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Deferred Payments To Acquire Businesses

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Amount of write-down of assets recognized in the income statement. Includes, but is not limited to, losses from tangible assets, intangible assets and goodwill.

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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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Percentage of voting equity interests acquired at the acquisition date in the business combination.

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Price of a single share of a number of saleable stocks paid or offered to be paid in a business combination.

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The cash outflow associated with the acquisition of business during the period. The cash portion only of the acquisition price.

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Number of shares issued which are neither cancelled nor held in the treasury.

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Acquisitions and Divestitures Acquisitions (Details) - USD ($) $ / shares in Units, shares in Millions, $ in Millions	3 Months Ended		12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2015	Sep. 30, 2014	Dec. 31, 2015	Dec. 31, 2014	Dec. 31, 2013
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Asset Impairment Charges			$ 18.9	$ 2.1	$ 72.0
Wincor Nixdorf [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Shares, Outstanding			29.8
Phoenix Interactive Design, Inc [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Payments to Acquire Businesses, Gross	$ 72.9
Deferred Payments To Acquire Businesses	$ 12.6
Business Acquisition, Percentage of Voting Interests Acquired	100.00%
Cryptera AS [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Payments to Acquire Businesses, Gross		$ 13.0
Business Acquisition, Percentage of Voting Interests Acquired		100.00%
Amount of Deferred Payments Related to Acquisition		10.00%
Cash Paid Per Share [Member] \| Wincor Nixdorf [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Business Acquisition, Share Price			$ 38.98
Common Shares Provided Per Share [Member] \| Wincor Nixdorf [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Business Acquisition, Share Price			$ 0.434