Share Based Compensation Arrangement By Share Based Payment Award, Compensation Cost Recognition Period

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Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Shares Awarded As a Percentage of Granted

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Period which an employee's right to exercise an award is no longer contingent on satisfaction of either a service condition, market condition or a performance condition, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 718
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
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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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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies - Share-based Compensation (Details)	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2019	Dec. 31, 2015
Performance shares
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Shares awarded as a percentage of granted		200.00%
Performance Share Units with Total Shareholder Return Conditions
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Vesting period	3 years
Minimum
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Compensation cost recognition period	3 years
Minimum \| Performance shares
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Shares awarded as a percentage of granted	0.00%
Vesting period	3 years
Maximum
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Compensation cost recognition period	5 years
Maximum \| Performance shares
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Shares awarded as a percentage of granted	200.00%
Vesting period	5 years