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Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Oct. 31, 2012

Other Comprehensive Income (Loss), Tax [Abstract]

Composition Of Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)

The following table provides the changes in the composition of total Walmart accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) for the nine months ended October 31, 2012:



(Amounts in millions)	Currency Translation and Other			Derivative Instruments			Minimum Pension Liability			Total
Balances as of February 1, 2012	$	(806	)	$	(7	)	$	(597	)	$	(1,410	)
Other comprehensive income (loss)	980			(135		)	3			848
Balances as of October 31, 2012	$	174		$	(142	)	$	(594	)	$	(562	)

- Definition

Tabular disclosure of components of comprehensive income (loss) including, but not limited to: (a) foreign currency translation adjustments; (b) gains (losses) on foreign currency transactions that are designated as, and are effective as, economic hedges of a net investment in a foreign entity; (c) gains (losses) on intercompany foreign currency transactions that are of a long-term-investment nature, when the entities to the transaction are consolidated, combined, or accounted for by the equity method in the reporting enterprise's financial statements; (d) change in the market value of a futures contract that qualifies as a hedge of an asset reported at fair value; (e) unrealized holding gains (losses) on available-for-sale securities and that resulting from transfers of debt securities from the held-to-maturity category to the available-for-sale category; (f) a net loss recognized as an additional pension liability not yet recognized as net periodic pension cost; and (g) the net gain (loss) and net prior service cost or credit for pension plans and other postretirement benefit plans.

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