Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss and Total Comprehensive Income (Loss)

12 Months Ended

Oct. 31, 2011

Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss and Total Comprehensive Income (Loss) [Abstract]

Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss and Total Comprehensive Income (Loss)

13. Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss and Total Comprehensive Income (Loss)

Accumulated other comprehensive loss at October 31, 2011 and 2010 was $2.9 million and $0.6 million, respectively, and was primarily related to employee retirement plans.

The table below provides, for each of the fiscal years ended October 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009, the components of total comprehensive income (loss) (amounts in thousands):


	2011			2010			2009
Net income (loss) per consolidated statements of operations	$	39,795		$	(3,374	)	$	(755,825	)
Changes in pension liability, net of tax benefit provision		(1,934	)		1,986			(2,988	)
Change in fair value of available-for-sale securities, net of tax provision		(192	)		74			26

Total comprehensive income (loss)	$	37,669		$	(1,314	)	$	(758,787	)

Tax benefit recognized in total comprehensive loss		—			—		$	1,975

- 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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