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Warranty Guarantees | 3 Months Ended
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Jan. 30, 2015
Warranty Guarantees |
Warranty Guarantees | Warranty Guarantees The company’s products are warranted to ensure customer confidence in design, workmanship, and overall quality. Warranty coverage is for specified periods of time and on select products’ hours of usage, and generally covers parts, labor, and other expenses for non-maintenance repairs. Warranty coverage generally does not cover operator abuse or improper use. An authorized company distributor or dealer must perform warranty work. Distributors and dealers submit claims for warranty reimbursement and are credited for the cost of repairs, labor, and other expenses as long as the repairs meet prescribed standards. Warranty expense is accrued at the time of sale based on the estimated number of products under warranty, historical average costs incurred to service warranty claims, the trend in the historical ratio of claims to sales, the historical length of time between the sale and resulting warranty claim, and other minor factors. Special warranty reserves are also accrued for major rework campaigns. The company sells extended warranty coverage on select products for a prescribed period after the factory warranty period expires. Warranty provisions, claims, and changes in estimates for the first quarter of each of fiscal 2015 and 2014 were as follows:
|  | Three Months Ended |
|  | January 30, |  | January 31, |
(Dollars in thousands) |  | 2015 |  | 2014 |
Beginning balance |  | $ | 71,080 |  | $ | 72,177 |
Warranty provisions |  | 8,420 |  | 8,148 |
Warranty claims |  | (8,572 | ) | (7,000 | )
Changes in estimates |  | — |  | 2,298 |
Addition from an acquisition |  | 786 |  | — |
Ending balance |  | $ | 71,714 |  | $ | 75,623 |

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- Definition The entire disclosure for standard and extended product warranties and other product guarantee contracts, including a tabular reconciliation of the changes in the guarantor's aggregate product warranty liability for the reporting period. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 460 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 8 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6398077&loc=d3e12565-110249 + Details
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