Basis of Presentation

9 Months Ended

Jan. 28, 2017

Basis of Presentation

Basis of Presentation

Note 1: Basis of Presentation

The accompanying consolidated financial statements include the consolidated accounts of La-Z-Boy Incorporated and our majority-owned subsidiaries. We derived the April 30, 2016 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 2016 Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, 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 29, 2017. Fiscal 2017 is a 52-week year as compared with fiscal 2016, which had 53 weeks, with the additional week occurring in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2016.

During the first nine months of both fiscal 2017 and fiscal 2016, we recorded a benefit related to legal settlements as part of cost of sales. The legal settlements increased gross margin 0.2 percentage point and 0.3 percentage point in the first nine months of fiscal 2017 and fiscal 2016, respectively. Gross margin was not impacted by legal settlements in either the third quarter of fiscal 2017 or the third quarter of fiscal 2016.