Recent Accounting Pronouncements

Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements
In September 2025, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (the "FASB") issued ASU No. 2025-07 (“ASU 2025-07”), Derivatives and Hedging (Topic 815) ("Topic 815") and "Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606)." The guidance refines the scope of Topic 815 to clarify which contracts are subject to derivative accounting. This ASU also provides clarification under Topic 606 for share-based payments from a customer in a revenue contract. The amendments in ASU 2025-07 are effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim reporting periods, with early adoption permitted. The Company adopted ASU No. 2025-07 during the fiscal quarter ending November 2, 2025. See Note 9. Participation Interest Purchase Agreement for discussion on the impact of the adoption.
In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU No. 2023-09, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures, which enhances annual income tax disclosure requirements, including additional information related to the effective tax rate reconciliation and income taxes paid. The Company adopted this guidance on a retrospective basis during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026. Adoption of the ASU did not impact the Company's consolidated financial position, results of operations, cash flows, or earnings per share, but resulted in enhanced income tax disclosures in the notes to the consolidated financial statements. See Note 16, Income Taxes.
Recently Issued But Not Yet Adopted
In September 2025, the FASB issued ASU 2025-06, Intangibles—Goodwill and Other—Internal-Use Software (Subtopic
350-40): Targeted Improvements to the Accounting for Internal-Use Software (“ASU 2025-06”). ASU 2025-06 modernizes and simplifies the accounting for software development costs by establishing a single capitalization framework for all internally developed or acquired software, regardless of whether the software is intended for internal use, to be sold, or to be used in delivering products and services. The new guidance retains the concept of project stages but eliminates the historical distinction between internal-use software and software to be sold or marketed. ASU 2025-06 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2027, including interim periods within those fiscal years, with early adoption permitted. The guidance is required to be applied prospectively, with optional retrospective or modified retrospective transition methods. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of ASU 2025-06 on its consolidated financial statements.
In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU No. 2024-03, "Income Statement - Reporting Comprehensive Income - Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses", which is intended to enhance expense disclosures by requiring additional disaggregation of certain costs and expenses, on an interim and annual basis, within the footnotes to the financial statements. The guidance will be effective for annual disclosures beginning in Fiscal 2028 and subsequent interim periods. Early adoption is permitted and the amendments may be applied either prospectively or retrospectively. The Company is evaluating the impact that adopting this guidance will have on the Company's disclosures.
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Fiscal YearFiled
2026Jul 9, 2026Showing above
2025Dec 23, 2025
2024Jul 1, 2024
2021Jun 30, 2021
2020Jul 14, 2020
2019Jun 25, 2019
2018Jun 20, 2018
2017Jul 12, 2017

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.