Finance Receivables And Allowance For Credit Losses (Schedule Of Accretable Difference On Purchased Loans) (Details) (USD $) In Thousands	9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2011
Finance Receivables And Allowance For Credit Losses
Beginning, Balance	$ 0
New loans purchased	25,520
Accretion of income	(10,006)
Reclassifications from (to) nonaccretable difference	18,851
Disposals/other adjustments	(134)
Ending, Balance	$ 34,231

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Finance Receivables And Allowance For Credit Losses [Abstract]

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New Loans Purchased

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The aggregate excess of a loan's cash flows expected to be collected over the investor's initial investment in the loan. This relates to loans with deteriorating of credit quality since origination that were acquired by completion of a transfer for which it is probable, at acquisition, that the investor will be unable to collect all contractually required payments receivable.

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The amount of the loan's contractually required payments receivable in excess of the amount of its cash flows expected to be collected. This relates to loans with deteriorating of credit quality since origination that were acquired by completion of a transfer for which it is probable, at acquisition, that the investor will be unable to collect all contractually required payments receivable.

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The portion of the difference, between total income tax expense or benefit as reported in the Income Statement for the year/accounting period and the expected income tax expense or benefit computed by applying the domestic federal statutory income tax rates to pretax income from continuing operations, that is attributable to all other items not otherwise listed in the existing taxonomy.

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

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 740

-SubTopic 10

-Section 50

-Paragraph 12

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