SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2014

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,
	2014		2013		2012
Total revenues
United States	$	11,800,140	$	11,140,163	$	10,183,596
Other locations	1,669,927		1,611,913		1,175,517
Total revenues	$	13,470,067	$	12,752,076	$	11,359,113

	December 31,
	2014		2013		2012
Long-lived assets
United States	$	257,587	$	284,693	$	281,729
Other locations	26,254		24,567		27,991
Total long-lived assets	$	283,841	$	309,260	$	309,720

Schedule of Depreciation Expense

We recognized the following depreciation expense (in thousands):

2014	$	29,340
2013	27,757
2012	24,254

Property, Plant and Equipment

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

	2014			2013
Furniture, fixtures, and equipment	$	180,233		$	168,354
Buildings	79,981			64,639
Corporate aircraft	11,334			11,334
Leasehold improvements	25,545			24,489
Land	14,983			15,008
Construction in progress	1,612			16,971
Less accumulated depreciation	(161,217		)	(140,092		)
Net property and equipment	$	152,471		$	160,703

Schedule of Amortization Expense of Software

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

2014	$	8,921
2013	8,759
2012	7,528

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):

	2014			2013
Purchased software	$	21,872		$	20,433
Internally developed software	27,429			24,358
Less accumulated amortization	(35,369		)	(29,802		)
Net software	$	13,932		$	14,989