SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2015

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,
	2015		2014		2013
Total revenues
United States	$	12,097,633	$	11,800,140	$	11,140,163
Other locations	1,378,451		1,669,927		1,611,913
Total revenues	$	13,476,084	$	13,470,067	$	12,752,076

	December 31,
	2015		2014		2013
Long-lived assets
United States	$	320,445	$	257,587	$	284,693
Other locations	24,878		26,254		24,567
Total long-lived assets	$	345,323	$	283,841	$	309,260

Schedule of Depreciation Expense

We recognized the following depreciation expense (in thousands):

2015	$	32,412
2014	29,340
2013	27,757

Property, Plant and Equipment

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

	2015			2014
Furniture, fixtures, and equipment	$	200,215		$	180,233
Buildings	110,056			79,981
Corporate aircraft	11,334			11,334
Leasehold improvements	28,178			25,545
Land	23,759			14,983
Construction in progress	5,597			1,612
Less accumulated depreciation	(188,265		)	(161,217		)
Net property and equipment	$	190,874		$	152,471

Schedule of Amortization Expense of Software

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

2015	$	9,624
2014	8,921
2013	8,759

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):

	2015			2014
Purchased software	$	23,569		$	21,872
Internally developed software	40,796			27,429
Less accumulated amortization	(42,930		)	(35,369		)
Net software	$	21,435		$	13,932