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Represents the increase in annual rental expense.

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Represents the term of lease renewal options.

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The cash outflow for leases.

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Carrying value as of the balance sheet date of obligations incurred through that date and payable for contractual rent under lease arrangements.

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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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Interest rate used to find the present value of an amount to be paid or received in the future as an input to measure fair value. For example, but not limited to, weighted average cost of capital (WACC), cost of capital, cost of equity and cost of debt.

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The amount, during the lease term, of each minimum [capital] lease payment allocated to interest expense so as to produce a constant periodic rate of interest on the remaining balance of the capital lease obligation.

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