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Information on the expected future value of the payment for the contingent consideration.

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Represents the daily investment and redemption rate used to estimate the fair value of the company's financial instruments, assets, and liabilities.

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Fair Value Inputs, Discount Rate, Maximum Change Affecting Component Measurement

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Fair Value Inputs, EBITDA Probability Range

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This item represents the significant inputs, including any assumptions, used by management to estimate the range of outcomes for a contingent liability assumed in a business combination for which a change in the range of outcomes has been recognized during the reporting period.

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Amount of liability recognized arising from contingent consideration in a business combination.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Interest rate used to find the present value of an amount to be paid or received in the future as an input to measure fair value. For example, but not limited to, weighted average cost of capital (WACC), cost of capital, cost of equity and cost of debt.