Represents the amount of dealer commission, reimbursed dealer expenses and other similar costs.

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- Definition

Amount after tax of increase (decrease) to equity or (increase) decrease to net assets, resulting from the cumulative effect adjustment of a new accounting principle applied in the period of adoption.

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- Definition

Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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- Definition

Indicates (true false) whether practical expedient was elected to recognize incremental cost of obtaining contract as expense when incurred if amortization period would have been one year or less.

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Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 606
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 22
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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 340
-SubTopic 40
-Section 50
-Paragraph 5
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=68051541&loc=SL51790836-203054

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NATURE OF OPERATIONS - Revenue Recognition (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	3 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2019	Mar. 31, 2018	Jan. 01, 2019
Disaggregation of revenue
Incremental costs of obtaining a contract	true
Dealer commission, reimbursed dealer expenses and other similar costs	$ 4,327	$ 5,975
ASU 2014-09
Disaggregation of revenue
Impact of adoption			$ 0