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ALTRIA GROUP, INC. New Standards Disclosure
The following table provides a description of issued accounting guidance applicable to, but not yet adopted by, us:
| Standards | Description | Effective Date for Public Entity | Effect on Financial Statements | ||||||||
ASU Nos. 2024-03 and 2025-01 Income Statement-Reporting Comprehensive Income-Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses | The guidance will require additional disclosures about specific types of expenses included in the expense captions presented on the face of the income statement as well as disclosures about selling expenses. | The guidance is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2027. | We are in the process of evaluating the impact of this guidance on our disclosures. | ||||||||
ASU No. 2025-05 Financial Instruments-Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses for Accounts Receivable and Contract Assets | The guidance provides a practical expedient for the calculation of current expected credit losses on current accounts receivable and current contract assets that assumes that current conditions as of the balance sheet date do not change for the remaining life of the asset. | The guidance is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2025, and interim periods within those fiscal years. | We do not expect our adoption of this guidance will have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements and related disclosures. | ||||||||
ASU No. 2025-06 Intangibles-Goodwill and Other-Internal-Use Software (Subtopic 350-40): Targeted Improvements to the Accounting for Internal-Use Software | The guidance replaces the current framework that is based on software development project stages with updated criteria, focused on management’s authorization and the probability of project completion, to determine the timing for cost capitalization. | The guidance is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2027, and interim periods within those fiscal years. | We are in the process of evaluating the impact of this guidance on our consolidated financial statements and related disclosures. | ||||||||
ASU No. 2025-07 Derivatives and Hedging (Topic 815) and Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606): Derivatives Scope Refinements and Scope Clarification for Share-Based Noncash Consideration from a Customer in a Revenue Contract | The guidance refines the scope of Topic 815 by excluding from derivative accounting non-exchange trading contracts that have underlyings based on operations or activities specific to one of the parties to the contract with certain exceptions and clarifies the applicability of Topic 606 to share-based noncash consideration received from a customer in exchange for goods or services. | The guidance is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim periods within those fiscal years. | We are in the process of evaluating the impact of this guidance on our consolidated financial statements and related disclosures. | ||||||||
ASU No. 2025-09 Derivatives and Hedging (Topic 815): Hedge Accounting Improvements | The guidance includes expanding eligibility for cash flow hedges of groups of forecasted transactions, introducing a model for hedging forecasted interest payments on “choose-your-rate” debt instruments, permitting designation of variable price components in forecasted purchases or sales of nonfinancial assets and clarifying guidance for net investment hedges and dual hedge strategies. | The guidance is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim periods within those fiscal years. | We are in the process of evaluating the impact of this guidance on our consolidated financial statements and related disclosures. | ||||||||
ASU No. 2025-11 Interim Reporting (Topic 270): Narrow-Scope Improvements | The guidance clarifies interim disclosure requirements, provides a comprehensive list of disclosures required by GAAP and includes a disclosure principle for events since the last annual reporting period to enhance consistency in interim reporting. | The guidance is effective for interim reporting periods within annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027. | We are in the process of evaluating the impact of this guidance on our interim condensed consolidated financial statements and related disclosures. | ||||||||
ASU No. 2025-12 Codification Improvements | The guidance provides changes that clarify, correct errors or make minor improvements to GAAP. | The guidance is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim periods within those fiscal years. | We are in the process of evaluating the impact of this guidance on our consolidated financial statements and related disclosures. | ||||||||
Historical Timeline
| Fiscal Year | Filed | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Feb 25, 2026 | Showing above |
| 2024 | Feb 26, 2025 | |
| 2023 | Feb 27, 2024 | |
| 2022 | Feb 27, 2023 | |
| 2021 | Feb 25, 2022 | |
| 2020 | Feb 26, 2021 | |
| 2019 | Feb 25, 2020 | |
| 2018 | Feb 26, 2019 | |
| 2017 | Feb 27, 2018 | |
| 2016 | Feb 27, 2017 | |
| 2015 | Feb 25, 2016 | |
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.