Accounting Policies and Basis of Presentation | 1. Accounting Policies and Basis of Presentation The Manitowoc Company, Inc. (“Manitowoc” and the “Company”) was founded in 1902 and has over a 117-year tradition of providing high-quality, customer-focused products and support services to its markets. Manitowoc is one of the world’s leading providers of engineered lifting solutions. Manitowoc, through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, markets, and supports comprehensive product lines of mobile telescopic cranes, tower cranes, lattice-boom crawler cranes, and boom trucks under the Grove, Manitowoc, National Crane, Potain, Shuttlelift and Manitowoc Crane Care brand names. The Company serves a wide variety of customers, including dealers, rental companies, contractors, and government entities, across the petrochemical, industrial, commercial construction, power and utilities, infrastructure and residential construction end markets. Additionally, its Manitowoc Crane Care offering leverages Manitowoc's installed base of approximately 149,000 cranes to provide aftermarket parts and services to enable its customers to manage their fleets more effectively and improve their return on investment. Due to the ongoing and predictable maintenance needed by cranes, as well as the high cost of crane downtime, Manitowoc Crane Care provides the Company with a consistent stream of recurring revenue. The Company has three reportable segments, the Americas segment, Europe and Africa (“EURAF”) segment and Middle East and Asia Pacific (“MEAP”) segment. The segments were identified using the “management approach,” which designates the internal organization that is used by management for making operating decisions and assessing performance. Refer to Note 17, “Segments” for additional information. In the opinion of management, the accompanying unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements contain all adjustments necessary for a fair statement of the results of operations and comprehensive income for the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019, the cash flows for the same three-month periods and the financial position and equity at March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, and except as otherwise discussed, such adjustments consist of only those of a normal recurring nature. The interim results are not necessarily indicative of results for a full year and do not contain information included in the Company’s annual consolidated financial statements and notes for the year ended December 31, 2019. Certain information and footnote disclosures, normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“GAAP”), have been condensed or omitted pursuant to Securities and Exchange Commission rules and regulations dealing with interim financial statements. However, the Company believes that the disclosures made in the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements included herein are adequate to make the information presented not misleading. It is suggested that these financial statements be read in conjunction with the financial statements and the notes thereto included in the Company’s latest annual report on Form 10-K. All dollar amounts, except share amounts, are in millions of dollars throughout the tables in these notes unless otherwise indicated. Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic During the first quarter of 2020, the outbreak of COVID-19 spread throughout the world and became a global pandemic. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, various national, state, and local governments where the Company, its suppliers and customers operate have implemented numerous measures to try to contain the virus, such as travel bans and restrictions, border closings, restrictions on public gatherings, quarantining of people who may have been exposed to the virus, shelter-in-place restrictions, and limitations or shutdowns of business operations. The Company has significant operations worldwide, including in the United States, France, Germany, Portugal, Italy and China and each of these countries has been affected by the outbreak and taken measures to try to contain it, resulting in disruptions at some of the Company’s manufacturing facilities and support operations. Although the Company continues to operate in the United States as an essential business, certain facilities around the world were closed at some point throughout the quarter. There is considerable uncertainty regarding the impact, and expected duration, of the pandemic, and restrictions on the Company’s access to its facilities or on its support operations or workforce, or similar limitations for its customers, dealers and suppliers. There is no certainty that measures taken by governmental authorities will be sufficient to mitigate the risks posed by the virus, and the Company’s ability to perform critical functions could be harmed. This uncertainty could have an impact in future periods on certain estimates used in the preparation of the Company’s first quarter financial results, including, but not limited to, impairment of goodwill and other long-lived assets, income tax provision, recoverability of inventory and hedge accounting with respect to forecasted future transactions. |