Aggregate amount of net income allocated to Class H unitholder.

No definition available.

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The limited partners' portion of the aggregate of earnings distributed and earnings allocated to participating securities under the two-class method to the extent that participating securities may share in earnings as if all of the earnings for the period had been distributed.

No definition available.

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The portion of earnings allocable to the general partner over or under the amount reflected in partners capital for purposes of calculating earnings per unit.

No definition available.

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Amount of income (loss) from continuing operations attributable to the General Partner. Also defined as revenue less expenses and taxes from ongoing operations before extraordinary items but after deduction of those portions of income or loss from continuing operations that are allocable to noncontrolling interests.

No definition available.

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Amount of income (loss) from continuing operations available to limited partners. Also defined as limited partners' interest in income from continuing operations less: i) any additional earnings allocated from the General Partner and ii) any distributions on employee unit awards, net of allocation to the General Partner.

No definition available.

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Income from continuing operations, net of noncontrolling interest.

No definition available.

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Amount of income (loss) from continuing operations attributable to limited partners. Also defined as revenue less expenses and taxes from ongoing operations before extraordinary items but after deduction of those portions of income or loss from continuing operations that are allocable to noncontrolling interests.

No definition available.

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Amount of income (loss) from continuing operations attributable to the noncontrolling interest. Also defined as revenue less expenses and taxes from ongoing operations before extraordinary items but after deduction of those portions of income or loss from continuing operations that are allocable to noncontrolling interests.

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-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 810

-SubTopic 10

-Section 45

-Paragraph 19

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This element represents the income or loss from continuing operations attributable to the economic entity which may also be defined as revenue less expenses and taxes from ongoing operations before extraordinary items, and noncontrolling interest.

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Per unit of ownership amount after tax of income (loss) from continuing operations available to limited partnership (LP) unit-holder and units that would have been outstanding assuming the issuance of limited partner units for dilutive potential units outstanding.

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-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 505

-SubTopic 10

-Section S99

-Paragraph 5

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-Name Staff Accounting Bulletin (SAB)

-Number Topic 4

-Section F

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Per unit of ownership amount after tax of income (loss) from continuing operations available to limited partnership (LP) unit-holder in a publicly trade limited partnership (LP) or master limited partnership (MLP).

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Per unit of ownership amount after tax of gain (loss) on disposal of discontinued operations available to limited partnership (LP) unit-holder.

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Per unit of ownership amount after tax of gain (loss) on disposal of discontinued operations available to limited partnership (LP) unit-holder and units that would have been outstanding assuming the issuance of limited partner units for all dilutive potential units outstanding.

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Additional shares included in the calculation of diluted EPS as a result of the potentially dilutive effect of share based payment arrangements using the treasury stock method.

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-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 260

-SubTopic 10

-Section 50

-Paragraph 1

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Weighted average number of limited partnership units outstanding determined by relating the portion of time within a reporting period that general partnership units have been outstanding to the total time in that period.

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Weighted average number of limited partnership units outstanding determined by relating the portion of time within a reporting period that limited partnership units have been outstanding to the total time in that period. Used in the calculation of diluted net income or loss per limited partnership unit.