Note 8 - Segment Reporting

3 Months Ended

Jul. 31, 2013

Segment Reporting [Abstract]

Segment Reporting Disclosure [Text Block]

8.           SEGMENT REPORTING

The Company operates and measures the revenues and gross margins of two primary business segments, Custom Electronic Manufacturing Services (“EMS”) and Proprietary products (“Proprietary”).   The EMS business segment consists primarily of custom electronic assemblies, engineering services, custom liquid crystal displays and other interface technologies. The Proprietary business segment is made up of remote monitoring hardware and messaging services, ultra-rugged handheld computers, peripherals and maintenance contract revenues, and RFID solutions.  The following table (in thousands) presents segment revenues and gross margins which the Company evaluates in determining overall operating performance and the allocation of resources.  Other segment information such as components of the Statement of Operations below the gross margin total and assets or other balance sheet information are not presented.  As the Company’s operations of the two segments are so intertwined, the Company’s chief operating decision maker (Elecsys International Corporation’s President) does not review that financial information at a segment reporting level and that information is also not readily available.

	Three Months Ended July 31, 2013
	EMS		Proprietary		Total
Total revenues	$	4,308	$	2,466	$	6,774
Segment gross margin	$	983	$	1,225	$	2,208
Goodwill	$	--	$	1,942	$	1,942

	Three Months Ended July 31, 2012
	EMS		Proprietary		Total
Total revenues	$	2,554	$	1,703	$	4,257
Segment gross margin	$	610	$	779	$	1,389
Goodwill	$	--	$	1,942	$	1,942

The following table reconciles total revenues to the products and services offered by the Company (in thousands).

	Three Months Ended July 31,
	2013		2012
Products and services:
Electronic manufacturing	$	4,247	$	2,483
Remote monitoring solutions		1,526		954
Industrial data communications		243		216
Mobile data acquisition		662		434
Other services:
EMS related services		61		71
Proprietary product related services		35		99
Total sales	$	6,774	$	4,257