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The percentage of ownership of common stock or equity participation in the investee accounted for under the equity method of accounting.

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Number of operating segments. An operating segment is a component of an enterprise: (a) that engages in business activities from which it may earn revenues and incur expenses (including revenues and expenses relating to transactions with other components of the same enterprise), (b) whose operating results are regularly reviewed by the enterprise's chief operating decision maker to make decisions about resources to be allocated to the segment and assess its performance, and (c) for which discrete financial information is available. An operating segment may engage in business activities for which it has yet to earn revenues, for example, start-up operations may be operating segments before earning revenues.

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The number of states the entity operates in as of the balance sheet date.

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Percentage of subsidiary's or equity investee's stock owned by parent company before stock transaction.

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Increase In Working Capital Due To Current Assets Held-for-Sale

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Increase In Working Capital Due To Restricted Escrow Account

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Number of Suppliers

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Sale of Stock, Percentage of Indirect Ownership before Transaction

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Working Capital

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