Note 13. Geographic Location Information

 

The Company operates in one business segment and develops, manufactures and markets a variety of memory systems for use with servers and workstations which are manufactured by various companies. Revenues, total assets and long lived assets for 2017 and 2016 by geographic region is as follows:

 

    United                    
    States     Europe     Other*     Consolidated  
April 30, 2017                                
Revenues   $ 11,864,000     $ 4,143,000     $ 1,395,000     $ 17,402,000  
Total assets   $ 4,760,000     $ 5,000     $ 0     $ 4,765,000  
Long lived assets   $ 1,490,000     $ 0     $ 0     $ 1,490,000  
                                 
April 30, 2016                                
Revenues   $ 19,713,000     $ 4,405,000     $ 1,064,000     $ 25,182,000  
Total assets   $ 5,743,000     $ 8,000     $ 0     $ 5,751,000  
Long lived assets   $ 1,407,000     $ 0     $ 0     $ 1,407,000  

 

*Principally Asia Pacific Region

About Segments Disclosures

Segment disclosures break a company into its reportable operating units, revealing revenue, profit, and asset allocation that consolidated financial statements obscure. Under ASC 280, segments must match how the chief operating decision maker views the business, providing a window into internal management structure and resource allocation priorities.

Key signals: compare segment margins to identify which units drive profitability and which destroy value. Watch for changes in the number of reportable segments — segment aggregation or disaggregation often coincides with strategic shifts or attempts to obscure declining performance. Intersegment elimination patterns reveal internal pricing practices. The reconciliation between segment totals and consolidated figures exposes corporate overhead allocation and unallocated items. Geographic revenue concentration highlights regulatory and currency exposure. Compare segment-level capital expenditure against segment revenue to assess where management is investing for future growth versus harvesting existing assets.