Company: LENZ
Filing Date: 2025-11-05
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001815776-25-000071
Chunk: 334

Company: LENZ Therapeutics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-11-05
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 8
Chunk 334
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 in which any impairment is first identified. Any such impairment charge is recorded as a component of cost of sales in the condensed statements of operations and comprehensive loss. The determination of whether inventory costs will be realizable requires estimates by management. If actual market conditions are less favorable than projected by management, additional write-downs of inventory may be required. The Company capitalizes inventory costs associated with products following regulatory approval when future commercialization is considered probable and the future economic benefit is expected to be realized. As such, when regulatory approval is received, this may result in zero-cost inventory which does not have a carrying value, and is available to the Company to utilize for commercial operations. The Company periodically evaluates zero cost inventory for obsolescence. This evaluation considers the shelf life of raw materials, work in process, and finished goods inventory, as well as estimated sales trends. As of September 30, 2025, no zero cost inventory was determined to be obsolete.Products that may be used in clinical development programs are excluded from inventory and the costs are charged to research and development expense in the condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss as incurred, as long as they do not have an alternative use. Prior to FDA approval of VIZZ on July 31, 2025, costs related to the production of inventory were expensed in the period incurred within research and development expenses on the condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss. Inventory at September 30, 2025 consisted of raw materials procured after FDA approval of VIZZ on July 31, 2025.Long-term InvestmentLong-term investments without a readily determinable fair value are accounted for using the cost method. The cost method is applied when there is no active market for the investment, thus the fair value cannot be reliably determined. The cost of long-term investments include the purchase price, and are adjusted to fair value based on any observable changes in market value or any impairment losses. The Company had one long-term equity investment which was classified as a non-current asset in the condensed consolidated balance sheets, as the Company had no intent to sell or dispose of the long-term investment within one year of the balance sheet date.Equity investments without a readily determinable fair value are remeasured from time to time based on observable price changes in orderly transactions for an identical or similar investment. Changes in fair value due to observable price changes are recorded as other income (expense) in the condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss in the period in which they occur.Impairment of long-term investments is