GORMAN RUPP CO New Standards Disclosure
New Accounting Pronouncements
The Company considers the applicability and impact of all Accounting Standard Updates (“ASUs”) issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”). All recently issued ASUs were assessed and determined either to be not applicable or are expected to have minimal impact on the Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements.
The FASB issued ASU 2023-07, Segment Reporting (Topic 280): Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosures, requiring public entities to disclose information about their reportable segments’ significant expenses and other segment items on an interim and annual basis. Public entities with a single reportable segment are required to apply the disclosure requirements in ASU 2023-07, as well as all existing segment disclosures and reconciliation requirements in ASC 280 on an interim and annual basis. The Company adopted ASU 2023-07 during the year ended December 31, 2024. See Note 11 - Business Segment Information in the accompanying notes to the consolidated financial statements for further detail.
The FASB issued ASU 2023-09, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures. The standard is intended to enhance the transparency and decision usefulness of income tax disclosures. This amendment modifies the rules on income tax disclosures to require entities to disclose (1) specific categories in the rate reconciliation and additional information for reconciling items that meet a quantitative threshold, (2) the amount of income taxes paid, net of refunds received, disaggregated by federal, state, and foreign taxes, as well as individual jurisdictions in which income taxes paid is equal to or greater than 5 percent of total income taxes paid, (3) the income or loss from continuing operations before income tax expense or benefit disaggregated between domestic and foreign, and (4) income tax expense or benefit from continuing operations disaggregated by federal, state and foreign. The standard is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2024. The standard should be applied on a prospective basis, while retrospective application is permitted. The Company does not anticipate the adoption to have a material impact on the Company's financial disclosures.
The FASB issued ASU 2024-03, Income Statement - Reporting Comprehensive Income – Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40). The standard is intended to enhance the transparency of business expenses in commonly presented expense captions. This amendment requires entities to disclose the following amounts in each relevant income statement expense caption (1) purchases of inventory, (2) employee compensation, (3) depreciation, and (4) intangible asset amortization. Entities are also required to disclose the total amount of selling expense and the entities definition of selling expenses. The standard is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2026. The standard should be applied on a prospective basis, while retrospective application is permitted. The Company is evaluating the impact of the standard on the Company's financial disclosures.
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.