Leases

9 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2024

Note 5. Leases

Lessee arrangements

Woodward has entered into operating leases for certain facilities and equipment with terms in excess of one year under agreements that expire at various dates. Some leases require the payment of property taxes, insurance, maintenance

costs, or other similar costs in addition to rental payments. Woodward has also entered into finance leases for equipment with terms in excess of one year under agreements that expire at various dates.

Lease-related assets and liabilities were as follows:


	Classification on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets	June 30, 2024		September 30, 2023
Assets:
Operating lease	Other assets	$	26,742	$	24,680
Finance lease	Property, plant, and equipment, net		2,688		3,337
Total lease assets			29,430		28,017

Current liabilities:
Operating lease	Accrued liabilities		4,864		4,594
Finance lease	Current portion of long-term debt		708		817
Noncurrent liabilities:
Operating lease	Other liabilities		22,415		20,685
Finance lease	Long-term debt, less current portion		2,199		2,733
Total lease liabilities		$	30,186	$	28,829

Lease-related expenses were as follows:


	Three Months Ended June 30,				Nine Months Ended June 30,
	2024		2023		2024		2023
Operating lease expense	$	1,690	$	1,563	$	4,978	$	4,636
Amortization of finance lease assets		174		251		644		663
Interest on finance lease liabilities		33		43		106		117
Variable lease expense		429		225		958		680
Short-term lease expense		42		44		125		152
Total lease expense	$	2,368	$	2,126	$	6,811	$	6,248

Lease-related supplemental cash flow information was as follows:


	Nine Months Ended June 30,
	2024		2023
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities:
Operating cash flows for operating leases	$	3,963	$	3,879
Operating cash flows for finance leases		106		117
Financing cash flows for finance leases		644		535
Right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for recorded lease obligations:
Operating leases		5,803		1,841
Finance leases		—		48

Lessor arrangements

Woodward has assessed its manufacturing contracts and concluded that certain of the contracts for the manufacture of customer products met the criteria to be considered a leasing arrangement (“embedded leases”) with Woodward as the lessor. The specific manufacturing contracts that met the criteria were those that utilized Woodward property, plant, and equipment and which are substantially (more than 90%) dedicated to the manufacturing of the product(s) for a single customer. Woodward has dedicated manufacturing lines with four of its customers representing embedded leases, all of which qualified as operating leases with undefined quantities of future customer purchase commitments.

Although Woodward expects to allocate some portion of future net sales to these customers to embedded lessor arrangements, it cannot provide expected future undiscounted lease payments from property, plant, and equipment leased to customers as of June 30, 2024. If, in the future, customers reduce purchases of related products from Woodward, the Company believes it will derive additional value from the underlying equipment by repurposing its use to support other customer arrangements.

Revenue from contracts with customers that included embedded operating leases, which is included in “Net sales” in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Earnings, was $1,370 for the three months and $4,099 for the nine months ended June 30, 2024, compared to $1,466 for the three months and $4,252 for the nine months ended June 30, 2023.

The carrying amount of property, plant, and equipment leased to others through embedded leasing arrangements, included in “Property, plant, and equipment, net” on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets, follows:


	June 30, 2024			September 30, 2023
Property, plant, and equipment	$	47,210		$	45,766
Less accumulated depreciation		(31,081	)		(28,128	)
Property, plant, and equipment, net	$	16,129		$	17,638