ORGANIZATION AND CONSOLIDATION	6 Months Ended
May 01, 2022
ORGANIZATION AND CONSOLIDATION
ORGANIZATION AND CONSOLIDATION	(1) Organization and Consolidation The information in the notes and related commentary are presented in a format which includes data grouped as follows: Consolidated – Represents the consolidation of the equipment operations and financial services. References to “Deere & Company” or “the Company” refer to the entire enterprise. Equipment Operations – Represents the enterprise without financial services (FS), while including the Company’s production and precision agriculture operations (PPA), small agriculture and turf operations (SAT), construction and forestry operations (CF), and other corporate assets, liabilities, revenues, and expenses not reflected within financial services. Financial Services – Represents the Company’s financing operations. Assets managed by financial services, including most financing receivables and equipment on operating leases, continue to be evaluated by market (agriculture and turf or construction and forestry). The Company uses a 52/53 week fiscal year with quarters ending on the last Sunday in the reporting period. The second quarter ends for fiscal year 2022 and 2021 were May 1, 2022 and May 2, 2021, respectively. Both second quarters contained 13 weeks, while both year-to-date periods contained 26 weeks. Unless otherwise stated, references to particular years or quarters refer to the Company’s fiscal years generally ending in October and the associated periods in those fiscal years. Prior to fiscal year 2021, the operating results of the Wirtgen Group (Wirtgen) were incorporated into the Company’s consolidated financial statements using a one-month lag period. The reporting lag was eliminated resulting in one additional month of Wirtgen activity in both the first quarter and the year-to-date period of 2021. The effect was an increase to Net sales of $270 million, which the Company considers immaterial to construction and forestry’s annual net sales. As a result of recent acquisitions (see Note 19), the Company updated the presentation on the consolidated balance sheet to remove the following lines: Receivables from unconsolidated affiliates, Investments in unconsolidated affiliates, and Payables to unconsolidated affiliates. These balances are now immaterial to the Company’s consolidated balance sheet and have been reclassified into Other receivables, Other assets, and Accounts payable and accrued expenses, respectively. The Company consolidates certain variable interest entities (VIEs) related to retail note securitizations (see Note 9).

ORGANIZATION AND CONSOLIDATION

6 Months Ended

May 01, 2022

(1) Organization and Consolidation

The information in the notes and related commentary are presented in a format which includes data grouped as follows:

Consolidated – Represents the consolidation of the equipment operations and financial services. References to “Deere & Company” or “the Company” refer to the entire enterprise.

Equipment Operations – Represents the enterprise without financial services (FS), while including the Company’s production and precision agriculture operations (PPA), small agriculture and turf operations (SAT), construction and forestry operations (CF), and other corporate assets, liabilities, revenues, and expenses not reflected within financial services.

Financial Services – Represents the Company’s financing operations. Assets managed by financial services, including most financing receivables and equipment on operating leases, continue to be evaluated by market (agriculture and turf or construction and forestry).

The Company uses a 52/53 week fiscal year with quarters ending on the last Sunday in the reporting period. The second quarter ends for fiscal year 2022 and 2021 were May 1, 2022 and May 2, 2021, respectively. Both second quarters contained 13 weeks, while both year-to-date periods contained 26 weeks. Unless otherwise stated, references to particular years or quarters refer to the Company’s fiscal years generally ending in October and the associated periods in those fiscal years.

Prior to fiscal year 2021, the operating results of the Wirtgen Group (Wirtgen) were incorporated into the Company’s consolidated financial statements using a one-month lag period. The reporting lag was eliminated resulting in one additional month of Wirtgen activity in both the first quarter and the year-to-date period of 2021. The effect was an increase to Net sales of $270 million, which the Company considers immaterial to construction and forestry’s annual net sales.

As a result of recent acquisitions (see Note 19), the Company updated the presentation on the consolidated balance sheet to remove the following lines: Receivables from unconsolidated affiliates, Investments in unconsolidated affiliates, and Payables to unconsolidated affiliates. These balances are now immaterial to the Company’s consolidated balance sheet and have been reclassified into Other receivables, Other assets, and Accounts payable and accrued expenses, respectively.

The Company consolidates certain variable interest entities (VIEs) related to retail note securitizations (see Note 9).