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Property, Plant, and Equipment
3 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2019
Property, Plant, and Equipment  
Property, Plant and Equipment Note 12. Property, plant, and equipment

December 31,

September 30,

2019

2019

Land and land improvements

$

89,483 

$

94,976 

Buildings and building improvements

575,988 

587,541 

Leasehold improvements

17,810 

17,446 

Machinery and production equipment

733,995 

731,159 

Computer equipment and software

123,187 

124,201 

Office furniture and equipment

40,002 

39,934 

Other

19,162 

19,346 

Construction in progress

49,228 

57,624 

1,648,855 

1,672,227 

Less accumulated depreciation

(615,277)

(613,452)

Property, plant, and equipment, net

$

1,033,578 

$

1,058,775 

In the second quarter of fiscal year 2018, the Company announced its decision to relocate its Duarte, California operations to the Company’s newly renovated Drake Campus in Fort Collins, Colorado, and in fiscal year 2019, Woodward finalized the relocation. On December 30, 2019 the Company closed on the sale of one of two parcels of real property at Woodward’s former Duarte operations and recorded a pre-tax gain on sale of assets of $13,522 (see Note 18, Other (income) expense, net). The carrying value of the remaining parcel of Duarte real property is $2,520 as of December 31, 2019, all of which the Company has identified as an asset held for sale and is included in “Land and land improvements”. The asset held for sale is included in unallocated corporate property, plant, and equipment. Based on an existing real property purchase agreement and current market conditions, the Company expects to record an additional gain on the subsequent sale of the remaining parcel of real property, which is expected to close by June 30, 2020. The Company assessed whether the decision to relocate from its Duarte facility could indicate a potential impairment of the assets at the Duarte facility and concluded that the assets were not impaired as of December 31, 2019.

In the first quarter of fiscal year 2020, Woodward determined that the approved plan to divest of the renewable power systems portfolio (see Note 10, Impairment of assets held for sale) represented a triggering event requiring the long-lived assets attributable to the renewable power systems portfolio be assessed for impairment. Given the current facts and circumstances, Woodward determined that the remaining value of the plant, property and equipment of the renewable power systems portfolio was not recoverable and a $13,158 non-cash impairment charge was recorded in the first quarter of fiscal year 2020.

For the three-months ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, Woodward had depreciation expense as follows:

Three-Months Ended

December 31,

2019

2018

Depreciation expense

$

22,546 

$

21,169 

For the three-months ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, Woodward capitalized interest that would have otherwise been included in interest expense of the following:

Three-Months Ended

December 31,

2019

2018

Capitalized interest

$

34 

$

227