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2. Basis of Presentation and Significant Accounting Policies: Cost of Revenues (Policies)
9 Months Ended
Jul. 31, 2022
Policies  
Cost of Revenues

Cost of Revenues

 

Costs associated with subscription and maintenance revenues consist primarily of communication costs, data feeds costs, compensation and benefit costs and amortization of previously capitalized software development costs (referred to as “Capitalized Assets”). Cost of revenues in each reporting period was impacted by previously capitalized costs associated with software development and data center projects. In prior periods, the labor and fringe benefit costs of the Company employees involved in creating Capitalized Assets were capitalized, rather than expensed, and amortized over three years, as determined by their projected useful life. The Company did not capitalize any software development costs, as well as network and data center costs, subsequent to January 31, 2020. Given business conditions in the aviation industry surrounding the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, the Company’s software efforts were concentrated in the areas of maintenance of existing products.

 

PASSUR’s services are powered by a combination of FAA data plus commercial ADS-B aggregator feeds and other data feeds available to the Company, which provide a more cost-effective solution and allow us to focus more on value-added analytics, and less on sensor technology.

 

Additionally, due to the financial and economic hardships that have been experienced by the Company’s customers and air transportation support vendors in the ongoing COVID-19 environment (described in “3. Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic”, below), there has been a significant amount of uncertainty surrounding the ability of our customers to either renew and/or maintain their current levels of committed contracts with the Company. As a result of the industry changes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Company anticipates that its level of Capitalized Assets, including related amortization of such costs, will decrease in the future, as the Company’s technological efforts are focused more on maintenance of existing products.