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<p style="FONT-FAMILY: arial; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><font color="#F20017" size="2"><b>9. Cash Equivalents </b></font></p>
<p style="FONT-FAMILY: arial; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><font size="2"> Cash equivalents include highly liquid investments with an original maturity of three months or less from the time of purchase. Cash equivalents also include amounts due from third-party financial institutions for credit and debit card transactions. These receivables typically settle in less than five days and were $313 million at January 29, 2011 and January 30, 2010. Payables due to Visa resulting from the use of Target Visa Cards are included within cash equivalents and were $36 million and $40 million at January 29, 2011 and January 30, 2010, respectively. </font></p></td></tr></table>
9. Cash Equivalents
Cash equivalents include highly liquid investments with an original maturity of threefalsefalsefalsefalsefalseOtherus-types:textBlockItemTypestringThe entire cash and cash equivalents footnote disclosure, which may include the types of deposits and money market instruments, applicable carrying amounts, restricted amounts and compensating balance arrangements. Cash and equivalents include: (1) currency on hand (2) demand deposits with banks or financial institutions (3) other kinds of accounts that have the general characteristics of demand deposits (4) short-term, highly liquid investments that are both readily convertible to known amounts of cash and so near their maturity that they present insignificant risk of changes in value because of changes in interest rates. Generally, only investments maturing within three months from the date of acquisition qualify.Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher SEC
-Name Staff Accounting Bulletin (SAB)
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-Name Statement of Financial Accounting Standard (FAS)
-Number 95
-Paragraph 7
-Footnote 1
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-Publisher SEC
-Name Regulation S-X (SX)
-Number 210
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