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Amortized cost of financing receivable and net investment in lease originated more than five years prior to current fiscal year.

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Amortized cost of financing receivable and net investment in lease originated four years prior to current fiscal year.

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Amortized cost of financing receivable and net investment in lease originated in current fiscal year.

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Amortized cost of financing receivable and net investment in lease originated in fiscal year prior to current fiscal year.

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Amortized cost of financing receivable and net investment in lease originated three years prior to current fiscal year.

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Amortized cost of financing receivable and net investment in lease originated two years prior to current fiscal year.

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Amortized cost, before allowance for credit loss, of financing receivable and net investment in lease.

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Amortized cost of financing receivable that can be withdrawn, repaid, and redrawn.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 326
-SubTopic 20
-Section 50
-Paragraph 6
-URI https://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=124255953&loc=SL82919232-210447

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-Name Accounting Standards Codification
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