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Accrued Liabilities (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Oct. 31, 2014
Accrued Liabilities [Abstract] |
Schedule of Accrued Liabilities [Table Text Block] | Accrued liabilities at October 31, 2014 and 2013 consisted of the following:
|  | 2014 |  | 2013
Accrued payroll and employee benefits |  | $ | 4,432 |  |  | $ | 4,647 |
Accrued contract and operating costs |  | 34 |  |  | 87 |
Accrued product warranty costs (1) |  | 1,156 |  |  | 860 |
Accrued service agreement costs |  | 3,882 |  |  | 4,186 |
Accrued B1200 repair and upgrade program and modules due POSCO Energy (2) |  | — |  |  | 7,267 |
Accrued taxes, legal, professional and other |  | 2,562 |  |  | 4,865 |
|  | $ | 12,066 |  |  | $ | 21,912 |
(1) | Activity in the accrued product warranty costs during the year ended October 31, 2014 and 2013 included additions for estimates of potential future warranty obligations of $2.4 million and $1.2 million, respectively, on contracts in the warranty period and reductions related to actual warranty spend of $1.2 million and $0.3 million, respectively, as contracts progress through the warranty period or are beyond the warranty period.
(2) | The balance of the accrual at October 31, 2013 related to three replacement modules due to POSCO Energy, which were delivered in the first quarter of 2014.

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