New Accounting Standards

 

In November 2024, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (the “FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2024-03 “Income Statement – Reporting Comprehensive Income – Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses.” This ASU requires public business entities to disclose, for interim and annual reporting periods, additional information about certain income statement expense categories. The requirements are effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2026, and for interim periods beginning after December 15, 2027. Entities are permitted to apply either the prospective or retrospective transition methods. The Company is in the process of evaluating this ASU to determine its impact on the Company’s disclosures.

 

In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU 2024-04 “Debt with Conversion and Other Options (Subtopic 470-20)”. This ASU clarifies the requirements related to accounting for the settlement of a debt instrument as an induced conversion. An induced conversion is when a company induces debt holders to convert their debt into equity shares under changed terms and involved additional consideration. The amendments in this ASU are effective for all entities for annual reporting periods beginning January 1, 2026, and interim reporting periods within those annual reporting periods. The adoption of this ASU has not had a material effect on the Company’s financial position, results of operations or cash flows.

 

In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-09, Income Taxes: Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures, which requires disaggregated information about a reporting entity’s effective tax rate reconciliation as well as information on income taxes paid. The standard is intended to benefit investors by providing more detailed income tax disclosures that would be useful in making capital allocation decisions. The standard was effective for public companies for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024. The Company adopted the ASU on January 1, 2025 on a prospective basis. This standard did not affect the Company’s financial position, operating results, or cash flows (see Note 5).

 

The Company’s management has evaluated all other recently issued, but not yet effective, accounting standards and guidance that have been issued or proposed by the FASB or other standards-setting bodies through the filing date of these financial statements and does not believe the future adoption of any such pronouncements will have a material effect on the Company’s financial position and results of operations.

Historical Timeline

Fiscal YearFiled
2025Mar 2, 2026Showing above
2024Feb 26, 2025
2023Feb 21, 2024
2022Mar 30, 2023
2021Mar 15, 2022
2020Apr 15, 2021
2019Mar 30, 2020
2018Mar 29, 2019
2017Apr 2, 2018
2016Mar 30, 2017
2015Mar 28, 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.