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Segment Information | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2017
Segment Reporting [Abstract] |
Segment Information | Segment Information The Company conducts business through several operating segments that meet the aggregation criteria under authoritative guidance related to segment reporting. The Company’s management relies on internal management reporting processes that provide segment revenue, segment operating income, and segment asset information in order to make financial decisions and allocate resources. Prior to the first quarter 2016 the Company had determined that it had two reportable segments: portfolio purchasing and recovery and tax lien business. As discussed in Note 2, “Discontinued Operations,” on March 31, 2016, the Company completed the divestiture of its membership interests in Propel, which comprised the entire tax lien business segment. Propel’s operations are presented as discontinued operations in the Company’s consolidated statements of income. Beginning in the first quarter 2016, the Company has one reportable segment, portfolio purchasing and recovery. The following tables present information about geographic areas in which the Company operates (in thousands):
| Year Ended December 31,
| 2017 |  | 2016 |  | 2015
Revenues(1): |  |  |  |  |
United States | $ | 665,564 |  |  | $ | 669,636 |  |  | $ | 709,405 |
International |  |  |  |  |
Europe(2) | 427,655 |  |  | 270,411 |  |  | 376,055 |
Other geographies | 93,819 |  |  | 89,211 |  |  | 44,507 |
Total | $ | 1,187,038 |  |  | $ | 1,029,258 |  |  | $ | 1,129,967 |
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(1) | Revenues are attributed to countries based on location of customer.
(2) | Based on the financial information that is used to produce the general-purpose financial statements, providing further geographic information is impracticable.
| December 31, 2017 |  | December 31, 2016
Long-lived assets(1): |  |  |
United States | $ | 40,550 |  |  | $ | 39,126 |
International |  |  |
United Kingdom | 25,287 |  |  | 20,860 |
Other foreign countries | 10,439 |  |  | 12,271 |
| 35,726 |  |  | 33,131 |
Total | $ | 76,276 |  |  | $ | 72,257 |
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(1) | Long-lived assets consists of property and equipment, net.

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- Definition The entire disclosure for reporting segments including data and tables. Reportable segments include those that meet any of the following quantitative thresholds a) it's reported revenue, including sales to external customers and intersegment sales or transfers is 10 percent or more of the combined revenue, internal and external, of all operating segments b) the absolute amount of its reported profit or loss is 10 percent or more of the greater, in absolute amount of 1) the combined reported profit of all operating segments that did not report a loss or 2) the combined reported loss of all operating segments that did report a loss c) its assets are 10 percent or more of the combined assets of all operating segments. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2134510 + Details
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