Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss and Total Comprehensive Loss

6 Months Ended

Apr. 30, 2011

Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss and Total Comprehensive Loss [Abstract]

Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss and Total Comprehensive Loss

7. Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss and Total Comprehensive Loss

Accumulated other comprehensive loss at April 30, 2011 and October 31, 2010 was primarily related to employee retirement plans.

The components of other comprehensive loss in the six-month and three-month periods ended April 30, 2011 and 2010 were as follows (amounts in thousands):


	Six months ended April 30,						Three months ended April 30,
	2011			2010			2011			2010
Net loss as reported	$	(17,356	)	$	(81,155	)	$	(20,773	)	$	(40,401	)
Changes in pension liability, net of tax provision		347			(283	)		173			(184	)
Change in fair value of available-for-sale securities		(5	)		63			59			(78	)

Comprehensive loss	$	(17,014	)	$	(81,375	)	$	(20,541	)	$	(40,663	)

Tax benefit recognized in total comprehensive loss		—		$	146			—		$	175

- Definition

This label may include the following: 1) the amount of income tax expense or benefit allocated to each component of other comprehensive income, including reclassification adjustments, 2) the reclassification adjustments for each classification of other comprehensive income and 3) the ending accumulated balances for each component of comprehensive income. Components of comprehensive income include: (1) foreign currency translation adjustments; (2) gains and losses on foreign currency transactions that are designated as, and are effective as, economic hedges of a net investment in a foreign entity; (3) gains and losses on intercompany foreign currency transactions that are of a long-term-investment nature, when the entities to the transaction are consolidated, combined, or accounted for by the equity method in the reporting enterprise's financial statements; (4) change in the market value of a futures contract that qualifies as a hedge of an asset reported at fair value; (5) unrealized holding gains and losses on available-for-sale securities and that resulting from transfers of debt securities from the held-to-maturity category to the available-for-sale category; (6) a net loss recognized as an additional pension liability not yet recognized as net periodic pension cost; and (7) the net gain or loss and net prior service cost or credit for pension plans and other postretirement benefit plans.

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