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Installment Receivables Installment Receivables (Tables)
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2014
Receivables [Abstract]  
Schedule of Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Table Text Block]
The following table summarizes the installment receivables:

Successor
 
March 31,
2014

December 31,
2013
 
(in millions)
Installment receivables, gross
$
740


$
201

Deferred interest
(77
)

(10
)
Installment receivables, net of deferred interest
663


191

Allowance for credit losses
(47
)

(3
)
Installment receivables, net
$
616


$
188





Classified on the consolidated balance sheets as:



Accounts and notes receivable, net
$
299


$
95

Other assets
317


93

Installment receivables, net
$
616


$
188

Allowance for Credit Losses on Financing Receivables [Table Text Block]
Activity in the deferred interest and allowance for credit losses for the installment receivables since the inception of the program in September 2013 was as follows:
 
Successor
 
Three Months Ended
March 31,
 
Year Ended
December 31,
 
2014
 
2013
 
(in millions)
Deferred interest and allowance for credit losses, beginning of period
$
13

 
$

Bad debt expense
44

 
3

Write-offs, net of recoveries

 

Change in deferred interest on short-term and long-term installment receivables
67

 
10

Deferred interest and allowance for credit losses, end of period
$
124

 
$
13