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Segment Information (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Jul. 31, 2018

Segment Information [Abstract]

Segment Information

Segment information is as follows:

		Three Months Ended July 31,
		2018				2017 (1)
Revenue:
Research		$	224,992			$	223,627
Publishing			124,921				131,278
Solutions			60,988				56,539
Total Revenue		$	410,901			$	411,444
Contribution to Profit:
Research		$	57,126			$	60,462
Publishing			13,720				4,470
Solutions			3,224				(1,968	)
Total Contribution to Profit (1)		$	74,070			$	62,964
Corporate Expenses (1)			(37,930	)			(50,394	)
Operating Income (1)		$	36,140			$	12,570

⁽¹⁾ Due to the retrospective adoption of ASU 2017-07, total net benefits of $1.9 million related to the non-service components of defined benefit and other post-employment benefit plans were reclassified from Operating and Administrative Expenses to Interest Income and Other. Refer to Note 2, "Recent Accounting Standards," in the Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for more information. The impact of the reclassification on Contribution to Profit by segment for the three months ended July 31, 2017 was $1.0 million in Research, $0.5 million in Publishing, and $0.4 million in Corporate expenses.

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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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