Discontinued Operations, Transaction And Separation Costs

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Disposal Group, Including Discontinued Operation, Administrative And Operational Service Period

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Disposal Group, Including Discontinued Operation, Income From Transition Services Agreement

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Disposal Group, Including Discontinued Operation, Net Working Capital Settlement

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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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This element represents the cash inflow during the period from the sale of a component of the entity.

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Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 230
-SubTopic 10
-Section 45
-Paragraph 12
-Subparagraph (b)
-URI https://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=126954810&loc=d3e3179-108585

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Discontinued Operations - Narrative (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions		3 Months Ended	9 Months Ended
	Feb. 01, 2022	Sep. 30, 2022	Sep. 30, 2022	Sep. 30, 2021
Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Additional Disclosures by Disposal Groups, Including Discontinued Operations [Line Items]
Total net cash consideration			$ 332.8	$ 8.5
Discontinued Operations, Disposed of by Sale \| Commercial and Industrial Lighting business
Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Additional Disclosures by Disposal Groups, Including Discontinued Operations [Line Items]
Total net cash consideration	$ 332.8
Administrative and operational services for a period (in months)	12 months
Income from service		$ 3.2	10.8
Transaction and separation costs, net of tax		$ 3.0	9.7
Net working capital settlement			$ 15.8