Overview, Basis of Presentation and Significant Accounting Policies (Policies) |
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| Basis of Presentation | Basis of Presentation The accompanying Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements include the accounts of DFIN and all majority-owned subsidiaries and have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“GAAP”) for interim financial information and in accordance with the rules and regulations of the SEC. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required by GAAP for complete financial statements. The financial data presented herein should be read in conjunction with the audited Consolidated Financial Statements and accompanying notes included in the Company’s latest Annual Report. In the opinion of management, the financial data presented includes all adjustments necessary to present fairly the results of operations, financial position and cash flows for the interim periods presented. Results of interim periods should not be considered indicative of the results for the full year. |
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| Use of Estimates | Use of Estimates—The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires the extensive use of management’s estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities as well as disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities as of the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the reporting periods. Actual results could differ from these estimates. The Company’s significant accounting policies and critical accounting estimates are disclosed in the Annual Report. |
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| Allowance for Expected Losses | Allowances for Expected Losses—Transactions affecting the current expected credit loss (“CECL”) reserve during the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025 were as follows:
The components of the CECL reserve balance at March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025 were as follows:
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| Property, Plant and Equipment, net | Property, Plant and Equipment, net—The components of the Company’s property, plant and equipment, net at March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025 were as follows:
Depreciation expense was $1.2 million for both the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025. |
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| Software, net | Software, net—Capitalized software development costs are amortized over their estimated useful life using the straight-line method, up to a maximum of three years. Amortization expense related to internally-developed software was $13.8 million and $12.9 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively. |
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| Investments | Investments—The carrying value of the Company’s investments in equity securities was $6.3 million at both March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025. The Company measures its equity securities that do not have a readily determinable fair value at cost minus impairment, if any, plus or minus changes resulting from observable price changes in orderly transactions for the identical or a similar investment of the same issuer. The Company performs an assessment on a quarterly basis to determine whether triggering events for impairment exist and to identify any observable price changes. |
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| Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements | Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements In July 2025, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2025-05, “Financial Instruments—Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses for Accounts Receivable and Contract Assets,” which provides a practical expedient when developing reasonable and supportable forecasts as part of estimating expected credit losses that all entities may assume current conditions as of the balance sheet date do not change for the remaining life of the asset. The Company adopted the standard prospectively in the first quarter of 2026 and elected to utilize the practical expedient upon adoption. The adoption of the standard did not have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements. |
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| Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements | Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements In November 2024 and January 2025, the FASB issued ASU No. 2024-03, “Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income—Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses,” and ASU No. 2025-01, “Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income—Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Clarifying the Effective Date,” respectively, which require that an entity disclose disaggregated information about specific natural expense categories underlying certain statement of operations expense line items that are considered relevant in a tabular format within the notes to the consolidated financial statements, among other amendments that expand statement of operations expense disclosures. The standards are effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2027. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of the adoption of this standard on its disclosures to the consolidated financial statements. In September 2025, the FASB issued ASU No. 2025-06, “Intangibles—Goodwill and Other—Internal-Use Software (Subtopic 350-40): Targeted Improvements to the Accounting for Internal-Use Software,” which clarifies the threshold entities apply to begin capitalizing costs and removes references to software development project stages. The ASU requires that an entity capitalize software costs when management has authorized and committed to funding the software project and when it is probable that the project will be completed and the software will be used to perform the intended functions, including consideration of whether there is significant development uncertainty. The standard is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2027. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of the adoption of this standard on the consolidated financial statements. |
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| Revenue Recognition | Revenue Recognition The Company manages highly-customized data and materials to enable filings with the SEC on behalf of its customers as well as performs tagging of documents using Inline eXtensible Business Reporting Language (“iXBRL”) and other services. Clients are provided with EDGAR filing services, iXBRL compliance services and translation, editing, interpreting, proof-reading and multilingual typesetting services, among other services. The Company provides software solutions to public and private companies, mutual funds and other regulated investment firms to serve their regulatory and compliance needs, including ActiveDisclosure, Arc Suite and Venue, and provides digital document creation, online content management and print and distribution solutions. Revenue is recognized upon transfer of control of promised services or products to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the Company expects to be entitled in exchange for those services or products, which may include fixed consideration, variable consideration or a combination of the two. The Company’s services include software solutions and tech-enabled services whereas the Company’s products are comprised of print and distribution offerings. The Company’s arrangements with customers often include promises to transfer multiple services or products to a customer. Determining whether services and products are considered distinct performance obligations that should be accounted for separately requires significant judgment. Certain customer arrangements have multiple performance obligations as certain promises are both capable of being distinct and are distinct within the context of the contract. Other customer arrangements have a single performance obligation as the promise to transfer the individual goods or services is not separately identifiable from other promises in the contracts, and therefore is not distinct. Revenue for the Company’s software solutions, tech-enabled services and print and distribution offerings is recognized either over time or at a point in time, as further disclosed in the Annual Report. The timing of revenue recognition may differ from the timing of invoicing to customers and these timing differences result in contract assets, unbilled receivables or contract liabilities. Contract assets represent revenue recognized for performance obligations completed before an unconditional right to payment exists and therefore invoicing has not yet occurred. The Company generally estimates contract assets based on the historical selling price adjusted for its current experience and expected resolution of the variable consideration of the completed performance obligation. When the Company’s contracts contain variable consideration, the variable consideration is recognized only to the extent that it is probable that a significant revenue reversal will not occur in a future period. As a result, the estimated revenue and contract assets may be constrained until the uncertainty associated with the variable consideration is resolved, which generally occurs in less than one year. Determining whether there will be a significant revenue reversal in the future and the determination of the amount of the constraint requires significant judgment. Unbilled receivables are recorded when there is an unconditional right to payment and invoicing has not yet occurred. The Company estimates the value of unbilled receivables based on a combination of historical customer selling price and management’s assessment of realizable selling price. |
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| Lessee Leases Policy | The Company has operating leases for certain service centers, office space and equipment. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Restructuring | The Company records restructuring charges associated with management-approved restructuring plans, which could include the elimination of job functions, closure or relocation of facilities, reorganization of operations, changes in management structure, workforce reductions or other actions. Restructuring charges may include ongoing and enhanced termination benefits related to employee separations, contract termination costs and other related costs associated with exit or disposal activities. Restructuring charges for employee terminations include management’s estimate as to the timing and amount of severance and actual results could differ from estimates. |
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| Earnings per Share | Net earnings per basic share is calculated by dividing net earnings by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding for the period. Net earnings per diluted share is computed using the weighted-average number of common and potentially dilutive shares outstanding during the period, including stock options, restricted stock units (“RSUs”), performance share units (“PSUs”) and restricted stock, using the treasury stock method. |
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| Share-Based Compensation | The Company’s share-based compensation plan under which it may grant future awards, the Donnelley Financial Solutions, Inc. Amended and Restated 2016 Performance Incentive Plan (as amended, the “2016 PIP”), was approved by the Board of Directors (the “Board”) and the Company’s stockholders and provides incentives to key employees of the Company. Awards under the 2016 PIP may include cash or stock bonuses, stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock, PSUs, performance cash awards or RSUs. In addition, non-employee members of the Board may receive awards under the 2016 PIP. At March 31, 2026, there were 2.3 million remaining shares of common stock reserved for future issuance under the 2016 PIP. |
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