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Inventory | 3 Months Ended
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Jan. 31, 2013
Inventory Disclosure [Abstract] |
Inventory | Inventory Inventory at January 31, 2013 and October 31, 2012 consisted of the following (amounts in thousands):
| January 31, 2013 |  | October 31, 2012
Land controlled for future communities | $ | 54,521 |  |  | $ | 56,300 |
Land owned for future communities | 1,253,102 |  |  | 1,040,373 |
Operating communities | 2,847,424 |  |  | 2,664,514 |
| $ | 4,155,047 |  |  | $ | 3,761,187 |
Operating communities include communities offering homes for sale, communities that have sold all available home sites but have not completed delivery of the homes, communities that were previously offering homes for sale but are temporarily closed due to business conditions or non-availability of improved home sites and that are expected to reopen within twelve months of the end of the fiscal period being reported on, and communities preparing to open for sale. The carrying value attributable to operating communities includes the cost of homes under construction, land and land development costs, the carrying cost of home sites in current and future phases of these communities and the carrying cost of model homes. Communities that were previously offering homes for sale but are temporarily closed due to business conditions that do not have any remaining backlog and are not expected to reopen within twelve months of the end of the fiscal period being reported on have been classified as land owned for future communities. Information regarding the classification, number and carrying value of these temporarily closed communities, as of the date indicated, is provided in the table below.
| January 31, 2013 |  | October 31, 2012
Land owned for future communities: |  |  |
Number of communities | 24 |  |  | 40 |
Carrying value (in thousands) | $ | 159,931 |  |  | $ | 240,307 |
Operating communities: |  |  |
Number of communities | 21 |  |  | 5 |
Carrying value (in thousands) | $ | 108,143 |  |  | $ | 34,685 |
The Company provided for inventory impairment charges and the expensing of costs that it believed not to be recoverable, for the periods indicated; these are shown in the table below (amounts in thousands).
| Three months ended January 31,
| 2013 |  | 2012
Charge: |  |  |
Land controlled for future communities | $ | 9 |  |  | $ | 777 |
Land owned for future communities | — |  |  | 918 |
Operating communities | 700 |  |  | 6,425 |
| $ | 709 |  |  | $ | 8,120 |
See Note 12, "Fair Value Disclosures", for information regarding the number of operating communities that the Company tested for potential impairment, the number of operating communities in which it recognized impairment charges, the amount of impairment charges recognized, and the fair values of those communities, net of impairment charges. At January 31, 2013, the Company evaluated its land purchase contracts to determine if any of the selling entities were variable interest entities ("VIEs") and, if they were, whether the Company was the primary beneficiary of any of them. Under these land purchase contracts, the Company does not possess legal title to the land and its risk is generally limited to deposits paid to the sellers and the creditors of the sellers generally have no recourse against the Company. At January 31, 2013, the Company determined that 63 land purchase contracts, with an aggregate purchase price of $750.7 million, on which it had made aggregate deposits totaling $33.9 million, were VIEs, and that it was not the primary beneficiary of any VIE related to its land purchase contracts. Interest incurred, capitalized and expensed, for the periods indicated, was as follows (amounts in thousands):
| Three months ended January 31,
| 2013 |  | 2012
Interest capitalized, beginning of period | $ | 330,581 |  |  | $ | 298,757 |
Interest incurred | 31,748 |  |  | 28,899 |
Interest expensed to cost of revenues | (19,974 | ) |  | (16,321 | )
Write-off against other income | (88 | ) |  |  |
Interest capitalized on investments in unconsolidated entities | (1,363 | ) |  |  |
Interest capitalized, end of period | $ | 340,904 |  |  | $ | 311,335 |
Inventory impairment charges are recognized against all inventory costs of a community, such as land, land improvements, cost of home construction and capitalized interest. The amounts included in the table directly above reflect the gross amount of capitalized interest without allocation of any impairment charges recognized. The Company estimates that, had inventory impairment charges been allocated on a pro-rata basis to the individual components of inventory, capitalized interest at January 31, 2013 and 2012 would have been reduced by approximately $46.2 million and $53.9 million, respectively.

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- Definition The entire disclosure for inventory. This may include, but is not limited to, the basis of stating inventory, the method of determining inventory cost, the major classes of inventory, and the nature of the cost elements included in inventory. If inventory is stated above cost, accrued net losses on firm purchase commitments for inventory and losses resulting from valuing inventory at the lower-of-cost-or-market may also be included. For LIFO inventory, may disclose the amount and basis for determining the excess of replacement or current cost over stated LIFO value and the effects of a LIFO quantities liquidation that impacts net income. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 210 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 1 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6361739&loc=d3e7789-107766 Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher AICPA -Name Accounting Research Bulletin (ARB) -Number 43 -Section A -Paragraph 9 -Chapter 3 -LegacyDoc This reference is SUPERSEDED by the Accounting Standards Codification effective for interim and annual periods ending after September 15, 2009. This reference is included to help users transition from the previous accounting hierarchy and will be removed from future versions of this taxonomy. Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 210 -SubTopic 10 -Section S99 -Paragraph 1 -Subparagraph (SX 210.5-02.6) -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6877327&loc=d3e13212-122682 Reference 4: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher SEC -Name Regulation S-X (SX) -Number 210 -Section 02 -Paragraph 6 -Subparagraph a, b, c -Article 5 + Details
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