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Note 11 - Business and Credit Concentrations, Major Customers and Geographic Information | 12 Months Ended
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Oct. 31, 2015
Notes to Financial Statements |
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(11) | Business and Credit Concentrations, Major Customers and Geographic Information
The Company provides credit, in the normal course of business, to various commercial enterprises, governmental entities and not-for-profit organizations. Concentration of credit risk with respect to trade receivables is limited due to the Company’s large number of customers. The Company also manages exposure to credit risk through credit approvals, credit limits and monitoring procedures. Management believes that credit risks as of October 31, 2015 and 2014 have been adequately provided for in the consolidated financial statements. For the year ended October 31, 2015, 13.6% and 10.8%, or approximately $10.0 million and $8.0 million, of consolidated net sales were attributable to two customers. No other customer accounted for more than 10% of consolidated net sales for the year ended October 31, 2015. As of October 31, 2015, no single customer had an outstanding balance payable to the Company in excess of 5% of total consolidated shareholders’ equity. For the year ended October 31, 2014, 16.8%, or approximately $14.0 million of consolidated net sales were attributable to one customer. No other customer accounted for more than 10% of consolidated net sales for the year ended October 31, 2014. As of October 31, 2014, one customer had an outstanding balance payable to the Company totaling 13.9% of total consolidated shareholders’ equity. No other customer had an outstanding balance payable to the Company in excess of 5% of total consolidated shareholders’ equity. For the year ended October 31, 2013, no single customer accounted for more than 10% of consolidated net sales. For the years ended October 31, 2015, 2014 and 2013, approximately 78%, 79% and 70%, respectively, of net sales were from customers in the United States, while approximately 22%, 21% and 30%, respectively, were from customers outside of the United States. Net sales attributable to the United States and all other countries in total for the years ended October 31, 2015, 2014 and 2013 were as follows:
|  | Years ended October 31, |
|  | 2015 |  |  | 2014 |  |  | 2013 |
United States |  | $ | 57,402,020 |  |  | $ | 65,457,787 |  |  | $ | 52,931,288 |
Outside the United States |  |  | 16,166,718 |  |  |  | 17,519,945 |  |  |  | 22,334,750 |
Total net sales |  | $ | 73,568,738 |  |  | $ | 82,977,732 |  |  | $ | 75,266,038 |
No individual country outside of the United States accounted for more than 10% of total net sales in fiscal years 2015, 2014 or 2013. The Company has a single reportable segment for purposes of segment reporting, exclusive of Centric Solutions. For the years ended October 31, 2015, 2014 and 2013, Centric Solutions generated revenues, net of intercompany sales, totaling approximately $1.5 million, $1.4 million and $1.5 million, respectively. For the years ended October 31, 2015, 2014 and 2013, Centric Solutions incurred operating losses of approximately $175,000, $256,000 and $124,000, respectively. Total assets of Centric Solutions of approximately $181,000 and $220,000 (net of intercompany amounts) are included in the total consolidated assets of the Company as of October 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively.

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- Definition The entire disclosure for any concentrations existing at the date of the financial statements that make an entity vulnerable to a reasonably possible, near-term, severe impact. This disclosure informs financial statement users about the general nature of the risk associated with the concentration, and may indicate the percentage of concentration risk as of the balance sheet date. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 275 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 16 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=51801978&loc=d3e6327-108592 Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 825 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 20 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=49121117&loc=d3e13531-108611 Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 275 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 20 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=51801978&loc=d3e6404-108592 Reference 4: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 275 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 21 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=51801978&loc=d3e6442-108592 Reference 5: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 275 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 18 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=51801978&loc=d3e6351-108592 Reference 6: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 825 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 21 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=49121117&loc=d3e13537-108611 + Details
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