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Segment Information

9 Months Ended

Jan. 31, 2018

Segment Information [Abstract]

Segment Information

8. Segment Information

The Company reports its segment information in accordance with the provisions of FASB Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 280, “Segment Reporting,”.

Segment information is as follows:

		Three Months Ended January 31,								Nine Months Ended January 31,
		2018				2017				2018				2017
Revenue:
Research		$	223,489			$	205,769			$	675,986			$	618,987
Publishing			170,244				171,440				466,507				479,701
Solutions			61,942				59,247				176,357				167,641
Total Revenue		$	455,675			$	436,456			$	1,318,850			$	1,266,329
Contribution to Profit:
Research		$	59,299			$	52,508			$	191,923			$	173,235
Publishing			48,472				38,807				95,957				94,639
Solutions			6,403				3,591				11,744				9,097
Total Contribution to Profit		$	114,174			$	94,906			$	299,624			$	276,971
Corporate Expenses			(46,743	)			(43,746	)			(134,922	)			(134,240	)
Operating Income		$	67,431			$	51,160			$	164,702			$	142,731

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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.

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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

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