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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Policies)
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2025
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies [Abstract]  
Concentration of credit risk

Concentration of credit risk

Financial instruments which potentially subject the Company to concentrations of credit risk consist primarily of Cash and cash equivalents and Accounts receivable. The Company places its Cash and cash equivalents with financial institutions of high credit quality. At times, such amounts exceed federally insured limits. Management believes that no significant concentration of credit risk exists with respect to these cash balances because of its assessment of the creditworthiness and financial viability of the respective financial institutions.

The Company provides credit to its customers located both inside and outside the United States in its normal course of business. Receivables are presented net of an allowance for credit losses based on the Company’s assessment of the collectability of customer accounts. The Company maintains an allowance that provides for an adequate reserve to cover estimated losses on receivables as well as contract assets. The Company determines the adequacy of the allowance by estimating the probability of loss based on the Company’s historical credit loss experience and taking into consideration current market conditions and supportable forecasts that affect the collectability of the reported amount. The Company regularly evaluates receivable and contract asset balances considering factors such as the customer’s creditworthiness, historical payment experience and the age of the outstanding balance. Changes to expected credit losses during the period are included in Credit loss expense in the Company’s unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations

and comprehensive income. After concluding that a reserved accounts receivable is no longer collectible, the Company reduces both the gross receivable and the allowance for credit losses.

The Falcon’s Creative Group segment had two customers with revenue greater than 10% of its total revenue. FCG had revenue from Qiddiya Investment Company ("QIC") of $7.7 million and $13.6 million for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, respectively. The second customer had revenue of $4.5 million and $4.7 million for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, respectively.

 

The Company had two customers with revenue greater than 10% of total revenue. FBG had revenue from FCG of $1.6 million (64% of total revenue) and $1.7 million (94% of total revenue) for the three months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively. FCG had revenue of $3.2 million (76% of total revenue) and $3.2 million (97% of total revenue) for the six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively. Accounts receivable balances from FCG totaled $0.5 million (38% of total Accounts receivable) and $1.4 million (83% of total Accounts receivable) as of June 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively.

 

The second customer had revenue of $0.5 million (20% of total revenue) and $0.5 million (12% of total revenue) for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025. Accounts receivable balances from the second customer totaled $0.4 million (32% of total Accounts receivable) and $0 as of June 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively.

Leases

Leases

The Company evaluates leases at the commencement of the lease to determine the classification as an operating or finance lease. A right-of-use (“ROU”) asset and corresponding lease liability are recorded at lease commencement. Operating lease liabilities are recognized based on the present value of minimum lease payments over the remaining expected lease term. Lease expenses related to operating leases are recognized on a straight-line basis as a component of Selling, general and administrative expense in the consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive income.
Recoverability of other long-lived assets

Recoverability of other long-lived assets

The Company’s other long-lived assets consist primarily of property and equipment and lease ROU assets located in the United States of America. The Company evaluates long-lived assets for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate the carrying value of such assets may not be recoverable. For property and equipment and lease ROU assets, the Company compares the estimated undiscounted cash flows generated by the asset or asset group to the current carrying value of the asset. If the undiscounted cash flows are less than the carrying value of the asset, then the asset is written down to fair value.

Revenue recognition

Revenue recognition

Attraction maintenance services

 

The Company's Falcon Beyond Brands segment provides attraction maintenance services to its customers on a time and material basis. The Company recognizes revenue related to these services using the right to invoice practical expedient.

Transaction (credit) expenses

Transaction (credit) expenses

The Company recognized a credit of $3.5 million for the six months ended June 30, 2025 as a result of a reduction in accrued transaction expenses due to a negotiated settlement with the service provider. The Company also recognized $1.7 million in transaction expenses for the six months ended June 30, 2025 related to a proposed underwritten offering of the Company's Class A common stock during the first quarter in 2025 that was not completed.

Business Combinations

Business Combinations

The Company utilizes the acquisition method of accounting under ASC 805, Business Combinations ("ASC 805"), for all transactions and events in which it obtains control over one or more other businesses (even if less than 100% ownership is acquired), to recognize the fair value of all assets and liabilities assumed and to establish the acquisition date fair value as of the measurement date.

