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Represents the additional extension period for each committed purchasers commitment.

No definition available.

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Represents the cash collections from customers on receivables previously sold.

No definition available.

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Represents the amount of changes in the fair value of the deferred purchase price.

No definition available.

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Represents the payment term for receivables.

No definition available.

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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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This includes only the derecognized portion of the total principal amount of financial assets which have been either securitized, used in an asset-backed financing arrangement, or similar transfers which are accounted for as sales and in which the transferor has continuing involvement with the assets underlying the transaction (including, but not limited to, servicing, recourse, and restrictions on transferor's interests in transferred financial assets).

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The transferor's maximum amount of exposure to loss as a result of its continuing involvement in transferred financial assets.

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Reflects, by transferred financial asset type, the amount of sales proceeds in excess of or deficient from the sum of the carrying amounts of transferred financial assets plus transaction costs, including those transactions in which the seller/transferor has continuing involvement with the financial assets that have been transferred.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Statement of Financial Accounting Standard (FAS)

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