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Recent Accounting Pronouncements | 3 Months Ended
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Jan. 31, 2019
Recent Accounting Pronouncements [Abstract] |
Recent Accounting Pronouncements | Note 2. Recent Accounting Pronouncements Recently Adopted Accounting Guidance In May 2014, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (the “FASB”) issued ASU 2014-09, “Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606)”. The objective of this ASU is to remove inconsistent practices with regard to revenue recognition in and between US GAAP and International Financial Reporting Standards. ASU 2014-09 intends to improve comparability of revenue recognition practices across entities, industries, jurisdictions and capital markets. The adoption of this ASU resulted in a cumulative effect adjustment increasing Accumulated deficit by $6.7 million on November 1, 2018. Recent Accounting Guidance Not Yet Effective In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, “Leases” which, for operating leases, requires a lessee to recognize a right-of-use asset and a lease liability, initially measured at the present value of the lease payments, in its balance sheet. The standard also requires a lessee to recognize a single lease cost, calculated so that the cost of the lease is allocated over the lease term, generally on a straight-line basis. This ASU is effective for public companies for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018, including interim periods within those fiscal years (which, for the Company, will be the first quarter of fiscal year 2020). Early adoption is permitted. The Company has both operating and capital leases (refer to Note 16. “Commitments and Contingencies”) as well as sale-leasebacks accounted for under the finance method and may have other arrangements that contain embedded leases as characterized in this ASU. The Company expects that adoption of this ASU will result in the recognition of right-of-use assets and lease liabilities not currently recorded in its consolidated financial statements under existing accounting guidance. However, the Company is still evaluating all of its contractual arrangements and the impact that adoption of ASU 2016-02 will have on the Company’s consolidated financial statements. In January 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-04, “Intangibles-Goodwill and Other (Topic 350): Simplifying the Test for Goodwill Impairment” which provides for a one-step quantitative impairment test, whereby a goodwill impairment loss will be measured as the excess of a reporting unit’s carrying amount over its fair value (not to exceed the total goodwill allocated to that reporting unit). It eliminates Step 2 of the current two-step goodwill impairment test, under which a goodwill impairment loss is measured by comparing the implied fair value of a reporting unit’s goodwill with the carrying amount of that goodwill. The standard is effective, on a prospective basis for interim and annual periods beginning after December 15, 2019, with early adoption permitted. The Company adopted this ASU effective November 1, 2018. The adoption of this ASU did not have an impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

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