Price of a single share of a number of saleable stocks paid or offered to be paid in a business combination.

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The increase (decrease) during the reporting period in moneys or securities given as security including, but not limited to, contract, escrow, or earnest money deposits, retainage (if applicable), deposits with clearing organizations and others, collateral, or margin deposits.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 230
-SubTopic 10
-Section 45
-Paragraph 28
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The cash outflow associated with the acquisition of business during the period. The cash portion only of the acquisition price.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 230
-SubTopic 10
-Section 45
-Paragraph 13
-Subparagraph (b)
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Detail information of subsequent event by type. User is expected to use existing line items from elsewhere in the taxonomy as the primary line items for this disclosure, which is further associated with dimension and member elements pertaining to a subsequent event.

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SUBSEQUENT EVENTS (Details) AUD / shares in Units, $ in Millions, AUD in Billions				1 Months Ended	3 Months Ended
	Feb. 01, 2018 USD ($)	Jan. 30, 2018 USD ($)	Jan. 30, 2018 AUD AUD / shares	Dec. 29, 2017 USD ($)	Dec. 29, 2017 USD ($)	Dec. 30, 2016 USD ($)
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Escrow deposit for acquisition of Mobius					$ 2.6	$ 0.0
Sirtex \| Subsequent Event
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Acquisition, share price (in AUD per share) \| AUD / shares			AUD 28
Acquisition price		$ 1,300.0	AUD 1.6
Mobius
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Escrow deposit for acquisition of Mobius				$ 2.6
Mobius \| Subsequent Event
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Acquisition price	$ 24.0