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Valuation and Qualifying Accounts | 12 Months Ended
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Oct. 31, 2012
Valuation and Qualifying Accounts [Abstract] |
Valuation and Qualifying Accounts | VALUATION AND QUALIFYING ACCOUNTS (in thousands)
|  | Fiscal year ended October 31: |  | Balance at beginning of year |  | Additions(1) |  | Deductions(2) |  | Balance at end of year
Allowance for customer deductions |  |  |  | 2010 |  |  |  |  | 1,253 |  |  |  |  | 6,474 |  |  |  |  | 6,912 |  |  |  |  | 815 |
|  |  |  | 2011 |  |  |  |  | 815 |  |  |  |  | 8,674 |  |  |  |  | 7,693 |  |  |  |  | 1,796 |
|  |  |  | 2012 |  |  |  |  | 1,796 |  |  |  |  | 9,886 |  |  |  |  | 8,989 |  |  |  |  | 2,693 |
Allowance for doubtful accounts |  |  |  | 2010 |  |  |  |  | 1,100 |  |  |  |  | 127 |  |  |  |  | 670 |  |  |  |  | 557 |
|  |  |  | 2011 |  |  |  |  | 557 |  |  |  |  | 91 |  |  |  |  | 159 |  |  |  |  | 489 |
|  |  |  | 2012 |  |  |  |  | 489 |  |  |  |  | 130 |  |  |  |  | 91 |  |  |  |  | 528 |
(1) | Charged to net sales (customer deductions) or costs and expenses (doubtful accounts).
(2) | Customer deductions taken or write off of accounts receivables.

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- Definition The entire disclosure for any allowance and reserve accounts (their beginning and ending balances, as well as a reconciliation by type of activity during the period). Alternatively, disclosure of the required information may be within the footnotes to the financial statements or a supplemental schedule to the financial statements. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher SEC -Name Regulation S-X (SX) -Number 210 -Section 09 -Article 12 Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 235 -SubTopic 10 -Section S99 -Paragraph 4 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6881521&loc=d3e24092-122690 + Details
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