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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies Update (Policies)

9 Months Ended

Oct. 31, 2025

The accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of AstroNova, Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiaries. All significant intercompany accounts and transactions are eliminated in consolidation.

Correction of Immaterial Error in Prior Period Financial Statements

During the third quarter of fiscal 2026, we identified an error related to the accounting for the MTEX acquisition. The error involved the recognition of Euro 1.8 million (approximately $2.1 million at October 31, 2025) in net book value of property, plant and equipment (“PP&E”) that was included in the opening balance sheet. In September 2025 we determined that these assets were either non-existent or obsolete at the acquisition date. Accordingly, the net book value of these assets was written off in the third quarter of fiscal 2026, with a corresponding increase to goodwill acquired in the acquisition. This error correction had no impact on net assets in the MTEX opening balance sheet. Refer to Note 3, “Acquisition” for further details on the correction to the opening balance sheet.

The net impact of this error correction on our consolidated statement of income (loss) in fiscal 2025 and 2026 is immaterial. In fiscal 2025, $0.2 million of depreciation expense related to the written-off assets was recorded and reversed in the third quarter of fiscal 2026. Following the write-off, the goodwill valuation model was updated, resulting in an additional goodwill impairment of $0.3 million for the period ended January 31, 2025. The combined impact of these adjustments is a net charge of $0.1 million which has been recorded in the third quarter of fiscal 2026.

We assessed the materiality of these errors, using both quantitative and qualitative factors, in accordance with the SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin (“SAB”) No. 99 “Materiality” and SAB 108 “Considering the Effects of Prior Year Misstatements when Quantifying Misstatements in Current Year Financial Statements” codified in ASC 250 “Accounting Changes and Error Corrections” and concluded these errors were immaterial to all of the previously issued consolidated financial statements. Under ASC 250, correcting prior‑year financial statements for such immaterial errors does not require previously filed reports to be amended. For comparative purposes, we have made a correction to the consolidated balance sheet and related footnotes for the prior period presented of Euro 1.8 million (approximately $1.8 million at January 31, 2025) in this Form 10-Q for the quarter ended October 31, 2025, as follows:

Balance Sheet:


	For the Year ended January 31, 2025
(In thousands)	As Previously Reported		Adjustments			As Revised
Property, Plant and Equipment	$	17,639	$	(1,846	)	$	15,793
Goodwill	$	14,515	$	1,846		$	16,361

Recent Accounting Pronouncements Not Yet Adopted

In November 2024, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2024-03, “Income Statement - Reporting Comprehensive Income - Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses.” ASU 2024-03 enhances expense disclosures on both an annual and interim basis by requiring public entities to disclose additional information about specific expense categories in the notes to the consolidated financial statements. This ASU requires disclosure in tabular format of purchases of inventory, employee compensation, depreciation, intangible asset amortization and depletion, as applicable, for each income statement line item that contains those expenses. Specific expenses, gains and losses that are already disclosed under existing US GAAP are also required to be included in the disaggregated income statement expense line-item disclosures, and any remaining amounts will need to be described quantitatively. Additionally, ASU 2024-03 requires disclosure of the total amount of selling expenses and the entity’s definition of selling expenses. ASU 2024-03 is effective for the first annual disclosure period beginning after December 15, 2026, and for the interim periods subsequent to that, with early adoption permitted. The amendment should be applied prospectively; however, retrospective application is permitted. We are currently evaluating the new disclosure requirements of ASU 2024-03 and do not expect the adoption of this guidance to have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements or disclosures.

In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-09, “Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures” to enhance the transparency and decision usefulness of income tax disclosures primarily related to the rate reconciliation and income taxes paid information. ASU 2023-09 modifies the requirement for income tax disclosures to include (1) specific categories in the rate reconciliation, (2) the income or loss from continuing operations before income tax expense or benefit (separated between domestic and foreign) and (3) income tax expense or benefit from continuing operations (separated by federal, state and foreign). ASU 2023-09 also requires entities to disclose their income tax payments to international, federal, state and local jurisdictions. The guidance is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2024. ASU 2023-09 should be applied on a prospective basis, but retrospective application is permitted. We are currently evaluating the potential impact and related disclosures required as a result of adopting this new guidance within our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended January 31, 2026, and subsequent annual reports.

No other new accounting pronouncements, issued or effective during the first nine months of the current year, have had or are expected to have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements.