Supplemental Cash Flow Information - Notes to Financial Statements	12 Months Ended
Feb. 01, 2020
Supplemental Cash Flow Information Abstract Cato [Abstract]
Supplemental Cash Flow Information	Supplemental Cash Flow Information: Income tax payments, net of refunds received, for the fiscal years ended February 1, 2020, February 2, 2019 and February 3, 2018 were a payment of $4,681,000, a refund of $407,000 and a payment of $4,356,000, respectively.

The entire disclosure for supplemental cash flow activities, including cash, noncash, and part noncash transactions, for the period. Noncash is defined as information about all investing and financing activities of an enterprise during a period that affect recognized assets or liabilities but that do not result in cash receipts or cash payments in the period. "Part noncash" refers to that portion of the transaction not resulting in cash receipts or cash payments in the period.

Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 230
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2134446

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