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SEGMENT REPORTING | 6 Months Ended
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Apr. 30, 2015
SEGMENT REPORTING |
SEGMENT REPORTING | (9) Worldwide net sales and revenues, operating profit and identifiable assets by segment in millions of dollars follow:
|  | Three Months Ended April 30 |  | Six Months Ended April 30 |
|  | 2015 |  | 2014 |  | % Change |  | 2015 |  | 2014 |  | % Change |
Net sales and revenues: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Agriculture and turf |  | $ | 5,766 |  | $ | 7,646 |  | -25 |  | $ | 9,847 |  | $ | 13,242 |  | -26 |
Construction and forestry |  | 1,633 |  | 1,600 |  | +2 |  | 3,157 |  | 2,953 |  | +7 |
Total net sales |  | 7,399 |  | 9,246 |  | -20 |  | 13,004 |  | 16,195 |  | -20 |
Financial services |  | 653 |  | 572 |  | +14 |  | 1,301 |  | 1,159 |  | +12 |
Other revenues |  | 119 |  | 130 |  | -8 |  | 249 |  | 248 |  |  |
Total net sales and revenues |  | $ | 8,171 |  | $ | 9,948 |  | -18 |  | $ | 14,554 |  | $ | 17,602 |  | -17 |
Operating profit: * |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Agriculture and turf |  | $ | 639 |  | $ | 1,229 |  | -48 |  | $ | 907 |  | $ | 2,026 |  | -55 |
Construction and forestry |  | 189 |  | 132 |  | +43 |  | 335 |  | 226 |  | +48 |
Financial services |  | 265 |  | 229 |  | +16 |  | 498 |  | 411 |  | +21 |
Total operating profit |  | 1,093 |  | 1,590 |  | -31 |  | 1,740 |  | 2,663 |  | -35 |
Reconciling items ** |  | (79) |  | (130) |  | -39 |  | (168) |  | (241) |  | -30 |
Income taxes |  | (324) |  | (479) |  | -32 |  | (495) |  | (760) |  | -35 |
Net income attributable to Deere & Company |  | $ | 690 |  | $ | 981 |  | -30 |  | $ | 1,077 |  | $ | 1,662 |  | -35 |
Intersegment sales and revenues: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Agriculture and turf net sales |  | $ | 12 |  | $ | 23 |  | -48 |  | $ | 25 |  | $ | 42 |  | -40 |
Construction and forestry net sales |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1 |  |  |
Financial services |  | 56 |  | 59 |  | -5 |  | 106 |  | 105 |  | +1 |
Equipment operations outside the U.S. and Canada: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Net sales |  | $ | 2,628 |  | $ | 3,672 |  | -28 |  | $ | 4,502 |  | $ | 6,280 |  | -28 |
Operating profit |  | 231 |  | 341 |  | -32 |  | 308 |  | 552 |  | -44 |
|  | April 30 2015 |  | October 31 2014 |  |  |
Identifiable assets: |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Agriculture and turf |  | $ | 9,252 |  | $ | 9,442 |  | -2 |
Construction and forestry |  | 3,565 |  | 3,405 |  | +5 |
Financial services |  | 41,398 |  | 42,784 |  | -3 |
Corporate |  | 5,379 |  | 5,705 |  | -6 |
Total assets |  | $ | 59,594 |  | $ | 61,336 |  | -3 |
* Operating profit is income from continuing operations before corporate expenses, certain external interest expense, certain foreign exchange gains and losses and income taxes. Operating profit of the financial services segment includes the effect of interest expense and foreign exchange gains and losses. ** Reconciling items are primarily corporate expenses, certain external interest expense, certain foreign exchange gains and losses and net income attributable to noncontrolling interests.

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- Definition The entire disclosure for reporting segments including data and tables. Reportable segments include those that meet any of the following quantitative thresholds a) it's reported revenue, including sales to external customers and intersegment sales or transfers is 10 percent or more of the combined revenue, internal and external, of all operating segments b) the absolute amount of its reported profit or loss is 10 percent or more of the greater, in absolute amount of 1) the combined reported profit of all operating segments that did not report a loss or 2) the combined reported loss of all operating segments that did report a loss c) its assets are 10 percent or more of the combined assets of all operating segments. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 29 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=51669610&loc=d3e8864-108599 Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 32 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=51669610&loc=d3e8933-108599 Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 26 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=51669610&loc=d3e8844-108599 Reference 4: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 10 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=51669610&loc=d3e8538-108599 Reference 5: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 1 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=51669610&loc=d3e8380-108599 Reference 6: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 34 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=51669610&loc=d3e8981-108599 Reference 7: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 35 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=51669610&loc=d3e8984-108599 Reference 8: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 30 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=51669610&loc=d3e8906-108599 Reference 9: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 42 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=51669610&loc=d3e9054-108599 Reference 10: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 31 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=51669610&loc=d3e8924-108599 Reference 11: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 40 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=51669610&loc=d3e9031-108599 Reference 12: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 41 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=51669610&loc=d3e9038-108599 Reference 13: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 33 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=51669610&loc=d3e8971-108599 Reference 14: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 12 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=51669610&loc=d3e8595-108599 + Details
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