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Accrued Liabilities (Tables)

6 Months Ended

Apr. 30, 2019

Accrued Liabilities Current [Abstract]

Accrued liabilities as of April 30, 2019 and October 31, 2018 consisted of the following:

	April 30,		October 31,
	2019		2018
Accrued payroll and employee benefits	$	2,599	$	2,550
Accrued product warranty cost ⁽¹⁾		65		147
Accrued service agreement costs⁽²⁾		4,267		2,029
Accrued legal, taxes, professional and other		4,023		2,906
Accrued liabilities	$	10,954	$	7,632

(1)	Activity in the accrued product warranty costs for the six months ended April 30, 2019 represents reductions related to actual warranty spend of $0.08 million as contracts progress through the warranty period or are beyond the warranty period.

(2)

The loss accruals on service contracts were $0.9 million as of October 31, 2018 which increased to $1.9 million as of April 30, 2019. The accruals for performance guarantees increased from $1.1 million as of October 31, 2018 to $2.4 million as of April 30, 2019. The changes in the accruals are a result of the impact of the adoption of Topic 606.