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Business Segments | 3 Months Ended
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Apr. 01, 2018
Segment Reporting [Abstract] |
Business Segments | Business Segments Harley-Davidson, Inc. is the parent company for the groups of companies doing business as Harley-Davidson Motor Company (HDMC) and Harley-Davidson Financial Services (HDFS). The Company operates in two segments: the Motorcycles & Related Products (Motorcycles) segment and the Financial Services segment. The Company’s reportable segments are strategic business units that offer different products and services and are managed separately based on the fundamental differences in their operations. Selected segment information is set forth below (in thousands):
| Three months ended
| April 1, 2018 |  | March 26, 2017
Motorcycles net revenue | $ | 1,363,947 |  |  | $ | 1,328,711 |
Gross profit | 473,773 |  |  | 474,823 |
Selling, administrative and engineering expense | 254,093 |  |  | 238,277 |
Restructuring expense | 46,842 |  |  | — |
Operating income from Motorcycles | 172,838 |  |  | 236,546 |
Financial Services revenue | 178,174 |  |  | 173,221 |
Financial Services expense | 114,595 |  |  | 120,585 |
Operating income from Financial Services | 63,579 |  |  | 52,636 |
Operating income | $ | 236,417 |  |  | $ | 289,182 |
As discussed in Note 2, the Company adopted ASU 2017-07 on January 1, 2018 which required the Company to record the non-service cost components of net periodic benefit plan costs in non-operating income on a prospective and retrospective basis. As a result, operating income from Motorcycles excludes these costs for all periods presented.

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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://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2134510 + Details
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