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Disposal Group, Not Discontinued Operation, Change In Amount Of Contingent Consideration, Expense

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Disposal Group, Not Discontinued Operation, Contingent Consideration

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Disposal Group, Not Discontinued Operation, Contingent Consideration, Measurement Period

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Amount of gain (loss) recognized in income from asset measured at fair value on recurring basis using unobservable input (level 3).

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 820
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (c)(1)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=117815213&loc=d3e19207-110258

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FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENTS - Narrative (Details) - USD ($)		9 Months Ended
FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENTS - Narrative (Details) - USD ($)	Sep. 14, 2018	Dec. 31, 2019	Mar. 31, 2019
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Change in fair value contingent consideration in other expense		$ 500,000
HNT tools business \| Disposed of by Sale
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Contingent consideration related to the divestiture, measurement period	2 years
Change in fair value contingent consideration in other expense		500,000
Disposal group, not discontinued operation, change in amount of contingent consideration, asset		200,000	$ 800,000
Contingent consideration, change in fair value of contingent consideration		$ 24,000
HNT tools business \| Disposed of by Sale \| Maximum
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Contingent consideration related to the divestiture	$ 4,000,000.0