LiveWire Group, Inc.

2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Principles of Consolidation – The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of LiveWire Group, Inc. and its subsidiaries, all of which are wholly-owned. All intercompany accounts and material intercompany transactions have been eliminated.

Foreign Currency -The Company’s international subsidiaries use their respective local currency as their functional currency. Assets and liabilities of international subsidiaries have been translated at period-end exchange rates, and revenues and expenses have been translated using average exchange rates for the period. Monetary assets and liabilities denominated in a currency that is different from an entity's functional currency are remeasured from the transactional currency to the entity's functional currency on a monthly basis. The aggregate transaction gains and losses resulting from foreign currency remeasurements was $321 thousand gain, $206 thousand loss, and $97 thousand loss for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, respectively.

Use of Estimates –The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires the Company’s management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the consolidated financial statements and the accompanying notes. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

Cash and Cash Equivalents – The Company considers all highly liquid investments with a maturity of 90 days or less when purchased to be cash equivalents.

Concentrations of Credit Risk– Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to concentrations of credit risk consist principally of cash and cash equivalents and accounts receivable. The Company limits its credit risk with respect to cash by maintaining cash and cash equivalents with high quality financial institutions. At times, the Company’s cash and cash equivalents may exceed federally insured limits. We perform periodic credit evaluations of our customers’ financial condition and generally do not require collateral. No single customer or customer group represented 10% or greater of net accounts receivable at December 31, 2025 and 2024.

Accounts Receivable, net– Accounts receivable primarily relate to sales of electric balance bikes and electric bikes to independent dealers and independent distributors, electric motorcycle sales to non-H-D dealers in the United States, and electric motorcycle sales in Europe, and are presented in Accounts receivable, net on the consolidated balance sheets. Payment terms from these customers range from 30 days to 364 days. The Company has elected the practical expedient available under ASC Topic 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (“ASC 606”) that allows entities to not adjust the promised amount of consideration for the effects of a significant financing component if the entity expects, at contract inception, that the period between when the entity transfers a promised good or service to a customer and when the customer pays for that good or service will be one year or less.

All sales of electric motorcycles and related products to independent H-D dealers in the U.S. and Canada are financed by the purchasing independent H-D dealers through Harley-Davidson Financial Services, Inc. (“HDFS”), a wholly owned subsidiary of H-D. Sales to online and retail customers may also be financed by HDFS. Amounts financed through HDFS, not yet remitted to the Company by HDFS, are generally settled within 30 days. Accounts receivable related to these sales are recorded in Accounts receivable from related party on the consolidated balance sheets.

The provision for expected credit losses deducted from total accounts receivable was $214 thousand and $302 thousand as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. The Company’s evaluation of the provision for expected credit losses includes a review to identify non-performing accounts which are evaluated individually. The remaining accounts receivable balances are evaluated in the aggregate based on an aging analysis. The provision for expected credit losses is based on factors including past loss experience, the value of collateral, and if applicable, reasonable and supportable economic forecasts. Accounts receivables are written down once management determines that the specific customer does not have the ability to repay the balance in full.

Inventories, net – Total inventories are valued at the lower of cost or net realizable value using the first-in, first-out (“FIFO”) method for electric motorcycles and related products and average costing method for electric balance bikes and electric bikes. The Company’s determination of net realizable value considers the impact of sales incentives and excess and obsolete inventory based upon an assessment of historical trends, current market conditions and forecasted product demand.

Property, Plant and Equipment, net – Property, plant and equipment is recorded at cost, net of accumulated depreciation and amortization. Depreciation is determined using the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the assets. The estimated useful lives of each class of property, plant and equipment generally consist of 7 years for leasehold improvements,5 to 10 years for machinery and equipment, and 3 to 7 years for tooling and software.

Goodwill – Goodwill represents the excess of acquisition cost over the fair value of the net assets purchased. Goodwill is tested for impairment, based on financial data related to the reporting unit to which it has been assigned, at least annually or whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying value may not be recoverable. If the carrying amount of the reporting unit exceeds its fair value, goodwill is considered impaired and an impairment loss is recognized for the amount by which the carrying amount exceeds the fair value, limited to the total goodwill allocated to the reporting unit. During 2025 and 2024, the Company tested its goodwill balances for impairment and no impairment charges were recorded to goodwill as a result of those impairment tests.

Intangible Assets– Intangible assets are comprised of trademarks, patents, distributor relationships, and non-compete agreements. Intangible assets are amortized over their useful lives in a manner that reflects the pattern in which the economic benefit of the intangible assets is consumed. Intangible assets are assessed for impairment when a triggering event occurs.

