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WEALTHFRONT CORP New Standards Disclosure
Recent Accounting Pronouncements Adopted
In November 2023, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2023-07, Segment Reporting (Topic 280): Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosures. The amendments in guidance improve reportable segment disclosure requirements,
primarily through enhanced disclosures about significant segment expenses. This guidance is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2023, and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024. Early adoption is permitted. The Company adopted the pronouncement on February 1, 2024. The Company applied the amendments retrospectively to all prior periods presented in the consolidated financial statements.
In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU No. 2023-09, Income taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Taxes Disclosures. This guidance requires annual disclosure of specific categories in the rate reconciliation and provides additional information for reconciling items that meet a quantitative threshold. The guidance is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024. Early adoption is permitted. The Company adopted the disclosure requirements of ASU 2023-09 prospectively for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2026. See Note 14.— Income Taxes for more information.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements Not Yet Adopted
In October 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-06, Disclosure Improvements: Codification Amendments in Response to the SEC’s Disclosure Update and Simplification Initiative. The amendments are expected to impact various disclosure areas, including the statement of cash flows, accounting changes and error corrections, earnings per share, debt, derivatives, and transfer of financial assets. The amendments will become effective on the date the related disclosures are removed from Regulation S-X or Regulation S-K by the SEC, and will no longer be effective if the SEC has not removed the applicable disclosure requirement by June 30, 2027. Early adoption is prohibited. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of these amendments on the consolidated financial statements.
In March 2024, the SEC adopted final rules, The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors, Release Nos. 33-11275 and 34-99678. The rules require registrants to provide certain climate-related information in their registration statements and annual reports. These rules require disclosures about climate-related risks that are reasonably likely to have a material impact on the registrant’s business, strategy, results of operations, or financial condition, governance and risk management related to climate risks, and certain climate-related financial statement metrics and related disclosures in the audited financial statements. In April 2024, the SEC stayed the effectiveness of the final rules and in March 2025 the SEC voted to end its defense of the climate disclosure rules in federal court. The Company will continue to monitor the status of the final rules and evaluate the potential impact.
In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU No. 2024-03, Income Statement Expense Disaggregation Disclosures, which requires additional disclosures about certain amounts included in the expense captions presented on the statement of operations as well as disclosures about selling expenses. In January 2025, the FASB issued ASU No. 2025-01, which provides a delayed implementation timeline to give issuers additional time to prepare for the impacts of adopting ASU No. 2024-03. ASU No. 2024-03 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2027. Early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of this amendment on the consolidated financial statements.
In September 2025, the FASB issued ASU 2025-06, Intangibles - Goodwill and Other - Internal-Use Software (Subtopic 350-40): Accounting for Software Costs, which provides a single capitalization model for internal-use software development and cloud implementation costs and replaces the current phase-based guidance. ASU 2025-06 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2027, with early adoption permitted, and may be applied prospectively or modified retrospectively. The Company is currently assessing the impact of this new guidance on the consolidated financial statements.
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.