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SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2025
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SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

NOTE 1 — SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Principles of Consolidation

The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc. and its wholly-owned and majority-owned subsidiaries for which it has a controlling interest (the “Company”) after elimination of all inter-company accounts, transactions and profits.

The accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“GAAP”) for interim financial information and with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, these unaudited consolidated financial statements do not include all of the information and notes required by GAAP for complete financial statements. However, in the opinion of management, these unaudited consolidated financial statements contain all the adjustments (consisting of normal recurring accruals) considered necessary to present fairly the financial position, results of operations and cash flows for the interim periods. Operating results for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for the year ending December 31, 2025.

The accompanying Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet at December 31, 2024 has been derived from the audited financial statements at that date, but does not include all of the information and notes required by GAAP for complete financial statements. For further information, refer to the consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024.

Certain reclassifications have been made to the prior period amounts to conform to the current period presentation, none of which are material.

New Accounting Pronouncements:

This section provides a description of new accounting pronouncements (“Accounting Standards Updates” or “ASUs”) issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) that are applicable to the Company.

The following ASU was adopted as of January 1, 2025:

Standard

Description

ASU No. 2023-09, Income Taxes (Topic 740), issued December 2023.

Requires disclosure of specific categories in rate reconciliation and additional information for reconciling items that meet a quantitative threshold, additional information about income taxes paid, and disclosure of disaggregated income tax information. The Company will adopt the required disclosures for the 2025 annual period.

The Company is currently evaluating the impact on its financial statements of the following ASUs:

Standard

Description

ASU No. 2025-06, Intangibles—Goodwill and Other—Internal-Use Software, issued September 2025

Updates requirements for capitalization of internal-use software costs. The amendments are effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2027 and interim periods within those annual reporting periods. Early adoption is permitted.

ASU No. 2024-03, Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income—Expense Disaggregation Disclosures, issued November 2024

Requires enhanced disclosures of specified information about certain costs and expenses. The amendments are effective for annual periods beginning January 1, 2027, and interim periods beginning January 1, 2028. Early adoption is permitted.

ASU No. 2023-06, Disclosure Improvements, issued October 2023

Requires amending certain disclosure and presentation requirements for a variety of topics within the ASC. The effective date for each amended topic in the ASC is either the date on which the SEC’s removal of the related disclosure requirement from Regulation S-X or S-K becomes effective, or June 30, 2027, if the SEC has not removed the requirements by that date. Early adoption is prohibited.