ODYSSEY MARINE EXPLORATION INC New Standards Disclosure
Accounting Standards Recently Adopted
In December 2023, the FASB issued , “Income Taxes (Topic 740) – Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures”). The new guidance enhances the transparency and decision usefulness of income tax disclosures. Adjustments to the annual disclosure of income taxes include: (1) a tabular rate reconciliation comprised of eight specific categories, (2) incomes taxes paid, disaggregated between significant national, state, and foreign jurisdictions, (3) elimination of requirements to disclose the nature and estimate of reasonably possible changes to unrecognized tax benefits in the next 12 months or that an estimated range cannot be made, and (4) addition of a requirement to disclose income (or loss) from continuing operations before income tax expense (or benefit) by national and foreign, and income tax expense (or benefit) from continuing operations disaggregated between national, state and foreign. The ASU is effective for public business entities for fiscal years beginning on or after December 15, 2024, with early adoption permitted. The Company adopted this guidance in this Annual Report on Form 10-K on a prospective basis, which results in the requirement for some non-comparable disclosures between the periods presented. Except for the expanded disclosure, there was no material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements due to the adoption of this ASU. See Note 14 – Income Taxes for complete disclosures arising from this adoption.
Accounting Standards Not Yet Adopted
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.” The guidance in ASU 2024-03 requires public business entities to disclose in the notes to the financial statements, among other things, specific information about certain costs and expenses, including purchases of inventory, employee compensation, and depreciation, amortization, and depletion expenses for each caption on the income statement where such expenses are included. ASU 2024-03 is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027. Early adoption is permitted, and the amendments may be applied prospectively to reporting periods after the effective date or retrospectively to all periods presented in the financial statements. The Company is currently evaluating the provisions of this guidance and assessing the potential impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statement disclosures.
In July 2025, the FASB issued ASU 2025-05, Financial Instruments – Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses for Accounts Receivable and Contract Assets. The guidance in ASU 2025-05 provides all entities with a practical expedient to assume that current conditions as of the balance sheet date do not change for the remaining life of the assets. ASU 2025-05 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2025. Given the Company’s accounts receivable composition, the Company does not expect adoption of this guidance to have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.
In September 2025, the FASB issued ASU 2025-06, Targeted Improvements to the Accounting for Internal-Use Software, to modernize the accounting for and disclosure of internal-use software costs. The guidance removes all references to project stages, defines the threshold for capitalizing costs, and clarified the disclosure requirements for capitalized software costs. ASU 2025-06 is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2027, and interim periods within those fiscal years, and can be applied retrospectively, prospectively, or on a modified transition approach. Early adoption is permitted. The Company does not expect adoption of this guidance to have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.
In September 2025, the FASB issued ASU 2025-07, Derivatives and Hedging (Topic 815) and Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606)—Derivatives Scope Refinements and Scope Clarifications for Share-Based Noncash Consideration from a Customer in a Revenue Contract. The ASU is intended to address concerns about the application of derivative accounting to contracts with features linked to the operations or activities of one of the parties to the contract and to reduce diversity in the accounting for share-based payments in revenue contracts. This guidance specifically scopes out litigation funding from the definition of a derivative. ASU 2025-07 is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim periods within those annual
periods. Early adoption is permitted. The amendments may be applied prospectively or on the modified retrospective method. The Company is continuing to evaluate the potential impact of this update on its consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.
In December 2025, the FASB issued ASU No. 2025-11, Interim Reporting (Topic 270): Narrow-Scope Improvements. The standard clarifies the application of interim reporting guidance and reorganizes existing disclosures. This guidance is effective for interim reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027. The Company does not expect adoption of this guidance to have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.
In December 2025, the FASB issued ASU 2025-12 Codification Improvements. The ASU provides clarifying guidance intended to improve the consistency and application of existing accounting standards. This guidance is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim periods within those annual reporting periods, with early adoption permitted. The Company does not expect adoption of this guidance to have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.
Other recent accounting pronouncements issued by the FASB and the SEC did not or are not believed by management to have a material effect, if any, on the Company’s consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.
Historical Timeline
| Fiscal Year | Filed | |
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| 2025 | Mar 31, 2026 | Showing above |
| 2024 | Mar 31, 2025 | |
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.
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