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Note 2 - Interim Financial Presentation
6 Months Ended
May 30, 2020
Notes to Financial Statements  
Condensed Financial Statements [Text Block]

2. Interim Financial Presentation

 

All intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in the condensed consolidated financial statements. The results of operations for the three and six months ended May 30, 2020 are not necessarily indicative of results for the full fiscal year. These interim condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended November 30, 2019.

 

Income Taxes

 

We calculate an anticipated effective tax rate for the year based on our annual estimates of pretax income and use that effective tax rate to record our year-to-date income tax provision.  Any change in annual projections of pretax income could have a significant impact on our effective tax rate for the respective quarter.

 

On March 27, 2020 the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (the “CARES Act”) was signed into law. A major provision of the CARES Act allows net operating losses from the 2018, 2019 and 2020 tax years to be carried back up to five years. As a result, our effective tax rates for the three and six months ended May 30, 2020 were (36.4%) and (36.5%), respectively, which differ from the federal statutory rate of 21% primarily due to the effects of carrying back our current net operating loss to tax years in which the federal statutory rate was 35%, and to the effects of state income taxes and various permanent differences. Our effective tax rates for the three and six months ended June 1, 2019 were 20.0% and 23.8%, respectively, and differ from the federal statutory rate of 21% primarily due to the effects of state income taxes and various permanent differences, including the recognition of non-taxable proceeds from Company-owned life insurance.