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SEGMENT INFORMATION | 9 Months Ended
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Segment Reporting [Abstract] |
SEGMENT INFORMATION | SEGMENT INFORMATION Organizational Realignment. In January 2015, the personal solutions business in the United Kingdom was consolidated into the North America Personal Solutions segment. The change was driven by an enterprise wide strategy to maximize the penetration of our products and services in our targeted markets. We determined that market focus and operating efficiency could be further improved by reorganizing and consolidating the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom Personal Solutions operating activities into one segment called Personal Solutions. As a result, we modified our segment reporting effective in the first quarter of 2015. Our financial results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2014, have been recast below to reflect our new organizational structure. Reportable Segments. We manage our business and report our financial results through the following four reportable segments, which are the same as our operating segments: - U.S. Information Solutions ("USIS") - International - Workforce Solutions - Personal Solutions The accounting policies of the reportable segments are the same as those described in our summary of significant accounting policies in Note 1 of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in our 2014 Form 10-K. We evaluate the performance of these reportable segments based on their operating revenues, operating income and operating margins, excluding unusual or infrequent items, if any. Inter-segment sales and transfers are not material for all periods presented. The measurement criteria for segment profit or loss and segment assets are substantially the same for each reportable segment. All transactions between segments are accounted for at cost, and no timing differences occur between segments. A summary of segment products and services is as follows: U.S. Information Solutions. This segment includes consumer and commercial information services (such as credit information and credit scoring, credit modeling services and portfolio analytics (decisioning tools), which are derived from our databases of business credit and financial information, locate services, fraud detection and prevention services, identity verification services and other consulting services); mortgage loan origination information; financial marketing services; and identity management. International. This segment includes information services products, which includes consumer and commercial services (such as credit and financial information, credit scoring and credit modeling services), credit and other marketing products and services. In Europe and Latin America, we also provide information, technology and services to support debt collections and recovery management. Workforce Solutions. This segment includes employment, income and social security number verification services as well as complementary payroll-based transaction services and employment tax management services. Personal Solutions. This segment includes credit information, credit monitoring and identity theft protection products sold directly to consumers via the internet and in various hard-copy formats in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. Operating revenue and operating income by operating segment during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2015 and 2014 are as follows:
|  | Three Months Ended |  | Nine Months Ended
(In millions) |  | September 30, |  | September 30,
Operating revenue: |  | 2015 |  | 2014 |  | 2015 |  | 2014
U.S. Information Solutions |  | $ | 312.3 |  |  | $ | 278.6 |  |  | $ | 926.7 |  |  | $ | 820.9 |
International |  | 148.8 |  |  | 148.1 |  |  | 436.0 |  |  | 438.9 |
Workforce Solutions |  | 139.0 |  |  | 122.5 |  |  | 434.0 |  |  | 361.6 |
Personal Solutions |  | 67.3 |  |  | 64.2 |  |  | 200.6 |  |  | 190.4 |
Total operating revenue |  | $ | 667.4 |  |  | $ | 613.4 |  |  | $ | 1,997.3 |  |  | $ | 1,811.8 |
|  | Three Months Ended |  | Nine Months Ended
(In millions) |  | September 30, |  | September 30,
Operating income: |  | 2015 |  | 2014 |  | 2015 |  | 2014
U.S. Information Solutions |  | $ | 123.4 |  |  | $ | 104.3 |  |  | $ | 382.8 |  |  | $ | 312.4 |
International |  | 29.6 |  |  | 33.3 |  |  | 87.1 |  |  | 95.1 |
Workforce Solutions |  | 49.9 |  |  | 39.8 |  |  | 165.9 |  |  | 119.0 |
Personal Solutions |  | 18.1 |  |  | 20.8 |  |  | 54.8 |  |  | 58.3 |
General Corporate Expense |  | (46.7 | ) |  | (44.5 | ) |  | (173.6 | ) |  | (111.8 | )
Total operating income |  | $ | 174.3 |  |  | $ | 153.7 |  |  | $ | 517.0 |  |  | $ | 473.0 |
|  | September 30, |  | December 31,
(In millions) |  | 2015 |  | 2014
Total assets: |  |  |  |
U.S. Information Solutions |  | $ | 1,946.4 |  |  | $ | 1,983.9 |
International |  | 875.7 |  |  | 983.7 |
Workforce Solutions |  | 1,270.3 |  |  | 1,271.3 |
Personal Solutions |  | 120.3 |  |  | 123.8 |
General Corporate |  | 328.7 |  |  | 311.5 |
Total assets |  | $ | 4,541.4 |  |  | $ | 4,674.2 |

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- Definition The entire disclosure for reporting segments including data and tables. Reportable segments include those that meet any of the following quantitative thresholds a) it's reported revenue, including sales to external customers and intersegment sales or transfers is 10 percent or more of the combined revenue, internal and external, of all operating segments b) the absolute amount of its reported profit or loss is 10 percent or more of the greater, in absolute amount of 1) the combined reported profit of all operating segments that did not report a loss or 2) the combined reported loss of all operating segments that did report a loss c) its assets are 10 percent or more of the combined assets of all operating segments. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 34 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8981-108599 Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 41 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e9038-108599 Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 33 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8971-108599 Reference 4: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 12 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8595-108599 Reference 5: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 1 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8380-108599 Reference 6: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 32 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8933-108599 Reference 7: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 26 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8844-108599 Reference 8: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 35 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8984-108599 Reference 9: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 40 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e9031-108599 Reference 10: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 42 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e9054-108599 Reference 11: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 10 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8538-108599 Reference 12: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 29 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8864-108599 Reference 13: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 31 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8924-108599 Reference 14: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 30 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8906-108599 + Details
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