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Business Segments (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Jul. 31, 2011

Business Segments

Financial Highlights By Business Segment

		Three Months Ended July 31, 2011
		Executive Recruitment
		North America				EMEA				Asia Pacific				South America				Subtotal				Futurestep				Corporate				Consolidated
		(in thousands)
Fee revenue		$	98,425			$	43,242			$	25,675			$	8,791			$	176,133			$	30,198			$	—			$	206,331
Total revenue		$	103,186			$	44,526			$	26,211			$	8,997			$	182,920			$	31,670			$	—			$	214,590
Operating income (loss)		$	24,026			$	5,344			$	3,934			$	2,283			$	35,587			$	2,306			$	(11,951	)		$	25,942
		Three Months Ended July 31, 2010
		Executive Recruitment
		North America				EMEA				Asia Pacific				South America				Subtotal				Futurestep				Corporate				Consolidated
		(in thousands)
Fee revenue		$	89,975			$	36,268			$	21,142			$	7,486			$	154,871			$	20,241			$	—			$	175,112
Total revenue		$	95,065			$	37,138			$	21,603			$	7,618			$	161,424			$	21,738			$	—			$	183,162
Operating income (loss)		$	19,675			$	3,053			$	3,069			$	1,879			$	27,676			$	989			$	(9,393	)		$	19,272

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Tabular disclosure of the profit or loss and total assets for each reportable segment. An entity discloses certain information on each reportable segment if the amounts (a) are included in the measure of segment profit or loss reviewed by the chief operating decision maker or (b) are otherwise regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker, even if not included in that measure of segment profit or loss.

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