Accounting Pronouncements Recently Adopted
In December 2023, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued ASU No. 2023-09, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures (ASU 2023-09), which improves the transparency of income tax disclosures by requiring consistent categories and greater disaggregation of information in the effective tax rate reconciliation and income taxes paid disaggregated by jurisdiction. It also includes certain other amendments to improve the effectiveness of income tax disclosures. This guidance was adopted during the year ended December 31, 2025. The guidance was applied retrospectively to all prior periods presented in the consolidated financial statements. The adoption of this new accounting pronouncement did not have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements, see Note 7, Income Taxes.
Accounting Pronouncements Not Yet Adopted
In November 2024, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued ASU No. 2024-03, Income Statement Reporting Comprehensive Income - Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40), which improves the disclosures about a public business entity's expenses and requires detailed information about the types of expenses in commonly presented expense financial statement captions. This guidance will be effective for the annual periods beginning with the year ending December 31, 2027 and interim periods during the year ending December 31, 2028. Early adoption is permitted. Upon adoption, the guidance can be applied prospectively or retrospectively. We are evaluating the effect that this guidance will have on our consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.
In September 2025, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued ASU No. 2025-06, Intangibles-Goodwill and Other-Internal-Use Software (Subtopic 350-40): Targeted Improvements to the Accounting for Internal-Use Software, which amends certain aspects of the accounting for and disclosure of software costs. This guidance will be effective for the annual periods beginning with the year ending December 31, 2028 and interim periods during the year ending December 31, 2028. Early adoption is permitted. Upon adoption, the guidance can be applied prospectively or retrospectively. We are evaluating the effect that this guidance will have on our condensed consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.
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.