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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies - Description of Business and Fiscal Year (Details) | 3 Months Ended |
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Apr. 03, 2021 segments area | Mar. 08, 2021 USD ($)
Self-Tender Stock Offering [Line Items] |  |
Number of broad areas of consulting services | area | 2 |
Number of business segment | segments | 1 |
Self Tender Offer |  |
Self-Tender Stock Offering [Line Items] |  |
Self-tender stock offering, authorized amount | $ |  | $ 25,000,000.0

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- Definition Number of operating segments. An operating segment is a component of an enterprise: (a) that engages in business activities from which it may earn revenues and incur expenses (including revenues and expenses relating to transactions with other components of the same enterprise), (b) whose operating results are regularly reviewed by the enterprise's chief operating decision maker to make decisions about resources to be allocated to the segment and assess its performance, and (c) for which discrete financial information is available. An operating segment may engage in business activities for which it has yet to earn revenues, for example, start-up operations may be operating segments before earning revenues. + References No definition available. + Details
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- Definition Amount of stock repurchase plan authorized. + References No definition available. + Details
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