REPUBLIC SERVICES, INC.RSG
REPUBLIC SERVICES, INC. New Standards Disclosure
New Accounting Pronouncements
Accounting Standards Adopted
Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures
In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-09, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures (ASU 2023-09). ASU 2023-09 requires entities to provide additional information in the rate reconciliation and additional disclosures about income taxes paid. The amendments in this update are effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024. The Company adopted ASU 2023-09 on a retrospective basis in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. The adoption of this ASU did not have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements. The required additional information can be found in Note 11, Income Taxes, in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025.
Accounting Standards Updates Issued but not yet Adopted as of December 31, 2025
Accounting Standards Update Codification Improvements
In December 2025, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Accounting Standards Update 2025-12, Codification Improvements: The amendments from this ASU address a range of various accounting topics that represent changes that clarify and make minor improvements to the existing codification. The amendments are effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim reporting periods within those annual reporting periods. Early adoption is permitted. We are currently assessing the effect this guidance may have on our consolidated financial statements.
Narrow-Scope Improvements
In December 2025, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update 2025-11, Interim Reporting (Topic 270): Narrow-Scope Improvements: This guidance clarifies interim disclosure requirements and the applicability of Topic 270 resulting in a comprehensive list of interim disclosures required by GAAP and a disclosure principal for disclosing material events since the last reporting period. The amendments are effective for interim reporting periods within annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027.
Accounting for Government Grants Received by Business Entities
In December 2025, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update 2025-10, Government Grants (Topic 832): Accounting for Government Grants Received by Business Entities. This ASU adds guidance to ASC 832 on the recognition, measurement, and presentation of government grants. In the absence of such guidance, many for-profit entities historically have analogized to other GAAP, including IAS 20 or ASC 958-605, when accounting for government grants. This ASU will be effective for annual and interim periods in fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2028. We are currently assessing the effect this guidance may have on our consolidated financial statements.
Targeted Improvements to the Accounting for Internal-Use Software
In September 2025, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update 2025-06, Intangibles - Goodwill and Other - Internal-Use Software (Subtopic 350-40): Targeted Improvements to the Accounting for Internal-Use Software. This guidance removes references to prescriptive and sequential development stages, requiring companies to capitalize internal-use software costs when management commits to funding the software project and it is probable the project will be completed. The amendments are effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027 and interim reporting periods within those annual reporting periods. Entities may apply the guidance using a prospective, retrospective or modified transition approach. We are currently assessing the effect this guidance may have on our consolidated financial statements.
Measurement of Credit Losses for Accounts Receivable and Contract Assets
In July 2025, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update 2025-05, Financial Instruments - Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses for Accounts Receivable and Contract Assets (ASU 2025-05), which simplifies the application of the current expected credit loss model for current accounts receivable and current contract assets under Topic 606. In developing reasonable and supportable forecasts as part of estimating expected credit losses, the amendments in this update provide entities with a practical expedient that assumes that the current conditions as of the balance sheet date do not change for the remaining life of the asset. The update is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2025 and interim reporting periods within those annual reporting periods. We are currently assessing the effect this guidance may have on our consolidated financial statements.
Determining the Accounting Acquirer in the Acquisition of a Variable Interest Entity
In May 2025, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update 2025-03, Business Combinations (Topic 805) and Consolidation (Topic 810): Determining the Accounting Acquirer in the Acquisition of a Variable Interest Entity (ASU 2025-03), revising guidance on identifying the accounting acquirer in business combinations involving variable interest entities (VIEs). In accordance with ASU 2025-03, when a reporting entity exchanges equity interests in a business combination, it must evaluate specific factors to determine the accounting acquirer, irrespective of the legal acquiree's classification as a VIE. This may lead to the conclusion that a VIE involves a reverse acquisition, treating the legal acquirer as the acquiree for accounting purposes. This update improves comparability with combinations including voting interest entities (VOEs) and will be effective for fiscal years starting after December 15, 2026.
Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses
In November 2024, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update No. 2024-03, Income Statement – Reporting Comprehensive Income – Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses (ASU 2024-03). ASU 2024-03 requires an entity to disclose the amount of purchases of inventory, employee compensation, depreciation, and intangible asset amortization included in each relevant expense caption. It also requires an entity to include certain amounts that are already required to be disclosed under GAAP in the same disclosure. Additionally, it requires an entity to disclose a qualitative description of the amounts remaining in relevant expense captions that are not separately disaggregated quantitatively, and to disclose the total amount of selling expenses and, in annual reporting periods, an entity’s definition of selling expenses. The amendments in ASU 2024-03 are effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2026 and interim reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027, with early adoption permitted. An entity may apply the amendments prospectively for reporting periods after the effective date or retrospectively to any or all prior periods presented in the financial statements. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of ASU 2024-03 on its future consolidated financial statements.
Codification Amendments in Response to the SEC's Disclosure Update and Simplification Initiative
In October 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-06, Disclosure Improvements: Codification Amendments in Response to the SEC’s Disclosure Update and Simplification Initiative, to modify the disclosure or presentation requirements of a variety of topics, which will allow users to more easily compare entities subject to the SEC's existing disclosures with those entities that were not previously subject to the SEC's requirements, and to align the requirements in the FASB accounting standard codification with the SEC's regulations. The effective date for each topic's amendment is the date on which the SEC's removal of the topic's related disclosure from Regulation S-X or Regulation S-K becomes effective, with early adoption prohibited.
Historical Timeline
| Fiscal Year | Filed | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Feb 18, 2026 | Showing above |
| 2024 | Feb 14, 2025 | |
| 2023 | Feb 29, 2024 | |
| 2022 | Feb 23, 2023 | |
| 2021 | Feb 11, 2022 | |
| 2020 | Feb 23, 2021 | |
| 2019 | Feb 14, 2020 | |
| 2018 | Feb 8, 2019 | |
| 2017 | Feb 9, 2018 | |
| 2016 | Feb 17, 2017 | |
| 2015 | Feb 12, 2016 | |
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