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This amount represents the total amount received from sale of accounts receivable to a third party.

No definition available.

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This amount represents the maximum amount of receivables eligible to be sold to the commercial paper conduits from the asset-backed securitization program.

No definition available.

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Represents the number of asset-backed securitization programs in which the entity participates.

No definition available.

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Represents the percentage of receivables sold to unaffiliated institutions.

No definition available.

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Service fee.

No definition available.

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This amount represents the total amount of accounts receivable sold by the company to a third party.

No definition available.

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Cash Flows between a transferor and a transferee attributable to newly transferred assets related to either a securitization, asset-backed financing arrangement, or similar transfer in which the transferor has continuing involvement with the transferred financial assets underlying the transaction (including, but not limited to, servicing, recourse, and restrictions on transferor's interests in the transferred financial assets).

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 860
-SubTopic 20
-Section 50
-Paragraph 3
-Subparagraph (d)(1)
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Proceeds from securitizations of receivables treated as collateralized borrowings, which are classified as financing transactions.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 230
-SubTopic 10
-Section 45
-Paragraph 14
-Subparagraph (b)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=98514028&loc=d3e3255-108585

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

No definition available.

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Aggregate amount of servicing assets that are subsequently measured at fair value and servicing assets that are subsequently measured using the amortization method.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 860
-SubTopic 50
-Section 45
-Paragraph 2
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6469459&loc=d3e122501-111745

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Aggregate amount of servicing liabilities that are subsequently measured at fair value and servicing liabilities that are subsequently measured using the amortization method.

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