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Percentage of assumed long-term growth in revenues, used as an input to measure fair value of non-financial asset.

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Ratio of the net operating income produced by an asset and its capital cost (original prices paid to buy the asset), used as an input to measure fair value.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
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Amount of investment of impaired financing receivables with related allowance for credit losses and without a related allowance for credit losses.

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