Basis of Presentation | Basis of Presentation Kirkland’s, Inc. (the “Company”) is a specialty retailer of home décor and gifts in the United States operating 406 stores in 36 states as of July 29, 2017 , as well as an e-Commerce enabled website, www.kirklands.com. The condensed consolidated financial statements of the Company include the accounts of Kirkland’s, Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Kirkland’s Stores, Inc., Kirkland’s DC, Inc., and Kirkland’s Texas, LLC. All intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated. The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States for interim financial information and are presented in accordance with the requirements of Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and notes required for complete financial statements. In the opinion of management, all adjustments, including normal recurring accruals, considered necessary for a fair presentation have been included. These financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited financial statements included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 31, 2017 . It should be understood that accounting measurements at interim dates inherently involve greater reliance on estimates than those at fiscal year-end. In addition, because of seasonality factors, the results of the Company’s operations for the 13-week and 26-week periods ended July 29, 2017 are not indicative of the results to be expected for any other interim period or for the entire fiscal year. The Company’s fiscal year ends on the Saturday closest to January 31, resulting in years of either 52 or 53 weeks. All references to a fiscal year refer to the fiscal year ending on the Saturday closest to January 31 of the following year. The preparation of the condensed consolidated financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the condensed consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes. Actual results could differ from the estimates and assumptions used. Changes in estimates are recognized in the period when new information becomes available to management. Areas where the nature of the estimate makes it reasonably possible that actual results could materially differ from amounts estimated include, but are not limited to impairment assessments on long-lived assets, asset retirement obligations, inventory reserves, self-insurance reserves, income tax liabilities, stock-based compensation, employee bonus accruals, gift card breakage, sales return reserves, customer loyalty program accruals and contingent liabilities. In the fourth quarter of fiscal 2016 , the Company concluded that it was appropriate to classify related party transactions separately in the consolidated financial statements. In fiscal 2016 , this information was provided in the notes to the consolidated financial statements. See “Note 6 - Related Party Transactions” for further discussion. In the first quarter of fiscal 2017, the Company adopted accounting guidance which affected the presentation in the statement of cash flows of excess tax benefits or deficiencies from the exercise of stock options as discussed in Note 7. The Company has elected to apply the amendments using a retrospective transition method for all periods presented and therefore the presentation of previously reported excess tax benefits on the unaudited condensed consolidated statements of cash flows has been changed to conform to the presentation used in the current period. As a result, approximately $78,000 of excess tax benefits related to share-based awards which were previously classified as cash flows from financing activities in the 26-week period ended July 30, 2016 have been reclassified as cash flows from operating activities. Certain other amounts in the fiscal 2016 operating activities section of the condensed consolidated statement of cash flows have been reclassified to conform to the fiscal 2017 presentation. These reclassifications had no effect on reported net income. For the 13-week and 26-week periods ended July 29, 2017, the Company recorded a $1.2 million one-time out-of-period adjustment of ancillary rent payments to prepaid expenses and other current assets from cost of sales. |