Immuneering CorpIMRX
Immuneering Corp New Standards Disclosure
Recently Issued But Not Yet Adopted Accounting Pronouncements and Legislation
From time to time, new accounting pronouncements are issued by the FASB or other standard setting bodies and adopted by the Company as of the specified effective date. The Company is an “emerging growth company” as defined in the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012, as amended (the "JOBS Act"). The JOBS Act provides that an emerging growth company can take advantage of an extended transition period for complying with new or revised accounting standards. Thus, an emerging growth company can delay the adoption of certain accounting standards until those standards would otherwise apply to private companies. The Company elected to avail itself of this extended transition period and, as a result, the Company will not be required to adopt certain new or revised accounting standards on the relevant dates on which adoption of such standards is required for other public companies.
In November 2024, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update ("ASU") No. 2024-03, Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income—Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40) (“ASU 2024-03”). The guidance in ASU 2024-03 aims to improve disclosures around an entity's expenses. Upon adoption, companies will be required to disclose in the notes to the financial statements a disaggregation of certain expense categories included within the expense captions on the face of the income statement. The standard is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2026 and interim periods in fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2027, with early adoption permitted. The Company is currently evaluating this standard's potential impact on its consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act ("OBBBA") was enacted on July 4, 2025. The Company has evaluated whether OBBBA has a material impact on its 2025 financial statements. The only provision of OBBBA that impacts the Company’s income tax accounting under ASC740 is the new IRC. Sec. 174A, which permanently allows taxpayers to fully expense domestic research or experimental ("R&E") expenditures paid or incurred in taxable years beginning after Dec. 31, 2024. The requirement to capitalize foreign Sec. 174 expenses over 15 years has not changed. On August 28, 2025, the IRS released procedural guidance (Rev. Proc. 2025-28) for implementing Section 174A and related elections for domestic research or experimental. Transition rules provide taxpayers with options to account for any remaining unamortized domestic R&E expenditures paid or incurred in taxable years beginning after December 31, 2021, and before January 1, 2025. Taxpayers may continue to amortize such unamortized amounts over the remaining five-year period; alternatively, they may elect to deduct any remaining unamortized domestic R&E expenditures either entirely in the first tax year beginning after December 31, 2024, or ratably over two taxable years (e.g., 2025 or ratably in 2025 and 2026). The Company has decided it will elect to continue to amortize previously capitalized and unamortized domestic R&E expenditures over the remaining five-year period. As of December 31, 2024, the company had approximately $77.8 million of remaining unamortized domestic R&E expenditures, representing approximately $17.1 million of its gross deferred tax asset. As of December 31, 2025, the company had approximately $54.7 million of remaining unamortized domestic R&E expenditures, representing approximately $12.0 million of its gross deferred tax asset.
In December 2025, the FASB issued Update ASU 2025-11, "Interim Reporting (Topic 270): Narrow-Scope Improvements". This ASU clarifies and improves existing interim reporting guidance by consolidating disclosure requirements within Topic 270 and introducing a disclosure principle requiring entities to disclose events and changes occurring after the most recent annual reporting period that are expected to have a material effect on the entity's financial condition or results of operations. The ASU does not introduce significant changes to recognition or measurement guidance. The amendments in this Update are effective for interim reporting periods within annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027, with early adoption permitted. We are currently evaluating the effect of adopting this pronouncement on our financial statements and disclosures.
Historical Timeline
| Fiscal Year | Filed | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Mar 6, 2026 | Showing above |
| 2024 | Mar 20, 2025 | |
| 2023 | Mar 1, 2024 | |
| 2022 | Mar 6, 2023 | |
| 2021 | Mar 10, 2022 | |
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.