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Accrued Expenses | 6 Months Ended
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Apr. 30, 2023
Payables and Accruals [Abstract] |
Accrued Expenses | Accrued Expenses Accrued expenses at April 30, 2023 and October 31, 2022 consisted of the following (amounts in thousands):
| April 30, 2023 |  | October 31, 2022
Land, land development, and construction | $ | 418,048 |  |  | $ | 334,975 |
Compensation and employee benefits | 170,448 |  |  | 223,609 |
Escrow liability associated with our wholly owned captive title company | 40,459 |  |  | 44,115 |
Self-insurance | 245,687 |  |  | 251,576 |
Warranty | 149,395 |  |  | 164,409 |
Lease liabilities | 142,901 |  |  | 139,664 |
Deferred income | 47,846 |  |  | 50,973 |
Interest | 32,212 |  |  | 31,988 |
Commitments to unconsolidated entities | 31,744 |  |  | 26,905 |
Other | 55,457 |  |  | 77,773 |
| $ | 1,334,197 |  |  | $ | 1,345,987 |
The table below provides, for the periods indicated, a reconciliation of the changes in our warranty accrual (amounts in thousands):
| Three months ended April 30, |  | Six months ended April 30,
| 2023 |  | 2022 |  | 2023 |  | 2022
Balance, beginning of period | $ | 156,895 |  |  | $ | 143,043 |  |  | $ | 164,409 |  |  | $ | 145,062 |
Additions – homes closed during the period | 10,084 |  |  | 13,745 |  |  | 17,270 |  |  | 23,200 |
Change in accruals for homes closed in prior years – net | (73) |  |  | 715 |  |  | 2,023 |  |  | 3,672 |
Charges incurred | (17,511) |  |  | (13,512) |  |  | (34,307) |  |  | (27,943) |
Balance, end of period | $ | 149,395 |  |  | $ | 143,991 |  |  | $ | 149,395 |  |  | $ | 143,991 |
Since fiscal 2014, we have received water intrusion claims from owners of homes built since 2002 in communities located in Pennsylvania and Delaware. Our recorded estimated repair costs to resolve these claims were approximately $44.2 million at April 30, 2023 and $46.9 million at October 31, 2022, and are included in the Warranty accrued expense above. We continue to perform review procedures to assess, among other things, the number of affected homes, whether repairs are likely to be required, and the extent of such repairs. Our review process, conducted quarterly, includes an analysis of many factors to determine whether a claim is likely to be received and the estimated costs to resolve any such claim, including: the closing dates of the homes; the number of claims received; our inspection of homes; an estimate of the number of homes we expect to repair; the type and cost of repairs that have been performed in each community; the estimated costs to remediate pending and future claims; the expected recovery from our insurance carriers and suppliers; and the previously recorded amounts related to these claims. We also monitor legal developments relating to these types of claims and review the volume, relative merits and adjudication of claims in litigation or arbitration. Our review process includes a number of estimates that are based on assumptions with uncertain outcomes. Due to the degree of judgment required in making these estimates and the inherent uncertainty in potential outcomes, it is reasonably possible that our actual costs and recoveries could differ from those recorded and such differences could be material. In addition, due to such uncertainty, we are unable to estimate the range of any such differences.

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