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BUSINESS OVERVIEW AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
 3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2024
Accounting Policies [Abstract]  
BUSINESS OVERVIEW AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES BUSINESS OVERVIEW AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
Nature of Operations
Founded in 1997, BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. (the Company or BioMarin) is a global biotechnology company dedicated to transforming lives through genetic discovery. The Company develops and commercializes targeted therapies that address the root cause of genetic conditions. The Company's robust research and development (R&D) capabilities have resulted in multiple innovative commercial therapies for patients with rare genetic disorders. The Company's distinctive approach to drug discovery has produced a diverse pipeline of commercial, clinical, and pre-clinical candidates that address a significant unmet medical need, have well-understood biology, and provide an opportunity to be first-to-market or offer a substantial benefit over existing treatment options.
Basis of Presentation
These Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements have been prepared pursuant to U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (U.S. GAAP) and the rules and regulations of the SEC for Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and do not include all of the information and note disclosures required by U.S. GAAP for complete financial statements, although management believes that the disclosures herein are adequate to ensure that the information presented is not misleading. The Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements should therefore be read in conjunction with the Consolidated Financial Statements and Notes thereto for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023 included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K. The Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements include the accounts of the Company and its wholly owned subsidiaries. All intercompany transactions have been eliminated. The results of operations for the three months ended March 31, 2024 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2024 or any other period.
Change in Presentation
Effective during the three months ended March 31, 2024, the Company changed its presentation for foreign currency transaction gains and losses resulting from remeasurement and idle plant costs within its Condensed Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income. Effective with this change in presentation, foreign currency transaction gains and losses resulting from remeasurement are presented in Other Income (Expense), Net and idle plant costs are presented in Cost of Sales. Prior to this change in presentation, both foreign currency transaction gains and losses resulting from remeasurement and idle plant costs were presented in Selling, General and Administrative (SG&A) expense. The Company believes that this change in presentation is preferable because the revised presentation is more consistent with how management measures the Company’s operating performance.
Prior period amounts were revised to conform to current period presentation. The impact of the change in presentation resulted in an increase of $8.9 million to Cost of Sales, a decrease of $12.0 million to SG&A, a decrease of $3.1 million to Total Operating Expenses, and an increase of $3.1 million to Other Income (Expense), Net for the three months ended March 31, 2023. The change in presentation had no impact to Net Income, Total Stockholders’ Equity or earnings per share for the three months ended March 31, 2023.
Use of Estimates
U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect amounts reported in the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements and accompanying disclosures. Although these estimates are based on management’s best knowledge of current events and actions that the Company may undertake in the future, actual results may be different from those estimates. The Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements reflect all adjustments of a normal, recurring nature that are, in the opinion of management, necessary for a fair presentation of results for these interim periods.
Management performed an evaluation of the Company’s activities through the date of filing of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and has concluded that there were no subsequent events or transactions that occurred subsequent to the balance sheet date prior to filing this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q that would require recognition or disclosure in the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.
Significant Accounting Policies
There have been no material changes to the Company’s significant accounting policies during the three months ended March 31, 2024, as compared to the significant accounting policies disclosed in Note 1 – Business Overview and Significant Accounting Policies to the Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
There have been no new accounting pronouncements adopted by the Company or new accounting pronouncements issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) during the three months ended March 31, 2024, as compared to the recent accounting pronouncements described in Note 1 to the Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023, that the Company believes are of significance or potential significance to the Company. The following paragraphs discuss new accounting pronouncements issued by the FASB, but not yet adopted by the Company.
In November 2023, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2023-07, Segment Reporting Topic 280, Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosures, to improve reportable segment disclosure requirements through enhanced disclosures about significant segment expenses. ASU 2023-07 expands public entities’ segment disclosures by requiring disclosure of significant segment expenses that are regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker and included within each reported measure of segment profit or loss, an amount and description of its composition for other segment items and interim disclosures of a reportable segment’s profit or loss and assets. The effective date for the update is for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2023 and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024 and should be applied on a retrospective basis to all periods presented. The Company is currently evaluating the effect of adopting the update on its related disclosures.
In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-09, Income Taxes Topic 740, Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures. The guidance requires disclosure of disaggregated information about the Company’s effective tax rate reconciliation as well as information on income taxes paid. The disclosure requirements will be applied on a prospective basis, with the option to apply it retrospectively. The effective date for the update is for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024. The Company is currently evaluating the effect of the update on its related disclosures.