Accounting Changes and Recent Accounting Pronouncements:
New Accounting Pronouncements Recently Adopted
Fiscal 2025
In November 2023, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2023-07, Segment Reporting (Topic 280): Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosures. The ASU is intended to improve reportable segment disclosure requirements, primarily through enhanced disclosures about significant expenses. The ASU requires disclosures to include significant segment expenses that are regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker (CODM), a description of other segment items by reportable segment, and allows the disclosure of additional measures of a segment’s profit or loss used by the CODM when deciding how to allocate resources. The ASU also requires all annual disclosures currently required by Topic 280 to be included in interim periods. The Company adopted ASU 2023-07 in fiscal 2025. Refer to Note Q - Segment Reporting for the updated disclosures.
Fiscal 2024
No new accounting standards were adopted during fiscal 2024.
Fiscal 2023
No new accounting standards were adopted during fiscal 2023.
New Accounting Pronouncements Not Yet Adopted
In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-09 Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures. The update is intended to enhance transparency and decision usefulness of annual income tax disclosures. The ASU updates income tax disclosure requirements by requiring specific categories and greater disaggregation within the rate reconciliation and disaggregation of income taxes paid by jurisdiction. The ASU is effective for the Company's fiscal year ending October 25, 2026. The Company is currently assessing the impact of adopting the updated provisions.
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. Subsequently, in January 2025, the FASB issued ASU 2025-01 Income Statement - Reporting Comprehensive Income - Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Clarifying the Effective Date. The new guidance is intended to provide investors more detailed disclosures around specific types of expenses. The new disclosures require certain details for expenses presented on the face of the Consolidated Statements of Operations as well as selling expenses to be presented in the notes to the financial statements. As clarified by ASU 2025-01, the guidance is effective for the Company's fiscal year ending October 29, 2028, and subsequent interim periods thereafter. The disclosure updates are required to be applied prospectively with the option for retrospective application. The Company is currently assessing the impact of adopting the updated guidance.
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. The new guidance is intended to modernize the accounting for internal-use software costs and better align recognition practices. The update introduces principles-based criteria entities must consider to begin capitalizing costs based on management authorization and project completion probability. The guidance is effective for the Company's fiscal year ending October 28, 2029, and subsequent interim periods thereafter, with early adoption permitted. Several transition approaches are available including prospective, retrospective, and a modified transition approach. The Company is currently assessing the impact, transition approach, and timing of adoption.
Recently issued accounting standards or pronouncements not disclosed have been excluded as they are currently not relevant to the Company.