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UAFRS vs As Reported Weekly Highlights - 2019 09 25

This week, Valens identified distortions and the corresponding adjustments to correct for those distortions for EGOV, IMAX, and MD.
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IMAX Corporation

IMAX is an entertainment technology company. Co.'s businesses are: the design and manufacture of theater systems and the sale or contribution of those systems to customers under theater system arrangements; and the Digital Re-Mastering of films into the IMAX format and the exhibition of those films in the IMAX theater network. Co. is also engaged in the production and distribution of original large-format films, the provision of services in support of the IMAX theater network, the provision of post-production services for large-format films, the operation of three IMAX theaters and, from time-to-time the conversion of two-dimensional and three-dimensional Hollywood feature films.

MEDNAX Inc.

MEDNAX provides physician services including newborn, anesthesia, maternal-fetal, radiology and teleradiology, pediatric cardiology and other pediatric subspecialty care. The company's network comprised of physicians, including physicians who provide neonatal clinical care, primarily within hospital-based neonatal intensive care units, to babies born prematurely or with medical complications. The company also provides radiology services and teleradiology services. In addition to its national physician network, the company provides services to healthcare facilities and physicians, including the company's, through complementary businesses, consisting of a management services organization and a consulting services company.

NIC Inc.

NIC is a provider of digital government services that help governments use technology. The company operates through two channels: state enterprise businesses and its software and services businesses. In its state enterprise businesses, the company has contracts with state and local governments to designs, builds, and operates digital government services on an enterprise-wide basis on their behalf. In its software and services businesses, the company provides certain payment processing services, software development and digital government services, other than those provided on an enterprise-wide basis, to federal agencies, as well as state and local governments.

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