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Transition Costs Related To Equity-Classified Stock-Based Awards

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Amount of expense for salary, wage, profit sharing; incentive and equity-based compensation; and other employee benefit.

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Cash outflows for payments of postemployment benefits (such as severance pay and health insurance benefits) recognized during the period. Postemployment benefits are benefits paid to employees after employment but before retirement.

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Amount of expenses for special or contractual termination benefits provided to current employees involuntarily terminated under a benefit arrangement associated exit or disposal activities pursuant to an authorized plan. Excludes expenses related to one-time termination benefits, a discontinued operation or an asset retirement obligation.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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General (Details) - USD ($)		3 Months Ended
General (Details) - USD ($)	Aug. 09, 2022	Oct. 31, 2022	Oct. 31, 2021
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Transition costs		$ 9,090,000	$ 0
CEO transition costs related to equity-classified stock-based awards		$ 3,764,000	$ 0
Former CEO
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Transition costs	$ 7,424,000
CEO transition costs related to equity-classified stock-based awards	3,764,000
Severance costs	3,660,000
Cash portion of transition costs	3,660,000
President and CEO
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Cash sign-on bonus	$ 1,000,000