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Segment Information | 3 Months Ended
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Oct. 31, 2018
Segment Reporting [Abstract] |
Segment Information | Segment Information The Company is organized and managed on a global basis within three operating segments, Identification Solutions ("IDS"), Workplace Safety ("WPS"), and People Identification ("People ID"), which aggregate into two reportable segments that are organized around businesses with consistent products and services: IDS and WPS. The Identification Solutions and People ID operating segments aggregate into the IDS reporting segment, while the WPS reporting segment is comprised solely of the Workplace Safety operating segment. The Company evaluates short-term segment performance based on segment profit and customer sales. Interest expense, investment and other income (expense), income taxes, and certain corporate administrative expenses are excluded when evaluating segment performance. The following is a summary of net sales by segment and geographic region for the three months ended October 31, 2018 and 2017:
| Three months ended October 31,
| 2018 |  | 2017
Net sales: |  |  |
ID Solutions |  |  |
Americas | $ | 145,791 |  |  | $ | 139,404 |
Europe | 48,828 |  |  | 47,131 |
Asia | 23,481 |  |  | 23,170 |
Total | $ | 218,100 |  |  | $ | 209,705 |
Workplace Safety |  |  |
Americas | $ | 24,751 |  |  | $ | 26,488 |
Europe | 37,655 |  |  | 41,384 |
Australia | 12,690 |  |  | 12,574 |
Total | $ | 75,096 |  |  | $ | 80,446 |
Total Company |  |  |
Americas | $ | 170,542 |  |  | $ | 165,892 |
Europe | 86,483 |  |  | 88,515 |
Asia-Pacific | 36,171 |  |  | 35,744 |
Total | $ | 293,196 |  |  | $ | 290,151 |
Segment profit for the three months ended October 31, 2018 and 2017 is as follows:
| Three months ended October 31,
| 2018 |  | 2017
Segment profit: |  |  |
ID Solutions | $ | 41,562 |  |  | $ | 35,837 |
Workplace Safety | 5,541 |  |  | 6,445 |
Total Company | $ | 47,103 |  |  | $ | 42,282 |
The following is a reconciliation of segment profit to earnings before income taxes for the three months ended October 31, 2018 and 2017:
| Three months ended October 31,
| 2018 |  | 2017
Total profit from reportable segments | $ | 47,103 |  |  | $ | 42,282 |
Unallocated amounts: |  |  |
Administrative costs | (6,481 | ) |  | (6,871 | )
Investment and other (expense) income | (17 | ) |  | 216 |
Interest expense | (712 | ) |  | (863 | )
Earnings before income taxes | $ | 39,893 |  |  | $ | 34,764 |

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- Definition The entire disclosure for reporting segments including data and tables. Reportable segments include those that meet any of the following quantitative thresholds a) it's reported revenue, including sales to external customers and intersegment sales or transfers is 10 percent or more of the combined revenue, internal and external, of all operating segments b) the absolute amount of its reported profit or loss is 10 percent or more of the greater, in absolute amount of 1) the combined reported profit of all operating segments that did not report a loss or 2) the combined reported loss of all operating segments that did report a loss c) its assets are 10 percent or more of the combined assets of all operating segments. + References Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2134510 + Details
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