Accounts Receivable Factoring

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2023

Transfers and Servicing [Abstract]

Accounts Receivable Factoring

Accounts Receivable Factoring

The Company has Receivables Factoring arrangements, pursuant to which certain receivables are sold to banks without recourse in exchange for cash. Transactions under the Receivables Factoring arrangements are accounted for as sales under ASC 860, Transfers and Servicing of Financial Assets, with the sold receivables removed from the Company’s balance sheet. Under these Receivables Factoring arrangements, the Company does not maintain any beneficial interest in the receivables sold. The banks’ purchase of eligible receivables is subject to a maximum amount of uncollected receivables. The Company services the receivables on behalf of the banks, but otherwise maintains no significant continuing involvement with respect to the receivables. Sale proceeds that are representative of the fair value of factored receivables, less a factoring fee, are reflected in Cash flows from operating activities on the Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows, while sale proceeds in excess of the fair value of factored receivables are reflected in Cash flows from financing activities on the Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows.

The Company has two Receivables Factoring arrangements. One arrangement allows for the factoring of up to €150 million of uncollected receivables originated from the EMEA and Asia-Pacific regions. In the third quarter, the Company amended its second arrangement to allow the factoring of uncollected receivables originated from the EMEA region from up to $25 million to $50 million. Otherwise, the amendment did not substantially change the terms of the arrangement.

The Company may be required to maintain a portion of sales proceeds as deposits in a restricted cash account that is released to the Company as it satisfies its obligations as servicer of sold receivables, which totaled $1 million and $12 million as of December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively, and is classified within Prepaid expenses and other current assets on the Consolidated Balance Sheets.

During the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021, the Company received cash proceeds of $1,404 million, $1,496 million and $1,504 million, respectively, from the sales of accounts receivables under its factoring arrangements. As of December 31, 2023 and 2022, there were a total of $56 million and $61 million, respectively, of uncollected receivables that had been sold and removed from the Company’s Consolidated Balance Sheets.

As servicer of sold receivables, the Company had $112 million and $130 million of obligations that were not yet remitted to banks as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively. These obligations are included within Accrued liabilities on the Consolidated Balance Sheets, with changes in such obligations reflected within Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities on the Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows.

Fees incurred in connection with these arrangements are included within Other expense, net on the Consolidated Statements of Operations and were $11 million, $5 million and $3 million for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021, respectively.