Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

9 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2023

Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

A. Principles of Consolidation

The accompanying unaudited consolidated condensed financial statements include the accounts of SIFCO Industries, Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiaries (collectively, the "Company"). All significant intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.

The U.S. dollar is the functional currency for all of the Company’s operations in the United States ("U.S.") and its non-operating subsidiaries. For these operations, all gains and losses from completed currency transactions are included in income (loss). The functional currency for the Company's non-U.S. subsidiaries is the Euro. Assets and liabilities are translated into U.S. dollars at the rates of exchange at the end of the period, and revenues and expenses are translated using average rates of exchange for the period which approximate the rates in effect at the date of the transaction. Foreign currency translation adjustments are reported as a component of accumulated other comprehensive loss in the unaudited consolidated condensed financial statements.

These unaudited consolidated condensed financial statements should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and related notes included in the Company’s fiscal 2022 Annual Report on Form 10-K. The year-end consolidated condensed balance sheet contained in these financial statements was derived from the audited financial statements and disclosures required by accounting principles generally accepted in the U.S. The results of operations for any interim period are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for other interim periods or the full year.

B. Accounting Policies

A summary of the Company’s significant accounting policies is included in Note 1 to the audited consolidated financial statements of the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended September 30, 2022.

C. Net Loss per Share

The Company’s net loss per basic share has been computed based on the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding. During a period of net loss, zero restricted and performance shares are included in the calculation of diluted earnings per share because the effect would be anti-dilutive. In a period of net income, the net income per diluted share reflects the effect of the Company's outstanding restricted shares and performance shares under the treasury stock method. The dilutive effect is as follows:


	Three Months Ended June 30,				Nine Months Ended June 30,
	2023		2022		2023		2022


Net loss	$	(634)	$	(2,668)	$	(5,590)	$	(2,720)

Weighted-average common shares outstanding (basic and diluted)	5,940		5,840		5,925		5,827
Effect of dilutive securities:

Restricted shares	—		—		—		—
Performance shares	—		—		—		—
Weighted-average common shares outstanding (diluted)	5,940		5,840		5,925		5,827


Net loss per share – basic:	$	(0.11)	$	(0.46)	$	(0.94)	$	(0.47)







Net loss per share – diluted:	$	(0.11)	$	(0.46)	$	(0.94)	$	(0.47)

Anti-dilutive weighted-average common shares excluded from calculation of diluted earnings per share	211		313		187		309

D. Going Concern

As required by Accounting Standard Codification ("ASC") ASC Topic 205-40, Presentation of Financial Statements - Going Concern, management assesses the Company's ability to continue as a going concern for one year from the financial statement issuance at each annual and interim reporting period.

The accompanying consolidated condensed financial statements have been prepared assuming the Company will continue as a going concern. The Company has debt maturing in December 2023 and an alternate financing arrangement has yet to be executed. This condition raises substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.

The Company is evaluating available financial alternatives, including obtaining acceptable alternative financing. The Company cannot provide assurances that it will be able to provide the remaining post closing deliverable as established under the Seventh Amendment of the Credit Agreement discussed in Note 7, Debt and Subsequent Event or be successful in restructuring of existing debt obligations, obtaining capital or entering into a strategic alternative transaction which provides sufficient funding for the refinancing of its outstanding indebtedness prior to the maturity date of its obligations under the Credit Agreements. The consolidated condensed financial statements do not include any adjustments to the carrying amount and classification of assets, liabilities, and reported expense that may be necessary if the Company was unable to continue as a going concern. See Note 7, Debt and Subsequent Event and Note 13, Subsequent Events.

E. Recent Accounting Standards Not Yet Adopted

In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-13, "Financial Instruments - Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments" and subsequent updates. ASU 2016-13 changes how entities will measure credit losses for most financial assets and certain other instruments that are not measured at fair value through net income. The new guidance will replace the current incurred loss approach with an expected loss model. The new expected credit loss impairment model will apply to most financial assets measured at amortized cost and certain other instruments, including trade and other receivables, loans, held-to-maturity debt instruments, net investments in leases, loan commitments and standby letters of credit. Upon initial recognition of the exposure, the expected credit loss model requires entities to estimate the credit losses expected over the life of an exposure (or pool of exposures). The estimate of expected credit losses should consider historical information, current information and reasonable and supportable forecasts, including estimates of prepayments. Financial instruments with similar risk characteristics should be grouped together when estimating expected credit losses. ASU 2016-13 does not prescribe a specific method to make the estimate, so its application will require significant judgment. ASU 2016-13 is effective for public companies in fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019, including interim periods within those fiscal years. However, in November 2019, the FASB issued ASU 2019-10, "Financial Instruments - Credit Loss (Topic 326), Derivatives and Hedging (Topic 815), and Leases (Topic 842)," which defers the effective date for public filers that qualify as a smaller reporting company ("SRC"), as defined by the Securities and Exchange Commission, to fiscal years after December 15, 2022, including interim periods within those fiscal years. Because SIFCO is considered a SRC, the Company is not required to implement until October 1, 2023. The Company will continue to evaluate the effect of adopting ASU 2016-13 will have on the Company's results within the consolidated statements of operations and financial condition.

F. Employee Retention Credit

Under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (the "CARES Act"), the Employee Retention Credit ("ERC") is a refundable payroll tax credit for businesses and tax-exempt organizations that were affected during the COVID-19 pandemic. Eligible businesses, both for-profit and not-for-profit, that experienced a full or partial government-ordered suspension of operations or a "significant" decline in gross receipts in any quarter (more than 50% decrease in 2020 from 2019, and more than 20% in 2021) could receive a quarterly refundable payroll tax credit. The Company, with reasonably assured qualification, submitted and received approval for refunds under the ERC program.

As no authoritative guidance exists under U.S. GAAP for reporting ERCs, the Company adopted International Accounting Standards (“IAS”) 20 – Accounting for Government Grants and Disclosure of Government Assistance which permits the recording and presentation of either the gross amount as other income or netting the credit against related expense. The Company recorded a gross benefit of $1,772, which represented $1,688 claimed as refund and $84 in interest income. The ERC was recognized as a reduction in other manufacturing and selling, general and administrative expenses and allocated to the financial statement categories from which the payroll taxes were originally incurred. The Company recorded benefits to cost of goods sold of $1,452, selling, general and administrative expense of $236 and interest income $84, respectively and recorded selling, general and administrative expense of $354 for professional fees related to the tax credit in the consolidated condensed statements of operations during the three and nine months ended June 30, 2023. The Company received $1,246 of refunds on May 9, 2023 and recorded $526 in accounts receivable on the consolidated condensed balance sheets as of June 30, 2023.

G. Reclassification

Certain amounts in prior years have been reclassified to conform to the fiscal 2023 consolidated condensed statement presentation. In fiscal 2023, the Company revised its classification within the consolidated condensed statement of cash flows by moving a prior year amount of $332 of inventories from changes in operating assets and liabilities to inventory valuation accounts adjustment to reconcile net loss to net cash used for operating activities to conform to current period presentation.