Accrued Liabilities

12 Months Ended

Oct. 31, 2023

Accrued Liabilities

Accrued Liabilities

Note 9. Accrued Liabilities

Accrued liabilities as of October 31, 2023 and 2022 consisted of the following (in thousands):

	October 31,		October 31,
	2023		2022
Accrued payroll and employee benefits (1)	$	7,752	$	8,534
Consideration payable to a customer (2)		3,958		—
Accrued service agreement and PPA costs (3)		10,742		11,340
Accrued legal, taxes, professional and other		3,861		7,541
Accrued liabilities	$	26,313	$	27,415

(1) The balance in this account represents accrued payroll, payroll taxes and accrued bonus for both periods.  The decrease in the account balance relates to a decrease in accrued bonus as of October 31, 2023.

(2) The balance represents the net amount due to Toyota as an accrued liability which will be reduced over time based on the performance under the terms of the Toyota HPPA.

(3) Accrued service agreement costs include loss accruals on service contracts of $9.5 million as of October 31, 2023, which increased from $7.3 million as of October 31, 2022. The increase is the result of changes in estimates regarding timing of future module exchanges and future module replacement costs. The accruals for performance guarantees on service agreements and PPAs decreased from $4.1 million as of October 31, 2022 to $1.2 million as of October 31, 2023.