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Acquisitions (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2016
Business Combinations [Abstract] |
Cash Paid For Current And Prior Years' Acquisitions [Table Text Block] | Details of cash paid for current and prior years' acquisitions are listed below.
| Three months ended March 31,
| 2016 |  | 2015
Cost of investment: current-year acquisitions | $ | 29.8 |  |  | $ | 0.0 |
Cost of investment: prior-year acquisitions | 0.5 |  |  | 2.4 |
Less: net cash acquired | (3.3 | ) |  | 0.0 |
Total cost of investment | 27.0 |  |  | 2.4 |
Operating expense 1 | 0.0 |  |  | 0.4 |
Total cash paid for acquisitions 2 | $ | 27.0 |  |  | $ | 2.8 |
1 | Represents cash payments made that were either in excess of the initial value of contingent payments or contingent upon the future employment of the former owners of the acquired companies and are recorded in the operating section of the Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows.
2 | $27.0 for the three months ended March 31, 2016 is classified under the investing section of the unaudited Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows, as acquisitions, net of cash acquired. This amount relates to initial payments for new transactions. $2.4 of cash paid for three months ended March 31, 2015 is classified under the financing section of the unaudited Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows as acquisition-related payments.
Redeemable Noncontrolling Interest [Table Text Block] | The following table presents changes in our redeemable noncontrolling interests.
| Three months ended March 31,
| 2016 |  | 2015
Balance at beginning of period | $ | 251.9 |  |  | $ | 257.4 |
Change in related noncontrolling interests balance | (2.9 | ) |  | (2.1 | )
Changes in redemption value of redeemable noncontrolling interests: |  |  |
Redemptions and other | (9.0 | ) |  | (15.7 | )
Redemption value adjustments | 6.3 |  |  | 3.2 |
Balance at end of period | $ | 246.3 |  |  | $ | 242.8 |

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