BUSINESSES HELD FOR SALE AND DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS - Schedule of Financial Information for Assets and Liabilities of Businesses Held for Sale (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions		Jun. 30, 2017	Dec. 31, 2016
Assets
Assets		$ 7,850	$ 14,815
Liabilities
Liabilities	[1]	911	4,158
Financial Services (GE Capital)
Assets
Assets		7,850	14,806
Liabilities
Liabilities		888	4,123
GE Capital | Financial Services (GE Capital)
Assets
Current receivables		280	117
Held for sale
Assets
Current receivables		698	366
Inventories		579	211
Property, plant, and equipment – net		1,034	632
Goodwill		1,258	212
Other intangible assets – net		237	123
Contract assets		195	125
Other		96	76
Assets		4,096	1,745
Liabilities
Accounts payable		394	190
Progress collections and price adjustments accrued		155	141
Other current liabilities		264	133
Non-current compensation and benefits		219	82
Other		162	110
Liabilities		$ 1,195	$ 656

[1] Our consolidated assets at June 30, 2017 included total assets of $5,851 million of certain variable interest entities (VIEs) that can only be used to settle the liabilities of those VIEs. These assets included current receivables and net financing receivables of $1,445 million and investment securities of $1,004 million within continuing operations and assets of discontinued operations of $285 million. Our consolidated liabilities at June 30, 2017 included liabilities of certain VIEs for which the VIE creditors do not have recourse to GE. These liabilities included non-recourse borrowings of consolidated securitization entities (CSEs) of $(682) million within continuing operations. See Note 17.