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Reconciliation of Weighted Average Shares Outstanding and Share Repurchases (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Jul. 31, 2018
Reconciliation of Weighted Average Shares Outstanding and Share Repurchases [Abstract] |
Reconciliation of Shares used in Computation of Earnings Per Share | A reconciliation of the shares used in the computation of earnings per share follows:
|  | Three Months Ended July 31, |
|  | 2018 |  |  | 2017 |
Weighted average shares outstanding |  |  | 57,510 |  |  |  | 57,188 |
Less: Unvested restricted shares |  |  | (80 | ) |  |  | (172 | )
Shares used for basic earnings per share |  |  | 57,430 |  |  |  | 57,016 |
Dilutive effect of stock options and other stock awards |  |  | 684 |  |  |  | 693 |
Shares used for diluted earnings per share |  |  | 58,114 |  |  |  | 57,709 |

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- Definition Tabular disclosure of the weighted average number of shares used in calculating basic net earnings per share (or unit) and diluted earnings per share (or unit). + References Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 260 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 1 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6371337&loc=d3e3550-109257 + Details
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