SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Schedule Of Revenues From External Customers And Long Lived Assets By Geographical Areas Table

The following table presents our total revenues (based on location of the customer) and long-lived assets (including intangible and other assets) by geographic regions (in thousands):

	For the year ended December 31,
	2012		2011		2010
Total revenues
United States	$	10,183,596	$	9,488,165	$	8,298,324
Other locations	1,175,517		848,181		975,981
Total revenues	$	11,359,113	$	10,336,346	$	9,274,305

	December 31,
	2012		2011		2010
Long-lived assets
United States	$	281,729	$	156,471	$	135,312
Other locations	27,991		10,337		11,667
Total long-lived assets	$	309,720	$	166,808	$	146,979

Schedule of Depreciation Expense

We recognized the following depreciation expense (in thousands):

2012	$	24,254
2011	23,410
2010	20,393

Property, Plant and Equipment

A summary of our property and equipment as of December 31 is as follows (in thousands):

	2012			2011
Furniture, fixtures, and equipment	$	145,746		$	115,751
Buildings	64,452			55,682
Corporate aircraft	11,334			11,334
Leasehold improvements	22,663			17,781
Land	15,004			14,841
Construction in progress	5,808			4,684
Less accumulated depreciation	(115,156		)	(93,243		)
Net property and equipment	$	149,851		$	126,830

Schedule of Amortization Expense of Software

We recognized the following amortization expense of purchased and internally developed software (in thousands):

2012	$	7,528
2011	5,180
2010	4,047

Software and Software Development Costs

Schedule of Other Assets, Noncurrent

A summary of our purchased and internally developed software as of December 31 is as follows (in thousands):

	2012			2011
Purchased software	$	15,524		$	14,111
Internally developed software	20,029			28,140
Less accumulated amortization	(20,744		)	(17,392		)
Net software	$	14,809		$	24,859