The Financial Accounting Standards Board
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Accounting Standards Codification Topic 280
Topic 280 provides guidance to public business entities on how to report certain information about operating segments in complete sets of financial statements of the public entity and in condensed financial statements of interim periods issued to shareholders. It also requires that public entities report certain information about their products and services, the geographic areas in which they operate, and their major customers.
report from Ernst & Young
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