Company: ASAN
Filing Date: 2025-03-18
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001477720-25-000045
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Company: Asana, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-18
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 7
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 are distinguishable from ongoing operating costs and are not reflective of underlying trends in our business. We believe it is useful to exclude these expenses in order to better understand the long-term performance of our core business, to facilitate comparison of our results to those of peer companies, and to facilitate comparison over multiple periods.

We define non-GAAP net loss as net loss plus stock-based compensation expense and the related employer payroll tax associated with RSUs, impairment of long-lived assets, and restructuring costs.

We use non-GAAP loss from operations and non-GAAP net loss in conjunction with traditional GAAP measures to evaluate our financial performance. We believe that non-GAAP loss from operations and non-GAAP net loss provide our management and investors consistency and comparability with our past financial performance and facilitates period-to-period comparisons of operations. 

Free Cash Flow and Adjusted Free Cash Flow

We define free cash flow as net cash from operating activities less cash used for purchases of property and equipment and capitalized internal-use software costs, plus non-recurring capital expenditures from the purchases of property and equipment associated with the build-out of our corporate headquarters in San Francisco. We define adjusted free cash flow as free cash flow plus restructuring costs paid. We believe that free cash flow and adjusted free cash flow are useful indicators of liquidity that provide information to management and investors, even if negative, about the amount of cash used in our operations other than that used for investments in property and equipment and capitalized internal-use software costs, adjusted for expenditures which are distinguishable from our ongoing operations.

Limitations and Reconciliations of Non-GAAP Financial Measures

Non-GAAP financial measures have limitations as analytical tools and should not be considered in isolation or as substitutes for financial information presented under GAAP. There are a number of limitations related to the use of non-GAAP financial measures versus comparable financial measures determined under GAAP. For example, other companies in our industry may calculate these non-GAAP financial measures differently or may use other 

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measures to evaluate their performance. In addition, free cash flow and adjusted free cash flow do not reflect our future contractual commitments and the total increase or decrease of our cash balance for a given period. All of these limitations could reduce the usefulness of these non-GAAP financial measures as analytical tools. Investors are encouraged to review the related GAAP financial measures and the reconciliations of these non-GAAP financial measures to their most directly comparable GAAP financial measures and to not rely on any single financial measure to evaluate our business.

The following tables reconcile the most directly comparable GA