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Receivables and Allowance for Credit Losses (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2022
Receivables [Abstract] |
Schedule of Activity in Allowance for Credit Losses | Activity in the allowance for credit losses for the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020 was as follows:
|  | Year Ended December 31, |
|  | 2022 |  |  | 2021 |  |  | 2020 |
Beginning Balance |  | $ | 33,957 |  |  | $ | 36,649 |  |  | $ | 27,130 |
Adjustment for adoption of new accounting guidance |  |  | - |  |  |  | - |  |  |  | 7,575 |
Bad debt expense, net of reversals |  |  | 4,012 |  |  |  | 3,807 |  |  |  | 3,991 |
Charge-offs, foreign currency translation and other adjustments |  |  | (20,231 | ) |  |  | (6,499 | ) |  |  | (2,047 | )
Ending Balance |  | $ | 17,738 |  |  | $ | 33,957 |  |  | $ | 36,649 |

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