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Operating Leases (Tables) | 6 Months Ended
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Oct. 31, 2021
Operating Leases [Abstract] |
ROU Assets and Liabilities | For operating leases, the ROU assets and liabilities are presented on our Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statement of Financial Position as follows:
|  | October 31, 2021 |  |  | April 30, 2021 |
Operating lease ROU assets |  | $ | 121,708 |  |  | $ | 121,430 |
Short-term portion of operating lease liabilities |  |  | 22,353 |  |  |  | 22,440 |
Operating lease liabilities, non-current |  | $ | 143,638 |  |  | $ | 145,832 |
Total Net Lease Costs | Our total net lease costs are as follows:
|  | Three Months Ended October 31, |  |  | Six Months Ended October 31, |
|  | 2021 |  |  | 2020 |  |  | 2021 |  |  | 2020 |
Operating lease cost |  | $ | 6,325 |  |  | $ | 6,611 |  |  | $ | 12,242 |  |  | $ | 13,246 |
Variable lease cost |  |  | 397 |  |  |  | 730 |  |  |  | 741 |  |  |  | 1,251 |
Short-term lease cost |  |  | 36 |  |  |  | 92 |  |  |  | 56 |  |  |  | 180 |
Sublease income |  |  | (190 | ) |  |  | (175 | ) |  |  | (391 | ) |  |  | (345 | )
Total net lease cost (1) |  | $ | 6,568 |  |  | $ | 7,258 |  |  | $ | 12,648 |  |  | $ | 14,332 |
(1) | Total net lease cost does not include those costs and sublease income included in Restructuring and related (credits) charges on our Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Net Income. This includes those operating leases we had identified in the year ended April 30, 2021 as part of our Business Optimization program that would be subleased. See Note 9, “Restructuring and Related (Credits) Charges” for more information on this program.
Other Supplemental Information for Operating Leases | Other supplemental information includes the following:
|  | Six Months Ended October 31, |
|  | 2021 |  |  | 2020 |
Weighted-average remaining contractual lease term (years) |  |  | 9 |  |  |  | 9 |
Weighted-average discount rate |  |  | 5.79 | % |  |  | 5.91 | %
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Operating cash flows from operating leases |  | $ | 14,846 |  |  | $ | 16,866 |
Reconciliation of Undiscounted Cash Flows to Operating Lease Liabilities | The table below reconciles the undiscounted cash flows for the first five years and total of the remaining years to the operating lease liabilities recorded in our Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statement of Financial Position as of October 31, 2021:
Fiscal Year |  | Operating Lease Liabilities |
2022 (remaining 6 months) |  | $ | 15,618 |
2023 |  |  | 28,159 |
2024 |  |  | 26,768 |
2025 |  |  | 25,364 |
2026 |  |  | 22,694 |
Thereafter |  |  | 95,573 |
Total future undiscounted minimum lease payments |  |  | 214,176 |
Less: Imputed interest |  |  | 48,185 |
Present value of minimum lease payments |  |  | 165,991 |
Less: Current portion |  |  | 22,353 |
Noncurrent portion |  | $ | 143,638 |

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