Loans Receivable Held-For-Sale, Reconciliation To Cash Flow, Decrease (Increase) In Valuation Allowance

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Loans Receivable Held-For-Sale, Reconciliation To Cash Flow, Transfers In (Out)

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Loans Receivable Held-For-Sale, Reconciliation To Cash Flow, Write-Offs

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Loans Receivable Held-for-sale, Reconciliation To Cash Flow, Additions To Held-for-sale, Before Allowance

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Loss On Sale Of Unsecured Loans

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Transfer Of Previously Charged-Off Loan Receivables Accounted for As Sales, Cash Proceeds Received for Assets, Amount, During The Period

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Cash Flows between a transferor and a transferee attributable to newly transferred assets related to either a securitization, asset-backed financing arrangement, or similar transfer in which the transferor has continuing involvement with the transferred financial assets underlying the transaction (including, but not limited to, servicing, recourse, and restrictions on transferor's interests in the transferred financial assets).

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Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef
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-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 860
-SubTopic 20
-Section 50
-Paragraph 3
-Subparagraph (d)(1)
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Amount, after allowance for bad debt, of loan receivables held-for-sale that are not part of a disposal group. Excludes loans and leases covered under loss sharing agreements and loans classified as debt securities.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 310
-SubTopic 10
-Section 45
-Paragraph 2
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A roll forward is a reconciliation of a concept from the beginning of a period to the end of a period.

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The cash inflow from loans reinstated and recovered that were previously deemed uncollectible.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/commonPracticeRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 230
-SubTopic 10
-Section 45
-Paragraph 12
-Subparagraph (a)
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The cash inflow from sale proceeds and collection of repayments from borrowers on loans classified as held-for-sale, including proceeds from loans sold through mortgage securitization; includes mortgages and other types of loans.

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-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 230
-SubTopic 10
-Section 45
-Paragraph 21
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=109223946&loc=d3e3461-108585

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-Section 45
-Paragraph 16
-Subparagraph (a)
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Loan Receivables Held for Sale - Activity in the balance of loan receivables held for sale (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands				3 Months Ended		6 Months Ended
	Jun. 27, 2018	May 21, 2018	Jun. 29, 2017	Jun. 30, 2018	Jun. 30, 2017	Jun. 30, 2018	Jun. 30, 2017
Loans Receivable Held-for-sale, Net, Reconciliation to Cash Flow
Beginning balance						$ 73,606	$ 41,268
Additions						43,085	73,235
Proceeds from sales and customer payments						(71,687)	(28,691)
Gain/(loss) on sold loan receivables held for sale						0	(88)
Decrease/(increase) in valuation allowance						(220)	0
Transfers						24	(1,688)
Write offs and other						(1,319)	(1,786)
Ending balance				$ 43,489	$ 82,250	43,489	82,250
Sales of loans	$ 50,614	$ 9,552	$ 17,900	60,166	17,900	60,166	17,900
Recovery payments received				17	$ 104	33	189
Proceeds				5,038		10,171
Loan receivables held for sale
Loans Receivable Held-for-sale, Net, Reconciliation to Cash Flow
Proceeds				$ 17		$ 171	$ 0