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Accrued Liabilities (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Jan. 31, 2014
Accrued Liabilities, Current [Abstract] |
Schedule of Accrued Liabilities [Table Text Block] | Accrued liabilities at January 31, 2014 and October 31, 2013 consisted of the following:
| January 31, 2014 |  | October 31, 2013
Accrued payroll and employee benefits (1) | $ | 3,266 |  |  | $ | 4,647 |
Accrued contract and operating costs (2) | 34 |  |  | 87 |
Reserve for product warranty cost (3) | 1,043 |  |  | 860 |
Reserve for service agreement costs (4) | 3,048 |  |  | 4,186 |
Reserve for repair and upgrade program and modules due POSCO Energy (5) | 389 |  |  | 7,267 |
Accrued taxes, legal, professional and other (6) | 2,819 |  |  | 4,865 |
Accrued Liabilities | $ | 10,599 |  |  | $ | 21,912 |
(1) | Balance relates to amounts owed to employees for compensation and benefits as of the end of the period. The decrease in the period reflects payments of employee bonuses offset by other activity, net.
(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, 2014 included additions for estimates of potential future warranty obligations of $1.2 million on contracts in the warranty period and reserve reductions related to actual warranty spend of $1.0 million as contracts progress through the warranty period or are beyond the warranty period.
(4) | As of January 31, 2014 and October 31, 2013, the loss reserve on SA's totaled $2.2 million and $3.7 million, respectively. 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 $0.9 million and $0.5 million as of January 31, 2014 and October 31, 2013, respectively.
(5) | The decrease in the reserve as of January 31, 2014 compared to October 31, 2013 is a result of three replacement modules having been provided to POSCO Energy under the terms of the Master Service Agreement with POSCO Energy.
(6) | Balance includes accrued sales, use and payroll taxes as well as estimated legal, professional and other expense estimates as of the end of the period.

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