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Note 3 - Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Oct. 31, 2014
Accounting Policies [Abstract] |
Schedule Of Real Estate Inventory Capitalized Interest Costs [Table Text Block] |
|  | Year Ended |
(Dollars in thousands) |  | October 31, 201 4 |  |  | October 31, 201 3 |  |  | October 31, 201 2 |
Interest capitalized at beginning of year |  | $105,093 |  |  | $116,056 |  |  | $121,441 |
Plus interest incurred(1) |  | 145,409 |  |  | 132,611 |  |  | 147,048 |
Less cost of sales interest expensed |  | 53,966 |  |  | 52,230 |  |  | 54,538 |
Less other interest expensed(2)(3) |  | 87,378 |  |  | 91,344 |  |  | 97,895 |
Interest capitalized at end of year(4) |  | $109,158 |  |  | $105,093 |  |  | $116,056 |
(1) | Data does not include interest incurred by our mortgage and finance subsidiaries.
(2) | Other interest expensed is comprised of interest that does not qualify for capitalization because our assets that qualify for interest capitalization (inventory under development) do not exceed our debt. Interest on completed homes and land in planning which does not qualify for capitalization is expensed.
(3) | Cash paid for interest, net of capitalized interest is the sum of other interest expensed, as defined above, and interest paid by our mortgage and finance subsidiaries adjusted for the change in accrued interest, which is calculated as follows:
(4) | C ap italized interest amounts are shown gross before allocating any portion of inventory impairments to capitalized interest.
Cash Paid for Interest, Net of Capitalized Interest [Table Text Block] |
|  | Year Ended |
(Dollars in thousands) |  | October 31, 201 4 |  |  | October 31, 201 3 |  |  | October 31, 201 2 |
Other interest expensed |  | $87,378 |  |  | $91,344 |  |  | $97,895 |
Interest paid by our mortgage and finance subsidiaries |  | 1,969 |  |  | 2,975 |  |  | 2,433 |
(Increase) decrease in accrued interest |  | (3,961 | ) |  | (8,062 | ) |  | 1,132 |
Cash paid for interest, net of capitalized interest |  | $85,386 |  |  | $86,257 |  |  | $101,460 |

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