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SUBSEQUENT EVENTS	12 Months Ended
SUBSEQUENT EVENTS	Dec. 31, 2016
SUBSEQUENT EVENTS [Abstract]
SUBSEQUENT EVENTS	NOTE V: SUBSEQUENT EVENTS Companies are required to evaluate events and transactions that occur after the balance sheet date but before the date the financial statements are issued, or available to be issued in the case of non-public entities. They must recognize in the financial statements the effect of all events or transactions that provide additional evidence of conditions that existed at the balance sheet date, including the estimates inherent in the financial preparation process. Entities do not recognize the impact of events or transactions that provide evidence about conditions that did not exist at the balance sheet date but arose after that date. On February 3, 2017, the Company completed its acquisition of Northeast Retirement Services, Inc. (“NRS”) and its subsidiary Global Trust Company (“GTC”) headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts for approximately $148 million in Company stock and cash. NRS was a privately held corporation focused on providing institutional transfer agency, master recordkeeping services, custom target date fund administration, trust product administration and customized reporting services to institutional clients. Its wholly-owned subsidiary, GTC, was chartered in the State of Maine in 2008, as a non-depository trust company which provides fiduciary services for collective investment trusts and other products. The acquisition will strengthen and complement the Company’s existing employee benefit services businesses. Upon the completion of the merger, NRS is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BPAS and will operate as Northeast Retirement Services, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company. The initial accounting for the assets and liabilities assumed with this acquisition is incomplete as of the date of issuance of the financial statements due to the proximity of the acquisition date to the date of issuance.