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ACCOUNTING POLICIES ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2017
Accounting Policies [Abstract] |
Schedule of Quantifying Prior Year Misstatements Corrected in Current Year Financial Statements [Table Text Block] | The following table presents the effects on the financial statement line items that were revised:
| December 31, 2016
| As Reported |  | Adjustment |  | As Revised
| (In thousands)
Income taxes receivable | $ | 72,881 |  |  | $ | (67,156 | ) |  | $ | 5,725 |
Prepaid expenses and other current assets | 48,583 |  |  | (2,223 | ) |  | 46,360 |
Total current assets | 2,172,457 |  |  | (69,379 | ) |  | 2,103,078 |
Goodwill | 1,720,714 |  |  | 10,236 |  |  | 1,730,950 |
Total assets | 4,490,984 |  |  | (59,143 | ) |  | 4,431,841 |
Income taxes payable | 32,879 |  |  | (22,998 | ) |  | 9,881 |
Total current liabilities | 896,797 |  |  | (22,998 | ) |  | 873,799 |
Deferred income taxes | 158,009 |  |  | 10,236 |  |  | 168,245 |
Total liabilities | 2,480,972 |  |  | (12,762 | ) |  | 2,468,210 |
Retained earnings (1) | 1,956,532 |  |  | (41,775 | ) |  | 1,914,757 |
Accumulated other comprehensive loss (1) | (387,365 | ) |  | (4,606 | ) |  | (391,971 | )
Total WESCO International, Inc. stockholders' equity | 2,013,281 |  |  | (46,381 | ) |  | 1,966,900 |
Total stockholders' equity | 2,010,012 |  |  | (46,381 | ) |  | 1,963,631 |
Total liabilities and stockholders' equity | 4,490,984 |  |  | (59,143 | ) |  | 4,431,841 |
(1) | These financial statement line items have been revised as of December 31, 2015 and 2014 in the Consolidated Statements of Stockholders' Equity for the years ended December 31, 2017, 2016 and 2015.

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- Definition Tabular disclosure of the nature and amount of prior period errors that had previously been considered immaterial and which are being corrected in the current fiscal year. This disclosure would also generally include when and how each error being corrected arose and assert that the errors were immaterial to the prior amounts reported. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 250 -SubTopic 10 -Section S99 -Paragraph 2 -Subparagraph (SAB Topic 1.N) -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=26874127&loc=d3e30840-122693 + Details
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