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The amount that will be recognized through the income statement (as well as the impact on the other financial statements) as part of highly inflationary accounting.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 830

-SubTopic 30

-Section S99

-Paragraph 1

-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6897108&loc=SL6897125-166521

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