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Significant Accounting Policies (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2018
Significant Accounting Policies |
Schedule of Income Before Income Taxes Attributable to Joint Ventures | The income before income taxes attributable to these joint ventures for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2018 and September 24, 2017 was as follows (in thousands):
|  | Three Months Ended |  | Nine Months Ended
|  | September 30, |  | September 24, |  | September 30, |  | September 24,
|  | 2018 |  | 2017 |  | 2018 |  | 2017
Papa John’s International, Inc. |  | $ | 1,512 |  | $ | 1,469 |  | $ | 4,384 |  | $ | 6,172
Noncontrolling interests |  |  | 439 |  |  | 852 |  |  | 1,956 |  |  | 3,767
Total income before income taxes |  | $ | 1,951 |  | $ | 2,321 |  | $ | 6,340 |  | $ | 9,939
Schedule of Joint Ventures in Which There are Noncontrolling Interests | The following summarizes the redemption feature, location and related accounting within the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets for these joint venture arrangements:
Type of Joint Venture Arrangement |  | Location within the Balance Sheets |  | Recorded Value
Joint venture with no redemption feature |  | Permanent equity |  | Carrying value
Option to require the Company to purchase the noncontrolling interest - not currently redeemable |  | Temporary equity |  | Carrying value
Schedule of Financial Assets and Liabilities Measured at Fair Value on a Recurring Basis | Our financial assets that were measured at fair value on a recurring basis as of September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017 are as follows (in thousands):
|  | Carrying |  | Fair Value Measurements |
|  | Value |  | Level 1 |  | Level 2 |  | Level 3 |
September 30, 2018 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Financial assets: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Cash surrender value of life insurance policies (a) |  | $ | 31,495 |  | $ | 31,495 |  | $ | — |  | $ | — |
Interest rate swaps (b) |  |  | 12,163 |  |  | — |  |  | 12,163 |  |  | — |
December 31, 2017 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Financial assets: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Cash surrender value of life insurance policies (a) |  | $ | 28,645 |  | $ | 28,645 |  | $ | — |  | $ | — |
Interest rate swaps (b) |  |  | 651 |  |  | — |  |  | 651 |  |  | — |
| (a) |  | Represents life insurance policies held in our non-qualified deferred compensation plan.
| (b) |  | The fair value of our interest rate swaps is based on the sum of all future net present value cash flows. The future cash flows are derived based on the terms of our interest rate swaps, as well as considering published discount factors, and projected London Interbank Offered Rates (“LIBOR”).

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- Definition Tabular disclosure of assets and liabilities, including [financial] instruments measured at fair value that are classified in stockholders' equity, if any, that are measured at fair value on a recurring basis. The disclosures contemplated herein include the fair value measurements at the reporting date by the level within the fair value hierarchy in which the fair value measurements in their entirety fall, segregating fair value measurements using quoted prices in active markets for identical assets (Level 1), significant other observable inputs (Level 2), and significant unobservable inputs (Level 3). + References Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 820 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 1 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=99377789&loc=d3e19190-110258 + Details
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