Cloud Computing Arrangements– The Company incurs costs to implement cloud computing arrangements that are hosted by a third party vendor. Implementation costs incurred during the application development stage are capitalized and amortized over the term of the hosting arrangement on a straight-line basis. The Company capitalized zero, $45 thousand, and $1,312 thousand of costs during the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024, and 2023, respectively, to implement cloud computing arrangements. Capitalized cloud computing arrangement costs are included within Other long-term assets on the consolidated balance sheets. Amortization expense totaled $1,005 thousand, $957 thousand, and $839 thousand for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024, and 2023, respectively, and is presented within Selling, administrative and engineering expense on the consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss.

Impairment of Long-Lived Assets – The Company periodically evaluates the carrying value of long-lived assets, which consist of property, plant and equipment, intangible assets, and cloud computing arrangements, to be held and used when events and circumstances indicate the carrying amount may not be recoverable. Such events and circumstances include significant decreases in the market price for similar assets, significant adverse changes to the extent and manner in which the asset is used, an adverse change in legal factors or business climate, an accumulation of costs that exceed the estimated cost to acquire or develop a similar asset, and continuing losses that exceed forecasted costs. When the carrying value of a long-lived asset is not recoverable based on the existence of one or more of the above indicators, recoverability is determined by comparing the carrying amount of the asset to net future undiscounted cash flows that the asset is expected to generate. An impairment charge would then be recognized equal to the amount by which the carrying amount exceeds the fair value of the asset. The Company also reviews the useful life of its long-lived assets when events and circumstances indicate that the actual useful life may be shorter than originally estimated. In the event the actual useful life is deemed to be shorter than the original useful life, depreciation or amortization is adjusted prospectively so that the remaining book value is depreciated or amortized over the revised useful life.

Research and Development Expenses – Expenditures for research activities relating to product development are charged against income as incurred. Research and development expenses were $23,894 thousand, $41,742 thousand and $54,070 thousand for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, respectively, and presented within Selling, administrative and engineering expense on the consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss.

Advertising Costs – The Company expenses the production cost of advertising the first time the advertising takes place within Selling, administrative and engineering expense on the consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss. Advertising costs relate to the Company’s efforts to promote its products and brands through the use of media and other means. During the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, the Company incurred $4,235 thousand, $5,226 thousand and $4,671 thousand in advertising costs, respectively.

Income Taxes – LiveWire’s income taxes as presented are calculated on a separate tax return basis. LiveWire’s U.S. operations have historically been and continue to be included in H-D’s U.S. federal and state tax returns. LiveWire’s non-U.S. entities file corporate income tax returns in their respective jurisdictions. LiveWire accounts for income taxes in accordance with Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 740, Income Taxes (“ASC740”). Deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the future tax consequences attributable to differences between financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases and operating loss and other loss carryforwards. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the years in which those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. LiveWire reviews its deferred income tax asset valuation allowances on a quarterly basis or whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that a review is required. In determining the requirement for a valuation allowance, the historical and projected financial results of the legal entity or combined group recording the net deferred income tax asset is considered, along with any positive or negative evidence including tax law changes. Since future financial results and tax law may differ from previous estimates, periodic adjustments to LiveWire’s valuation allowances may be necessary. LiveWire has generated operating losses in each of the years presented, however, any hypothetical net operating loss attributes generated (and related valuation allowances) utilized by H-D are not recorded on the balance sheet.

Warrant Liabilities - The Company does not use derivative instruments to hedge exposures to cash flow, market, or foreign currency risks. The Company evaluates all of its financial instruments, including issued share purchase warrants, to determine if such instruments are derivatives or contain features that qualify as embedded derivatives, pursuant to the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) ASC Topic 480, Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity (“ASC 480”) and ASC Topic 815, Derivatives and Hedging (“ASC 815”). The Company accounts for the Public Warrants and Private Placement Warrants, both further described in Note 10, Warrants Liabilities, in accordance with the guidance contained in ASC 815 under which the Public and Private Warrants (collectively, the “Warrants”) do not meet the criteria for equity treatment and must be recorded as liabilities. Accordingly, the Company classifies the Warrants as liabilities at their fair value and adjusts the Warrants to fair value at each reporting period. This liability is subject to re-measurement at each balance sheet date until exercised, and any change in fair value is recognized in the consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss.

New Accounting Standards

Accounting Standards Adopted in 2025

In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU No. 2023-09, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures, which is intended to enhance the transparency and decision usefulness of income tax disclosures. The main provisions of ASU 2023-09 require a public entity to disclose on an annual basis (i) specific prescribed categories in the rate reconciliation, (ii) additional information for reconciling items that meet a quantitative threshold, (iii) the amount of income taxes paid, net of refunds received, disaggregated by federal, state, and foreign taxes, (iv) the amount of income taxes paid, net of refunds received, disaggregated by individual jurisdictions in which income taxes paid is equal to greater than 5 percent of total income taxes paid, (v) income or loss from continuing operations before income tax expense or benefit disaggregated between domestic and foreign, and (vi) income tax expense or benefit from continuing operations disaggregated by federal, state, and foreign. ASU 2023-09 also removes certain disclosure requirements related to unrecognized tax benefits and cumulative unrecognized temporary differences. The new guidance is effective for the fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024. The Company adopted this guidance as of January 1, 2025, which resulted in additional disclosures in Note 5 Income Taxes related to the items described above. The guidance will be applied prospectively.

