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Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income ("AOCI") | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2018
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Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income ("AOCI") | 16. Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (“AOCI”)—The following table lists the beginning balance, annual activity and ending balance of accumulated other comprehensive loss, which consists of foreign currency translation adjustments:
|  | Total |
Balance, December 31, 2016 |  | $ | (4,851 | )
FX translation |  |  | 344 |
Balance, December 31, 2017 |  |  | (4,507 | )
FX translation |  |  | 672 |
Balance, March 31, 2018 |  | $ | (3,835 | )

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