SMITHFIELD FOODS INCSFD
SMITHFIELD FOODS INC New Standards Disclosure
Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements
New Accounting Pronouncements Recently Adopted
In December 2023, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2023-09 Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures. The standard requires enhanced rate reconciliation disclosures, including disclosure of specific categories and additional information for reconciling items that meet a quantitative threshold. The standard also requires companies to disaggregate income taxes paid by federal, state and foreign jurisdictions. The update was adopted and applied in this Annual Report on Form 10-K on a prospective basis. The standard does not impact our financial position, results of operations or cash flows.
New Accounting Pronouncements 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 new guidance is intended to provide investors with more disaggregated information about certain line items presented in the consolidated statement of income. The update is effective for our annual report on Form 10-K for fiscal year 2027, with early adoption permitted. The new disclosures are required to be applied prospectively with an option for retrospective application. The standard will not impact our financial position, results of operations or cash flows.
In May 2025, the FASB issued ASU 2025-03 Business Combinations (Topic 805) and Consolidation (Topic 810): Determining the Accounting Acquirer in the Acquisition of a Variable Interest Entity, which aims to improve consistency in identifying the accounting acquirer in business combinations involving VIEs. The update is effective for our annual report on Form 10-K for fiscal year 2027, with early adoption permitted. Once adopted, this update will be applied prospectively to transactions within the scope of the guidance.
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, which simplifies the estimation of credit losses on current accounts receivable and contract assets arising from transactions accounted for under ASC 606. The update is effective for fiscal year 2026, including interim periods within that fiscal year, with early adoption permitted. Once adopted, this update will be applied prospectively to assets within the scope of the guidance. We do not expect the adoption of this standard to have a material impact on our financial position, results of operations or cash flows.
In September 2025, the FASB issued ASU 2025-06 Intangibles—Goodwill and Other—Internal-Use Software (Subtopic 350-40), which streamlines the capitalization guidance for internal-use software and supersedes prior guidance on website development costs. The update is effective for fiscal year 2028, including interim periods within that fiscal year, with early adoption permitted. Once adopted, this update will be applied prospectively to software development projects initiated after adoption.
In September 2025, the FASB issued ASU 2025-07 Derivatives and Hedging (Topic 815) and Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606), which clarifies the scope of derivative accounting and provides guidance on share-based noncash consideration in revenue contracts. The update is effective for fiscal year 2027, including interim periods within that fiscal year, with early adoption permitted. Once adopted, this update will be applied prospectively to contracts within the scope of the guidance. We do not expect the adoption of this standard to have a material impact on our financial position, results of operations or cash flows.
In November 2025, the FASB issued ASU 2025‑09 Hedge Accounting Improvements, which enhances guidance related to hedge accounting, including provisions for component hedging. The update is effective for fiscal year 2027, including interim periods within that fiscal year, with early adoption permitted. Upon adoption, the update will be applied prospectively to open hedging relationships and to new hedges within the scope of the guidance. We do not expect the adoption of this standard to have a material impact on our financial position, results of operations or cash flows.
In December 2025, the FASB issued ASU 2025‑10 Accounting for Government Grants, which provides authoritative guidance on the recognition, measurement, and disclosure of government grants. The update is
effective for fiscal year 2029, including interim periods within that fiscal year, with early adoption permitted. We do not expect the adoption of this standard to have a material impact on our financial position, results of operations, or cash flows.
In December 2025, the FASB issued ASU 2025‑11 Interim Reporting (Topic 270): Narrow-Scope Improvements, which clarifies interim reporting requirements and enhances consistency in disclosures. The update is effective for fiscal year 2028, including interim periods within that fiscal year, with early adoption permitted. We do not expect the adoption of this standard to have a material impact on our financial position, results of operations, or cash flows, as the amendments primarily clarify existing guidance.
In December 2025, the FASB issued ASU 2025‑12, Codification Improvements, which makes 33 incremental improvements to GAAP across a broad range of topics intended to address technical corrections, unintended application of the accounting standards codification, clarifications and other minor improvements. This update is effective for fiscal year 2027, including interim periods within that fiscal year, with early adoption permitted. We do not expect the adoption of this update to have a material impact on our financial position, results of operations, or cash flows.
Historical Timeline
| Fiscal Year | Filed | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Mar 24, 2026 | Showing above |
| 2024 | Mar 25, 2025 | |
| 2016 | Mar 29, 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.