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Income tax provision (Details)	3 Months Ended	9 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2023	Sep. 30, 2023	Dec. 31, 2022
Reconciliation of effective income tax rate
Effective income tax rate	13.00%	45.00%	22.30%
Tax impact of share based compensation		9.70%
Tax impact of foreign operations		8.30%
Business exit activities		8.00%

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The year-over-year impact on the effective income tax rate attributable to disposition of a business not qualifying as a discontinued operation.

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Amount of the difference between reported income tax expense (benefit) and expected income tax expense (benefit) computed by applying the domestic federal statutory income tax rates to pretax income (loss) from continuing operations attributable to foreign income tax expense (benefit) plus the tax impact of the repatriation of foreign earnings.

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The year-over-year impact on the effective income tax rate attributable to the tax impact of share-based compensation awards.

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Percentage of current income tax expense (benefit) and deferred income tax expense (benefit) pertaining to continuing operations.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Topic 740
-SubTopic 10
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Section 50
-Paragraph 12
-Publisher FASB
-URI https://asc.fasb.org//1943274/2147482685/740-10-50-12

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