New Accounting Standards
Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses: In November 2024, the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") issued final guidance designed to enhance financial reporting by requiring public business entities to disclose additional details regarding specific expense categories in the notes to the financial statements for both interim and annual periods. The new guidance is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2026 and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2027. The Company is not early adopting this guidance. As the guidance is disclosure related, adoption will not have any impact on the Company's Consolidated Financial Statements.
Internal-use Software: In September 2025, the FASB issued final guidance designed to modernize the accounting for software costs that are accounted for as "internal-use software." This new guidance removes all previous references to project stages. It requires capitalization of software costs when (i) management has authorized and committed to funding the software project and (ii) it is probable that the project will be completed and the software will be used to perform the function intended. The new guidance is effective for annual and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2027. Early adoption is permitted as of the beginning of an annual reporting period. The Company is currently evaluating the impact that this new standard will have on its Consolidated Financial Statements.
Recently Adopted Accounting Standards
Income Taxes: In December 2023, the FASB issued final guidance designed to improve income tax disclosures, particularly disclosures around business entities' income tax rate reconciliation and income taxes paid. The guidance requires consistent categories and greater disaggregation of information in the reconciliation of an entity's statutory tax rate to its effective tax rate and information about income taxes paid disaggregated by jurisdiction. As allowed by the guidance, the Company adopted this guidance prospectively effective January 1, 2025. As the guidance is disclosure related, adoption did not have any impact on the Company's Consolidated Financial Statements. The required disclosure is included in Note 14 – Income Taxes.
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.