Basis of Presentation

9 Months Ended

Jan. 23, 2021

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]

Basis of Presentation

Basis of Presentation

The accompanying consolidated financial statements include the consolidated accounts of La-Z-Boy Incorporated and our majority-owned subsidiaries (collectively, the "Company"). We derived the April 25, 2020, balance sheet from our audited financial statements. We prepared the interim financial information in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles, which we applied on a basis consistent with those reflected in our fiscal 2020 Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), but the information does not include all of the disclosures required by generally accepted accounting principles. In management’s opinion, the interim financial information includes all adjustments and accruals, consisting only of normal recurring adjustments (except as otherwise disclosed), that are necessary for a fair statement of results for the respective interim periods. The interim results reflected in the accompanying financial statements are not necessarily indicative of the results of operations that will occur for the full fiscal year ending April 24, 2021.

At January 23, 2021, we owned preferred shares and warrants to purchase common shares of two privately held companies, both of which are variable interest entities. We have not consolidated their results in our financial statements because we do not have the power to direct those activities that most significantly impact their economic performance and, therefore, are not the primary beneficiary.

COVID-19

As part of our continued response to the impact of COVID-19, on June 4, 2020, we announced our business realignment plan, which included the reduction of the Company's global workforce by approximately 10% across our manufacturing, retail and corporate locations, including the closure of our Newton, Mississippi upholstery manufacturing facility. In the first nine months of fiscal 2021, we incurred expenses of $3.9 million associated with our business realignment plan, primarily due to severance costs and an impairment of the carrying value of the Newton manufacturing facility. Subsequent to the announcement of our business realignment plan in the first quarter of fiscal 2021, consumers have continued to allocate more discretionary spending to home furnishings and as a result, the demand for our products has outpaced our production capacity. In response, we have added manufacturing cells at our Mexico Cut-and-Sew Center, added weekend production shifts to our U.S plants, temporarily re-activated a portion of our Newton, Mississippi upholstery manufacturing facility, and have opened a leased upholstery plant, in San Luis Rio Colorado, Mexico.

During the fourth quarter of fiscal 2020, in response to economic conditions resulting from COVID-19, to strengthen our financial position and maintain liquidity, we proactively borrowed $75.0 million from our revolving credit facility. Given the positive trends in cash flows during the first six months of fiscal 2021, we repaid all of the $75.0 million borrowed under our line of credit in the first and second quarters of fiscal 2021.

On March 27, 2020, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”) was signed into law. The CARES Act, among other things, includes provisions providing for refundable payroll tax credits, deferment of employer social security payments, lengthening net operating loss carryback periods, alternative minimum tax credit refunds, modifications to the net interest deduction limitations and technical corrections to tax depreciation methods for qualified improvement property. In the third quarter of fiscal 2021, the Company determined amounts that it is eligible to claim for employee retention payroll tax credits and recognized $5.2 million in non-operating income for wages and healthcare costs paid to employees during suspension of operations due to government orders which qualify under the provisions of the CARES Act. The Company continues to evaluate the impact that the CARES Act may have on its results of operations, financial condition and/or financial statement disclosures.

We continue to actively manage the impact of the COVID-19 crisis and there is uncertainty regarding the impact COVID-19 will have on our financial operations in the near and long term.

Accounting pronouncements adopted in fiscal 2021

The following table summarizes Accounting Standards Updates ("ASUs") which were adopted in fiscal 2021, but did not have a material impact on our accounting policies or our consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.

ASU	Description
ASU 2016-13	Financial Instruments – Credit losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments
ASU 2020-04	Reference Rate Reform (Topic 848): Facilitation of the Effects of Reference Rate Reform on Financial Reporting

Accounting pronouncements not yet adopted

The following table summarizes accounting pronouncements which we have not yet adopted, but we believe will not have a material impact on our accounting policies or our consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.

ASU	Description	Adoption Date
ASU 2018-14	Compensation – Retirement benefits – Defined Benefit Plans – General (Subtopic 715-20): Changes to the Disclosure Requirements for Defined Benefit Plans	Fiscal 2022
ASU 2019-12	Income Taxes (Topic 740): Simplifying the Accounting for Income Taxes	Fiscal 2022
ASU 2020-01	Investments – Equity Securities (Topic 321), Investments – Equity Method and Joint Ventures (Topic 323), and Derivatives and Hedging (Topic 815): Clarifying the Interactions between Topic 321, Topic 323, and Topic 815	Fiscal 2022