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Prepaid Expenses and Other | 6 Months Ended
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May 01, 2021
Deferred Costs, Capitalized, Prepaid, and Other Assets Disclosure [Abstract] |
Prepaid Expenses and Other | PREPAID EXPENSES AND OTHERAs of the dates indicated, prepaid expenses and other are comprised of the following (in thousands):
| May 1, 2021 |  | October 31, 2020
Contract assets for unbilled accounts receivable, net | $ | 81,437 |  |  | $ | 85,843 |
Prepaid expenses | 77,389 |  |  | 70,647 |
Prepaid VAT and other taxes | 72,325 |  |  | 72,838 |
Product demonstration equipment, net | 45,151 |  |  | 44,793 |
Other non-trade receivables | 14,193 |  |  | 21,981 |
Derivative assets | 13,785 |  |  | 82 |
Capitalized contract acquisition costs | 13,008 |  |  | 11,296 |
CEWS receivable | 3,942 |  |  | — |
Deferred deployment expense | 421 |  |  | 604 |
| $ | 321,651 |  |  | $ | 308,084 |
Depreciation of product demonstration equipment was $5.1 million during the first six months of fiscal 2021 and $4.2 million during the first six months of fiscal 2020. For further discussion on contract assets and capitalized contract acquisition costs, see Note 3 above.

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