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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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Proceeds From Collection Of Deferred Purchase Price Receivables

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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The carrying amount (fair value) as of the balance sheet date of the transferor's interests in transferred financial assets (typically securitized receivables, generally not involved in the collection of principal) following transfer of significant portions of such financial instruments to other parties. Such interests could be ancillary cash flows and interest-only strips.

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Proceeds from securitizations of receivables treated as collateralized borrowings, which are classified as financing transactions.

Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef
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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.

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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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