New Accounting Standards

Adoption of New Accounting Standards

StandardDescription
Date of Adoption
Effects on the Financial Statements or Other Significant Matters
Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2023-09, “Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures”
Expands income tax disclosures, primarily by enhancing the rate reconciliation table and requiring additional disaggregated information about income taxes paid.

Adoption allows retrospective or prospective application, with early adoption permitted.

January 1, 2025 (applies to the annual financial statements for 2025 and interim periods thereafter)
The Company adopted this guidance on January 1, 2025 on a retrospective basis for all periods presented within these 2025 annual financial statements. The impact of adoption was the additional tax disclosures included in Note 22.

New Accounting Standards Not Yet Adopted

StandardDescriptionRequired Date of AdoptionEffects on the Financial Statements or Other Significant Matters
ASU 2024-03, “Income Statement - Reporting Comprehensive Income - Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses”
Requires additional disclosures about certain expenses including, but not limited to, employee compensation, depreciation, amortization of intangible assets, and selling expenses. Also requires annual disclosure of how selling expenses are defined.

Adoption allows retrospective or prospective application, with early adoption permitted.
January 1, 2027 (applies to the annual financial statements for 2027 and interim periods thereafter)
The Company is evaluating the impact of this guidance on its financial statement disclosures.
ASU 2025-06, “Intangibles - Goodwill and Other - Internal-Use Software (Subtopic 350-40): Targeted Improvements to the Accounting for Internal-Use Software”
Removes references to prescriptive and sequential software development stages. Requires an entity to begin capitalizing software costs when both of the following occur: 1) management has authorized and committed to funding the software project, and 2) it is probable that the project will be completed and the software will be used to perform the function intended.

Adoption allows retrospective, prospective, or modified transition application, with early adoption permitted.
January 1, 2028
The Company is evaluating the impact of this guidance on its financial statements.
ASU 2025-09, “Derivatives and Hedging (Topic 815) Hedge Accounting Improvements
Clarifies certain aspects of the guidance on hedge accounting and addresses several incremental hedge accounting issues arising from the global reference rate reform.

Adoption should be applied on a prospective basis for all hedging relationships and may be elected for hedging relationships that exist as of the date of adoption. Upon adoption, entities will be permitted to modify certain critical terms of certain hedging relationships without dedesignating the hedge.
January 1, 2027
The Company is evaluating the impact of this guidance on its financial statements.
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Historical Timeline

Fiscal YearFiled
2025Feb 25, 2026Showing above
2024Feb 26, 2025
2023Feb 23, 2024
2022Feb 24, 2023
2021Feb 24, 2022
2020Feb 24, 2021
2019Feb 26, 2020
2018Feb 22, 2019
2017Feb 22, 2018
2016Feb 23, 2017
2015Feb 24, 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.