Accounting Standards Not Yet Adopted

In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU No. 2024-03, Income Statement - Reporting Comprehensive Income - Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40), which is intended to improve the disclosures about a public business entity's expenses and provide more detailed information about the types of expenses (including purchases of inventory, employee compensation, depreciation, amortization, and depletion) in commonly presented expense captions (such as cost of goods sold and selling, administrative and engineering expense). The main provisions of ASU 2024-03 require a public entity at each interim and annual reporting period to (i) disclose the amounts of purchases of inventory, employee compensation, depreciation, intangible asset amortization, and depletion included in each relevant expense caption presented on the face of the income statement within continuing operations, (ii) include certain amounts that are already required to be disclosed under current generally accepted accounting principles in the same disclosure as the other disaggregation requirements, (iii) disclose a qualitative description of the amounts remaining in relevant expense captions that are not separately disaggregated quantitatively, and (iv) disclose the total amount of selling expenses and, in annual reporting periods, an entity's definition of selling expenses. In January 2025, the FASB issued ASU No. 2025-01, Income Statement - Reporting Comprehensive Income - Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40) Clarifying the Effective Date, which is intended to clarify the effective date of ASU No. 2024-03. As clarified in ASU 2025-01, the new guidance is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim reporting periods within annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027. Early adoption is permitted. The Company is still evaluating the impact ASU 2024-03 will have on the Company's consolidated financial statement disclosures.

In July 2025, the FASB issued ASU No. 2025-05, Financial Instruments – Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses for Accounts Receivable and Contract Assets, which is intended to reduce complexity related to estimating expected credit losses for current accounts receivable and current contract asset balances accounted for under Topic 606. The main provisions of ASU 2025-05 provide (i) a practical expedient that allows all entities to assume that conditions as of the balance sheet date will not change for the remaining life of the asset when developing reasonable and supportable forecasts as part of estimating expected credit losses accounted for under Topic 606 and (ii) an accounting policy election available to entities other than public business entities which allows such entities that elect the practical expedient to consider collection activity after the balance sheet date when estimating expected credit losses for current accounts receivable and current contract assets arising from transactions accounted for under Topic 606. The new guidance is effective for the fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2025. Early adoption is permitted in both interim and annual reporting periods. If elected, the amendments in ASU 2025-05 should be applied prospectively. The adoption of ASU 2025-05 is not expected to have a material impact on 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 is intended to modernize the accounting for internal-use software costs. The main provisions of ASU 2025-06 remove all references to prescriptive and sequential software development stages and require capitalization of software costs when both (i) management has authorized and committed to funding the software project and (ii) it is probable the project will be completed and the software will be used to perform the function intended (the “probable-to-complete recognition threshold”). In evaluating the probable-to-complete recognition threshold, consideration is given to whether there is significant uncertainty associated with the development activities of the software (“significant development uncertainty”). Significant development uncertainty considers whether (i) the software being developed has technological innovations or novel, unique, or unproven functions or features, and the uncertainty related to those technological innovations, functions, or features, if identified, that have not been resolved through coding and testing and (ii) a determination has been made regarding what the software needs to do (for example, functions or features), including whether the software’s significant performance requirements have been identified or are being substantially revised. The new guidance is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027, including interim periods within those annual periods. Early adoption is permitted at the beginning of an annual reporting period. Entities may apply the guidance using one of three transition approaches: prospective, modified, or retrospective. The prospective approach applies the new guidance to software costs incurred from the adoption date forward. The modified approach also applies prospectively but requires derecognition of certain in-process project costs through a cumulative-effect adjustment to retained earnings. The retrospective approach involves restating prior periods and adjusting retained earnings at the beginning of the first period presented. The Company is still evaluating the impact ASU 2025-06 will have on its consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.

In December 2025, the FASB issued ASU 2025-11, Interim Reporting (Topic 270): Narrow-Scope Improvements, which is intended to improve the navigability of the required interim disclosures and clarify when the guidance is applicable. The amendments also provide additional guidance on what disclosures should be provided in interim reporting periods. The amendments add to Topic 270 a principle that requires entities to disclose events since the end of the last annual reporting period that have a material impact on the entity. The Board does not intend to change the fundamental nature of interim reporting or expand or reduce current interim disclosure requirements, which were determined by prior Boards when the disclosure requirements were initially issued. Rather, the objective of the amendments is to provide clarity on the current interim reporting requirements. The new guidance is effective for the fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2027. Early adoption is permitted in both interim and annual reporting periods. If elected, the amendments in ASU 2025-11 may be applied prospectively or retrospectively. The Company is still evaluating the impact ASU 2025-06 will have on its consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.