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Valuation and Qualifying Accounts

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2012

Valuation and Qualifying Accounts

4. Valuation and Qualifying Accounts

		Balance at Beginning  of Period				Charged to Expense				Deductions(1)				Balance at End of Period
Allowance for doubtful accounts receivable:
Nine months ended September 30, 2012		$	11,706				13,492				(15,896	)		$	9,302
Nine months ended September 30, 2011		$	30,112				27,903				(43,597	)		$	14,418

(1) Deductions represent accounts written off, net of recoveries.

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- Definition

The entire disclosure for any allowance and reserve accounts (their beginning and ending balances, as well as a reconciliation by type of activity during the period). Alternatively, disclosure of the required information may be within the footnotes to the financial statements or a supplemental schedule to the financial statements.

+ References

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

-Publisher SEC

-Name Regulation S-X (SX)

-Number 210

-Section 09

-Article 12



Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 235

-SubTopic 10

-Section S99

-Paragraph 4

-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6881521&loc=d3e24092-122690

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