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Disclosure about revenues from external customers (1) attributed to the entity's country of domicile and (2) attributed to all foreign countries in total from which the entity derives revenues. If revenues from external customers attributed to an individual foreign country are material, those revenues must be disclosed seperately. An entity must disclose the basis for attributing revenues from external customers to individual countries. An entity may also provide subtotals of geographic information about groups of countries. Additionally, includes disclosures about long-lived assets (except financial instruments, long-term customer relationships of a financial institution, mortgage and other servicing rights, deferred policy acquisition costs, and deferred tax assets) that are (1) located in the entity's country of domicile, and (2) located in all foreign countries in which the entity holds assets.

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