While the Company uses its best estimates and assumptions as part of the purchase price allocation process to accurately value assets acquired and liabilities assumed as of the acquisition date, the estimates and assumptions are inherently uncertain and subject to refinement. As a result, during the measurement period, which may be up to one year from the acquisition date, the Company records adjustments to the assets acquired and liabilities assumed, with the corresponding offset to goodwill or bargain purchase to the extent we identify adjustments to the preliminary fair values. For changes in the valuation of intangible assets between the preliminary and final purchase price allocation, the related amortization is adjusted in the period it occurs. Subsequent to the measurement period, any adjustment to assets acquired or liabilities assumed is included in operating results in the period in which the adjustment is determined.

Transaction expenses that are incurred in connection with a business combination, other than costs associated with the issuance of debt or equity securities, are expensed as incurred.

Contingent consideration is classified as a liability or as equity on the basis of the definitions of a financial liability and an equity instrument; contingent consideration payable in cash is classified as a liability. The Company recognizes the fair value of any contingent consideration that is transferred to the seller in a business combination on the date at which control of the acquiree is obtained. Contingent consideration payments related to acquisitions are measured at fair value each reporting period using Level 3 unobservable inputs (as defined in the Fair value measurement policy included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on April 3, 2025). When reported, any changes in the fair value of these contingent consideration payments are included in contingent earnout expense on the consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive income.

Reclassifications

Reclassifications

Certain prior year amounts in these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been reclassified to conform to the presentation for the three and six months ended June 30, 2024 and as of the year ended December 31, 2024.

Recently issued accounting standards

Recently issued accounting standards

On November 27, 2023, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2023-07, “Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosures.” This ASU requires additional reportable segment disclosures, primarily through enhanced disclosures about significant segment expenses. In addition, the ASU enhances interim disclosure requirements effectively making the current annual requirements a requirement for interim reporting. This ASU is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2023, and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024. The Company adopted this ASU as of December 31, 2024, the previously reported segment disclosures have been recast to reflect the new presentation under ASU 2023-07 guidance.

In March 2024, the FASB issued ASU 2024-02, “Codification Improvements-Amendments to Remove References to the Concepts Statements”. The amendments in this Update affect a variety of Topics in the Codification. The amendments apply to all reporting entities within the scope of the affected accounting guidance. This update contains amendments to the Codification that remove references to various Concepts Statements. In most instances, the references are extraneous and not required to understand or apply the guidance. In other instances, the references were used in prior statements to provide guidance in certain topical areas. This ASU is effective for public business entities for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024. The Company adopted this ASU as of March 31, 2025 and had no material impact to the condensed consolidated financial statements.

Recently issued accounting standards not yet adopted as of June 30, 2025

On December 14, 2023, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update 2023-09, "Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures (ASU 2023-09)," which is primarily applicable to public companies and requires a significant expansion of the granularity of the income tax rate reconciliation as well as an expansion of other income tax disclosures. ASU 2023-09 requires a company to disclose specific income tax categories within the rate reconciliation table and provide additional information for reconciling items that meet a quantitative threshold (if the effect of those reconciling items is equal to or greater than 5 percent of the amount computed by multiplying pretax income (or loss) by the applicable statutory income tax rate. There are also additional disclosures related to income taxes paid disaggregated by jurisdictions, and to income taxes paid. The ASU is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2024 and for interim periods in fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2025. The guidance will be applied on a prospective basis with the option to apply the standard retrospectively. Early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of adopting this standard on its income tax disclosures.

In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU No. 2024-03, "Income Statement-Reporting Comprehensive Income-Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40)". The amendments in this Update require a public business entity to provide disaggregated disclosures, in the notes to the financial statements, of certain categories of expenses that are included in expense line items on the face of the income statement. Relevant expense categories include, but are not limited to, employee compensation, selling expenses, intangible asset amortization, depreciation, and purchases of inventory. The guidance is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2027, is applied prospectively and may be applied retrospectively. The Company is evaluating the impact of ASU 2024-03.