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Segment Information

6 Months Ended

Oct. 31, 2017

Segment Reporting [Abstract]

Segment Information

F. Segment Information

The Company’s operations are classified into two business segments: Domestic and International. The Domestic business segment principally designs, manufactures, and installs scientific and technical furniture, including steel and wood laboratory cabinetry, fume hoods, laminate casework, flexible systems, worksurfaces, workstations, workbenches, and computer enclosures. The International business segment, which consists of the Company’s foreign subsidiaries, provides products and services, including facility design, detailed engineering, construction, and project management from the planning stage through testing and commissioning of laboratories. Intersegment transactions are recorded at normal profit margins. All intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated. Certain corporate expenses shown below have not been allocated to the business segments.

The following table provides financial information by business segments for the three and six months ended October 31, 2017 and 2016 (in thousands):

		Domestic Operations				International Operations				Corporate / Eliminations				Total
Three months ended October 31, 2017
Revenues from external customers		$	28,540			$	12,931			$	—			$	41,471
Intersegment revenues			5,068				1,062				(6,130	)			—
Earnings (loss) before income taxes			2,945				1,286				(1,488	)			2,743
Three months ended October 31, 2016
Revenues from external customers		$	28,211			$	8,118			$	—			$	36,329
Intersegment revenues			2,571				1,263				(3,834	)			—
Earnings (loss) before income taxes			2,444				1,250				(1,365	)			2,329

		Domestic Operations				International Operations				Corporate/ Eliminations				Total
Six months ended October 31, 2017
Revenues from external customers		$	50,686			$	24,666			$	—			$	75,352
Intersegment revenues			9,153				1,930				(11,083	)			—
Earnings (loss) before income taxes			4,761				2,656				(2,877	)			4,540
Six months ended October 31, 2016
Revenues from external customers		$	57,848			$	15,760			$	—			$	73,608
Intersegment revenues			3,437				2,398				(5,835	)			—
Earnings (loss) before income taxes			5,017				2,067				(2,655	)			4,429

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The entire disclosure for reporting segments including data and tables. Reportable segments include those that meet any of the following quantitative thresholds a) it's reported revenue, including sales to external customers and intersegment sales or transfers is 10 percent or more of the combined revenue, internal and external, of all operating segments b) the absolute amount of its reported profit or loss is 10 percent or more of the greater, in absolute amount of 1) the combined reported profit of all operating segments that did not report a loss or 2) the combined reported loss of all operating segments that did report a loss c) its assets are 10 percent or more of the combined assets of all operating segments.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 280
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2134510

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