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Accrued Liabilities (Tables) | 6 Months Ended
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Apr. 30, 2014
Accrued Liabilities, Current [Abstract] |
Schedule of Accrued Liabilities [Table Text Block] | Accrued liabilities at April 30, 2014 and October 31, 2013 consisted of the following:
| April 30, 2014 |  | October 31, 2013
Accrued payroll and employee benefits (1) | $ | 4,178 |  |  | $ | 4,647 |
Accrued contract and operating costs (2) | 34 |  |  | 87 |
Reserve for product warranty cost (3) | 1,126 |  |  | 860 |
Reserve for service agreement costs (4) | 3,025 |  |  | 4,186 |
Reserve for repair and upgrade program and modules due POSCO Energy (5) | 159 |  |  | 7,267 |
Accrued taxes, legal, professional and other (6) | 3,548 |  |  | 4,865 |
Accrued Liabilities | $ | 12,070 |  |  | $ | 21,912 |
(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 six months ended April 30, 2014 included additions for estimates of potential future warranty obligations of $1.9 million on contracts in the warranty period and reserve reductions related to actual warranty spend of $1.7 million as contracts progress through the warranty period or are beyond the warranty period.
(4) | As of April 30, 2014 and October 31, 2013, the loss reserve on SA's totaled $2.5 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 $0.6 million and $0.5 million as of April 30, 2014 and October 31, 2013, respectively.
(5) | The balance of the reserve at October 31, 2013 relates to three replacement modules due to 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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