LiveWire Group, Inc.LVWR
LiveWire Group, Inc. New Standards Disclosure
New Accounting Standards
Accounting Standards Adopted in 2025
In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU No. 2023-09, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures, which is intended to enhance the transparency and decision usefulness of income tax disclosures. The main provisions of ASU 2023-09 require a public entity to disclose on an annual basis (i) specific prescribed categories in the rate reconciliation, (ii) additional information for reconciling items that meet a quantitative threshold, (iii) the amount of income taxes paid, net of refunds received, disaggregated by federal, state, and foreign taxes, (iv) the amount of income taxes paid, net of refunds received, disaggregated by individual jurisdictions in which income taxes paid is equal to greater than 5 percent of total income taxes paid, (v) income or loss from continuing operations before income tax expense or benefit disaggregated between domestic and foreign, and (vi) income tax expense or benefit from continuing operations disaggregated by federal, state, and foreign. ASU 2023-09 also removes certain disclosure requirements related to unrecognized tax benefits and cumulative unrecognized temporary differences. The new guidance is effective for the fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024. The Company adopted this guidance as of January 1, 2025, which resulted in additional disclosures in Note 5 Income Taxes related to the items described above. The guidance will be applied prospectively.
Accounting Standards Not Yet Adopted
In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU No. 2024-03, Income Statement - Reporting Comprehensive Income - Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40), which is intended to improve the disclosures about a public business entity's expenses and provide more detailed information about the types of expenses (including purchases of inventory, employee compensation, depreciation, amortization, and depletion) in commonly presented expense captions (such as cost of goods sold and selling, administrative and engineering expense). The main provisions of ASU 2024-03 require a public entity at each interim and annual reporting period to (i) disclose the amounts of purchases of inventory, employee compensation, depreciation, intangible asset amortization, and depletion included in each relevant expense caption presented on the face of the income statement within continuing operations, (ii) include certain amounts that are already required to be disclosed under current generally accepted accounting principles in the same disclosure as the other disaggregation requirements, (iii) disclose a qualitative description of the amounts remaining in relevant expense captions that are not separately disaggregated quantitatively, and (iv) disclose the total amount of selling expenses and, in annual reporting periods, an entity's definition of selling expenses. In January 2025, the FASB issued ASU No. 2025-01, Income Statement - Reporting Comprehensive Income - Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40) Clarifying the Effective Date, which is intended to clarify the effective date of ASU No. 2024-03. As clarified in ASU 2025-01, the new guidance is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim reporting periods within annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027. Early adoption is permitted. The Company is still evaluating the impact ASU 2024-03 will have on the Company's consolidated financial statement disclosures.
In July 2025, the FASB issued ASU No. 2025-05, Financial Instruments – Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses for Accounts Receivable and Contract Assets, which is intended to reduce complexity related to estimating expected credit losses for current accounts receivable and current contract asset balances accounted for under Topic 606. The main provisions of ASU 2025-05 provide (i) a practical expedient that allows all entities to assume that conditions as of the balance sheet date will not change for the remaining life of the asset when developing reasonable and supportable forecasts as part of estimating expected credit losses accounted for under Topic 606 and (ii) an accounting policy election available to entities other than public business entities which allows such entities that elect the practical expedient to consider collection activity after the balance sheet date when estimating expected credit losses for current accounts receivable and current contract assets arising from transactions accounted for under Topic 606. The new guidance is effective for the fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2025. Early adoption is permitted in both interim and annual reporting periods. If elected, the amendments in ASU 2025-05 should be applied prospectively. The adoption of ASU 2025-05 is not expected to have a material impact on the consolidated financial statements.
In September 2025, the FASB issued ASU No. 2025-06, Intangibles – Goodwill and Other Internal-Use Software (Subtopic 350-40): Targeted Improvements to the Accounting for Internal-Use Software, which is intended to modernize the accounting for internal-use software costs. The main provisions of ASU 2025-06 remove all references to prescriptive and sequential software development stages and require capitalization of software costs when both (i) management has authorized and committed to funding the software project and (ii) it is probable the project will be completed and the software will be used to perform the function intended (the “probable-to-complete recognition threshold”). In evaluating the probable-to-complete recognition threshold, consideration is given to whether there is significant uncertainty associated with the development activities of the software (“significant development uncertainty”). Significant development uncertainty considers whether (i) the software being developed has technological innovations or novel, unique, or unproven functions or features, and the uncertainty related to those technological innovations, functions, or features, if identified, that have not been resolved through coding and testing and (ii) a determination has been made regarding what the software needs to do (for example, functions or features), including whether the software’s significant performance requirements have been identified or are being substantially revised. The new guidance is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027, including interim periods within those annual periods. Early adoption is permitted at the beginning of an annual reporting period. Entities may apply the guidance using one of three transition approaches: prospective, modified, or retrospective. The prospective approach applies the new guidance to software costs incurred from the adoption date forward. The modified approach also applies prospectively but requires derecognition of certain in-process project costs through a cumulative-effect adjustment to retained earnings. The retrospective approach involves restating prior periods and adjusting retained earnings at the beginning of the first period presented. The Company is still evaluating the impact ASU 2025-06 will have on its consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.
In December 2025, the FASB issued ASU 2025-11, Interim Reporting (Topic 270): Narrow-Scope Improvements, which is intended to improve the navigability of the required interim disclosures and clarify when the guidance is applicable. The amendments also provide additional guidance on what disclosures should be provided in interim reporting periods. The amendments add to Topic 270 a principle that requires entities to disclose events since the end of the last annual reporting period that have a material impact on the entity. The Board does not intend to change the fundamental nature of interim reporting or expand or reduce current interim disclosure requirements, which were determined by prior Boards when the disclosure requirements were initially issued. Rather, the objective of the amendments is to provide clarity on the current interim reporting requirements. The new guidance is effective for the fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2027. Early adoption is permitted in both interim and annual reporting periods. If elected, the amendments in ASU 2025-11 may be applied prospectively or retrospectively. The Company is still evaluating the impact ASU 2025-06 will have on its consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.
Historical Timeline
| Fiscal Year | Filed | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Feb 20, 2026 | Showing above |
| 2024 | Feb 21, 2025 | |
| 2023 | Feb 23, 2024 | |
About New Standards Disclosures
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