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Significant Accounting Policies (Policies)
3 Months Ended
Feb. 25, 2024
Accounting Policies [Abstract]  
Consolidated entities policy The unaudited consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its subsidiaries. All significant intercompany transactions have been eliminated.
Fiscal period
The Company’s fiscal year ends on the Sunday that is closest to November 30 of that year, although the fiscal years of certain foreign subsidiaries end on November 30. Each quarter of both fiscal years 2024 and 2023 consists of 13 weeks, with the exception of the fourth quarter of 2024, which will consist of 14 weeks. All references to years and quarters relate to fiscal years and quarters rather than calendar years and quarters.
Supplier Finance Program
Supplier Finance Program
The Company offers a supplier financing program which enables the Company’s suppliers, at their sole discretion, to sell their receivables (i.e., the Company’s payment obligations to suppliers) to a financial institution on a non-recourse basis in order to be paid earlier than current payment terms provide.
The Company’s obligations to its suppliers, including amounts due and scheduled payment dates, are not impacted by the supplier’s participation in these arrangements. The Company’s payment terms to the financial institutions, including the timing and amount of payments, are based on the original supplier invoices. Our current payment terms with a majority of our suppliers are typically 90 days. The Company has not pledged any assets and does not provide guarantees under the supplier finance program. As such, the outstanding payment obligations under the Company’s supplier finance program are included within Accounts Payable in the Consolidated Balance Sheets.
Use of Estimates
Use of Estimates
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the consolidated financial statements and the related notes to the consolidated financial statements. Estimates are based upon historical factors, current circumstances and the experience and judgment of the Company’s management. Management evaluates its estimates and assumptions on an ongoing basis and may employ outside experts to assist in its evaluations. Changes in such estimates, based on more accurate future information, or different assumptions or conditions, may affect amounts reported in future periods.
Long-Lived Assets and Cloud Computing Arrangements
Long-Lived Assets
The Company reviews its long-lived assets for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate the carrying amount of an asset may be impaired. Impairment losses are measured and recorded for the excess of carrying value over its fair value, estimated based on expected future cash flows and other quantitative and qualitative factors.
Shares Repurchases
Share Repurchases
During the three months ended February 25, 2024, the Company repurchased 1.5 million shares for $24.9 million, plus broker’s commissions, in the open market. This equates to an average repurchase price of approximately $17.15 per share. During the three months ended February 26, 2023, the Company repurchased 0.5 million shares for $8.1 million, plus broker's commissions, in the open market. This equates to an average repurchase price of approximately $17.97 per share.
The Company accounts for share repurchases by charging entirely to retained earnings the excess of the repurchase price over the repurchased Class A common stock’s par value. All repurchased shares are retired and become authorized but unissued shares. The Company accrues for the shares purchased under the share repurchase plan based on the trade date. The Company may terminate or limit the share repurchase program at any time.
Recently Issued Accounting Standards
Recently Issued Accounting Standards
In September 2022, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Accounting Standards Update No. 2022-04, Liabilities - Supplier Finance Programs (Subtopic 405-50): Disclosure of Supplier Finance Program Obligations. This new guidance is designed to enhance transparency around supplier finance programs by requiring new disclosures that would allow a user of the financial statements to understand the program’s nature, activity during the period, changes from period to period and potential magnitude. The guidance became effective for the Company in the first quarter of fiscal year 2024, with the exception of the rollforward information, which will be effective for annual periods beginning in fiscal year 2025 on a prospective basis. The Company adopted the guidance in the first quarter of 2024 and is evaluating the impact of adopting the guidance related to the rollforward information. See above for the Company’s disclosures relating to the Company’s supplier financing arrangements.
There have been no other developments to recently issued accounting standards, including the expected dates of adoption and estimated effects on the Company’s consolidated financial statements and footnote disclosures, from those disclosed in the 2023 Annual Report on Form 10-K.