Note 11 - Fair Value Measurements

3 Months Ended

Mar. 01, 2025

Notes to Financial Statements

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Note 11: Fair Value Measurements

Overview

Estimates of fair value for financial assets and liabilities are based on the framework established in the accounting guidance for fair value measurements. The framework defines fair value, provides guidance for measuring fair value and requires certain disclosures. The framework discusses valuation techniques, such as the market approach (comparable market prices), the income approach (present value of future income or cash flow) and the cost approach (cost to replace the service capacity of an asset or replacement cost). The framework utilizes a fair value hierarchy that prioritizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to measure fair value into three broad levels. The following is a brief description of those three levels:

● Level 1: Observable inputs such as quoted prices (unadjusted) in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.

● Level 2: Inputs other than quoted prices that are observable for the asset or liability, either directly or indirectly. These include quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities in active markets and quoted prices for identical or similar assets or liabilities in markets that are not active.

● Level 3: Unobservable inputs that reflect management’s assumptions, and include situations where there is little, if any, market activity for the asset or liability.

Balances Measured at Fair Value on a Recurring Basis

The following table presents information about our financial assets and liabilities that are measured at fair value on a recurring basis as of March 1, 2025 and November 30, 2024, and indicates the fair value hierarchy of the valuation techniques utilized to determine such fair value.

	March 1,		Fair Value Measurements Using:
Description	2025		Level 1		Level 2		Level 3
Assets:
Marketable securities	$	8,164	$	8,164	$	-	$	-
Foreign exchange contract assets		2,294		-		2,294		-
Interest rate swaps, cash flow hedge assets		38		-		38		-
Liabilities:
Foreign exchange contract liabilities	$	2,254	$	-		2,254	$	-
Interest rate swaps, cash flow hedge liabilities		639				639
Interest rate swaps, fair value hedge liabilities		30,396		-		30,396		-
Net investment hedge liabilities		40,299		-		40,299		-

	November 30,		Fair Value Measurements Using:
Description	2024		Level 1		Level 2		Level 3
Assets:
Marketable securities	$	8,584	$	8,584	$	-	$	-
Foreign exchange contract assets		2,147		-		2,147		-
Interest rate swaps, cash flow hedge assets		1,781		-		1,781		-
Liabilities:
Foreign exchange contract liabilities	$	7,074	$	-	$	7,074	$	-
Interest rate swaps, cash flow hedge liabilities		265		-		265
Interest rate swaps, fair value hedge liabilities		32,775		-		32,775
Net investment hedge liabilities		51,871		-		51,871		-

Balances Measured at Fair Value on a Nonrecurring Basis

We measure certain assets and liabilities at fair value on a nonrecurring basis. These assets include intangible assets acquired in an acquisition. The identified intangible assets of customer relationships, technology and tradenames acquired in connection with our acquisitions were measured using unobservable (Level 3) inputs. The fair value of the intangible assets was calculated using either the income or cost approach. Significant inputs include estimated revenue growth rates, gross margins, operating expenses, attrition rate, royalty rate and discount rate.  

See Note 2 for further discussion regarding our acquisitions.

Balances Disclosed at Fair Value

Long-term debt had an estimated fair value of $1,974,391 and $2,015,468 as of March 1, 2025 and November 30, 2024, respectively. The fair value of long-term debt is based on quoted market prices for the same or similar issues or on the current rates offered for debt of similar maturities. The estimated fair value of these long-term obligations is not necessarily indicative of the amount that would be realized in a current market exchange.