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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS continued
Changes in the amount of goodwill for the twelve months ended December 31, 2009 and 2008, are as follows:
U.S. Consumer North America North America
Information Personal Commercial
(in millions) Solutions International TALX Solutions Solutions Total
Balance, December 31, 2007 $ 491.2 $ 351.6 $ 952.3 $ 1.8 $ 37.7 $ 1,834.6
Acquisitions 2.7 8.8 1.2 — — 12.7
Adjustments to initial purchase price allocation — — 2.7 — — 2.7
Foreign currency translation — (85.1) — — (1.2) (86.3)
Tax benefits of options exercised — — (3.7) — — (3.7)
Reallocation of goodwill 96.0 — (96.0) — — —
Balance, December 31, 2008 $ 589.9 $ 275.3 $ 856.5 $ 1.8 $ 36.5 $ 1,760.0
Acquisitions 78.4 — 38.3 — — 116.7
Adjustments to initial purchase price allocation (0.5) 0.1 6.0 — — 5.6
Foreign currency translation — 60.3 — — 0.8 61.1
Tax benefits of options exercised —— (0.2) — —(0.2)
Balance, December 31, 2009 $ 667.8 $ 335.7 $ 900.6 $ 1.8 $ 37.3 $ 1,943.2
Indefinite-Lived Intangible Assets. Indefinite-lived intangible assets annually and whenever events or circumstances indicate that there
consist of contractual/territorial rights representing the estimated fair may be an impairment of the asset value. We perform our annual
value of rights to operate in certain territories acquired through the indefinite-lived intangible asset impairment test as of September 30
purchase of independent credit reporting agencies in the U.S. and each year. Our annual impairment tests as of September 30, 2009,
Canada. Our contractual/territorial rights are perpetual in nature and, 2008 and 2007 resulted in no impairment of our indefinite-lived
therefore, the useful lives are considered indefinite. Indefinite-lived intangible assets. Our contractual/territorial rights carrying amounts
intangible assets are not amortized. As discussed in Note 1, we are did not change materially during the twelve months ended Decem-
required to test indefinite-lived intangible assets for impairment ber 31, 2009 and 2008.
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