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Represents information pertaining to additional milestones-based contingent consideration payment in options to ordinary shares in terms of percentage.

No definition available.

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The average discount rate applied for contingent consideration arrangements in business combination.

No definition available.

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Represents the end date of milestone period.

No definition available.

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Represents the number of equal tranches to vest.

No definition available.

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This element represents acquisition-related costs incurred to effect a business combination which costs have been expensed during the period. Such costs include finder's fees; advisory, legal, accounting, valuation, and other professional or consulting fees; general administrative costs, including the costs of maintaining an internal acquisitions department; and may include costs of registering and issuing debt and equity securities.

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-Topic 805

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Amount of liability recognized arising from contingent consideration in a business combination, expected to be settled within one year or the normal operating cycle, if longer.

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Period which an employee's right to exercise an award is no longer contingent on satisfaction of either a service condition, market condition or a performance condition, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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