text: As a result of the Company’s inability to achieve operating improvements, including software license and service orders for Euronet USA’s 
  traditional core product (ITM) and cost reductions, the Software Solutions Segment continued operating at a loss through the first thre e 
  q u a rters of 2000. The Company calculated the expected cash flows of the Company’s Software Solutions Segment, which identified an 
  i m p a i rment of its long-lived assets. Accord i n g l y, in the third quarter of 2000, the Company re c o rded an impairment charge based on the 
  p resent value of expected cash flows of $11.2 million for the write-down of goodwill and other identifiable intangible assets re c o rded upon 
  the acquisition of Euronet USA. The Company considers the rapidly changing business environment surrounding electronic transaction 
  payment systems software to be a primary indicator of any potential impairment of goodwill and other identifiable intangible assets related to 
  the Company’s Software Solutions Segment. The Company is in the process of repositioning Euronet USA in the market thro u g h 
  development and release of a new set of products that are independent of Euronet USA’s traditional core product lines, including a new, 
  p l a t f o rm independent Java based transaction processing software package with wireless banking and messaging modules and a set of mobile 
  phone prepaid re c h a rge solutions. It has become apparent, based on market reaction to these new products, that these new products and 
  solutions rather than Euronet USA’s traditional ITM solution will be the primary source of software solutions revenues in the future. 