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Accrued Liabilities (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Jan. 31, 2013
Accrued Liabilities, Current [Abstract] |
Schedule of Accrued Liabilities [Table Text Block] | Accrued liabilities at January 31, 2013 and October 31, 2012 consisted of the following:
| January 31, 2013 |  | October 31, 2012
Accrued payroll and employee benefits (1) | $ | 3,560 |  |  | $ | 3,907 |
Accrued contract and operating costs (2) | 36 |  |  | 39 |
Reserve for product warranty cost (3) | 2,384 |  |  | 2,317 |
Reserve for service agreement costs (4) | 7,957 |  |  | 7,222 |
Reserve for B1200 repair and upgrade program (5) | 4,669 |  |  | 4,753 |
Accrued taxes, legal, professional and other (6) | 2,237 |  |  | 2,027 |
| $ | 20,843 |  |  | $ | 20,265 |
(1) | Balance relates to amounts owed to employees for compensation and benefits as of the end of the period.
(2) | Balance includes estimated losses accrued on product sales contracts.
(3) | Activity in the reserve for product warranty costs for the three months ended January 31, 2013 included additions for estimates of potential future warranty obligations of $1.7 million on contracts in the warranty period and reserve reductions related to actual warranty spend and reversals to income of $1.6 million as contracts progress through the warranty period or are beyond the warranty period.
(4) | As of January 31, 2013, the loss reserve on service agreement contracts totaled $5.6 million compared to $5.0 million as of October 31, 2012. Also included in this line item is a reserve for performance guarantees penalties under the terms of our customer contracts, which based on our ongoing analysis of historical fleet performance totaled $2.4 million and $2.2 million as of January 31, 2013 and October 31, 2012, respectively.
(5) | For the three months ended January 31, 2013, the Company incurred actual repair and upgrade costs of approximately $0.1 million.
(6) | Balance includes accrued sales, use and payroll taxes as well as accrued legal, professional and other expenses as of the end of the period.

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