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Amount of lessee's undiscounted obligation for lease payments for operating and finance leases, due in fourth fiscal year following latest fiscal year.

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Amount of lessee's undiscounted obligation for lease payments for operating and finance leases, due in latest fiscal year.

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Amount of lessee's undiscounted obligation for lease payments for operating and finance leases, due in third fiscal year following latest fiscal year.

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Amount of lessee's undiscounted obligation for lease payments for operating and finance leases, due in second fiscal year following latest fiscal year.

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Amount of lessee's undiscounted obligation for lease payments in excess of discounted obligation for lease payments for operating and finance leases.

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Present value of lessee's discounted obligation for lease payments from operating and finance leases.

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Present value of lessee's discounted obligation for lease payments from finance lease.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 842
-SubTopic 20
-Section 50
-Paragraph 6
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=123408670&loc=SL77918701-209980

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Amount of lessee's undiscounted obligation for lease payments for finance lease.

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Amount of lessee's undiscounted obligation for lease payment for finance lease to be paid after fifth fiscal year following current fiscal year. Excludes interim and annual periods when interim periods are reported from current statement of financial position date (rolling approach).

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Amount of lessee's undiscounted obligation for lease payment for finance lease to be paid in next fiscal year following current fiscal year. Excludes interim and annual periods when interim periods are reported from current statement of financial position date (rolling approach).

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Amount of lessee's undiscounted obligation for lease payment for operating lease.

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Amount of lessee's undiscounted obligation for lease payment for operating lease due after fifth fiscal year following current fiscal year. Excludes interim and annual periods when interim periods are reported from current statement of financial position date (rolling approach).

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
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