Sales of Accounts Receivable

9 Months Ended

Sep. 29, 2012

Sales of Accounts Receivable [Abstract]

Sales of Accounts Receivable

4. Sales of Accounts Receivable

We have entered into several customer sponsored programs administered by unrelated financial institutions that permit us to sell certain accounts receivable at discounted rates to the financial institutions. Transactions under these agreements were accounted for as sales of accounts receivable and were removed from our consolidated balance sheet at the time of the sales transactions. We do not service the receivables after the sales transactions. Pursuant to these agreements, we sold $235.2 million and $149.7 million of accounts receivable during the thirty-nine weeks ended September 29, 2012 and September 24, 2011, respectively. If receivables had not been sold, $165.8 million and $137.0 million of additional receivables would have been outstanding at September 29, 2012 and December 31, 2011, respectively, based on standard payment terms. Selling, general and administrative expenses for the thirty-nine weeks ended September 29, 2012 and September 24, 2011 included $3.3 million and $2.7 million, respectively, in financing costs associated with these accounts receivable sales programs.