-03”). This update requires public entities to disaggregate income statement expense line items and to disclose in tabular format within the notes to the financial statements certain categories of costs (e.g. purchases of inventory, employee compensation, deprecation, intangible asset amortization, depletion etc.) to the extent line items contain such costs. In addition, entities will be required to define and disclose selling expenses. The additional disclosures may be provided prospectively or retrospectively. The amendments are effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim periods within annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027. Early adoption is permitted. The Company will provide the additional required disclosures upon adoption.
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.