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Accrued Expenses
6 Months Ended
Sep. 28, 2012
Accrued Liabilities, Current [Abstract]  
ACCRUED EXPENSES

Accrued expenses from continuing operations as of September 28, 2012 and March 30, 2012 were as follows:

  As of
(in thousands)September 28, 2012 March 30, 2012
Accrued payroll$ 12,204 $ 14,913
Accrued interest  2,212   2,565
Accrued annual incentive compensation  3,145   1,184
Other (a)  18,535   18,774
 Accrued expenses$ 36,096 $ 37,436

  • Amounts within the “Other” category of total accrued expenses were not considered individually significant as of September 28, 2012 and March 30, 2012.

The Company goes to market through strategic businesses that offer products and services to customers within the healthcare industry. The reportable segments are determined based on the factors management utilizes to regularly evaluate the performance of the Company. The reportable segments are managed separately based on the distinct customers and the product and service offerings required by the markets they serve. The Company evaluates the operating performance of its segments based on a number of financial measures, including net sales and income from operations before interest, income taxes and results of discontinued operations.

During the six months ended September 28, 2012, the Company's Board of Directors approved a strategic restructuring plan designed to transform the Company. The restructuring plan includes the sale of two businesses serving skilled nursing facilities within the Extended Care Business and specialty dental practices within the Physician Business. As part of the restructuring plan, the previously reported Physician Business and Extended Care Business segments have been realigned into four strategic business segments including: Physician, Laboratory, Dispensing, and Home Care & Hospice. Each of the segments serve a distinct customer base or provide a distinct product and service offering to the same customer base.

The Company allocates certain components of net sales, cost of goods sold and operating expenses to each of the reportable segments. These allocated components represent specific revenues or costs not specifically identifiable to an individual reportable segment. Management determined the methodology utilized to allocate these items to be reasonable and consistently applied for each period presented, based on inputs and cost drivers common to each reportable segment.

The strategic business segments share healthcare distribution services infrastructure and support costs. The costs of shared healthcare distribution services infrastructure and support are charged to each segment directly, if specifically identifiable, or allocated to each segment based on methodologies reasonably determined by management.

Shared Services includes expenses associated with corporate functions that support the segments through the development of strategic solutions and the delivery of standardized service and transaction processing. Shared Services allocates a portion of its costs to the segments to the extent the segments use the support services provided, based on an estimation of the direct costs attributable to those services. For those operating segments that use shared services, the allocation of shared operating costs is generally proportionate to the revenues of the respective segment.

The following tables present financial information about the business segments: