Tabular disclosure of interest expense recognized relating to debt instrument.

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Tabular disclosure of convertible debt instrument. Includes, but is not limited to, principal amount and amortized premium or discount.

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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

Tabular disclosure of maturity and sinking fund requirement for long-term debt.

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Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 470
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 1
-URI https://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=123465755&loc=d3e1835-112601

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