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Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Number of Measures Used to Determine Share Payout

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Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Share Payout Measures, Adjusted Net Income, Duration of Period

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Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Share Payout Measures, Adjusted Net Income, Number of Periods

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Period over which grantee's right to exercise award under share-based payment arrangement is no longer contingent on satisfaction of service or performance condition, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days. Includes, but is not limited to, combination of market, performance or service condition.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
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-SubTopic 10
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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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