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Segment and Geographic Information

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2018

Segment Reporting [Abstract]

Segment and Geographic Information

Segment and Geographic Information

The Company conducts business through several operating segments that have similar economic and other qualitative characteristics and have been aggregated in accordance with authoritative guidance into one reportable segment, portfolio purchasing and recovery. Since the Company operates in one reportable segment, all required segment information can be found in the consolidated financial statements.

The Company has operations in the United States, Europe and other foreign countries. The following table presents the Company’s total revenues, adjusted by net allowances by geographic areas in which the Company operates (in thousands):

	Three Months Ended  June 30,								Six Months Ended  June 30,
	2018				2017				2018				2017
Revenues, adjusted by net allowances(1):
United States	$	179,843			$	173,613			$	351,787			$	343,929
International
Europe(2)	144,462				94,754				275,076				172,692
Other geographies	25,442				22,550				49,672				46,237
	169,904				117,304				324,748				218,929
Total	$	349,747			$	290,917			$	676,535			$	562,858

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(1) Revenues, adjusted by net allowances, are attributed to countries based on location of customer. Revenues primarily include portfolio revenues and fee-based income earned on accounts collected on behalf of others.

(2) Based on the financial information that is used to produce the general-purpose financial statements, providing further geographic information is impracticable.

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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.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 280
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2134510

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