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Amount before accumulated depreciation of building structures held for productive use under capital lease obligations including addition, improvement, or renovation to the structure, including, but not limited to, interior masonry, interior flooring, electrical, and plumbing.

No definition available.

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Gross amount, as of the balance sheet date, of real estate land held for productive use under capital lease obligations. This excludes land held for sale and alterations to land which improves its potential for use. Generally consisting of items having limited lives, such as walkways, driveways, fences, and parking lots, such improvements are depreciated over the useful lives of the subject assets.

No definition available.

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Gross amount, as of the balance sheet date, of land improvements held for productive use under capital lease obligations. This excludes land held for sale and alterations to land which improves its potential for use. Generally consisting of items having limited lives, such as walkways, driveways, fences, and parking lots, such improvements are depreciated over the useful lives of the subject assets.

No definition available.

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Gross amount, as of the balance sheet date, of long-lived, depreciable assets used in the production process to produce goods and services under capital lease obligations.

No definition available.

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Amount, net of accumulated depreciation, depletion and amortization, of long-lived physical assets under capital lease obligations used in the normal conduct of business and not intended for resale. Examples include, but are not limited to, land, buildings, machinery and equipment, office equipment, furniture and fixtures, and computer equipment.

No definition available.

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Amount before accumulated depreciation of leased physical assets used in the normal conduct of business to produce goods and services.

Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/otherTransitionRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 840
-SubTopic 30
-Section 45
-Paragraph 1
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=121569800&loc=d3e45014-112735

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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.

No definition available.