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Revenues
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2020
Revenue from Contract with Customer [Abstract]  
Revenues
Disaggregation of Revenues

The tables below present disaggregated revenues from contracts with clients by client location, service line and contract-type for each of our business segments. We believe this disaggregation best depicts how the nature, amount, timing and uncertainty of our revenues and cash flows are affected by industry, market and other economic factors. Revenues are attributed to regions based upon client location. Substantially all revenues in our North America region relate to operations in the United States.

Three Months Ended
March 31, 2020
Financial ServicesHealthcareProducts and ResourcesCommunications, Media and TechnologyTotal
(in millions)
Revenues
Geography:
North America$1,012  $1,038  $689  $451  $3,190  
United Kingdom120  40  93  84  337  
Continental Europe191  99  109  38  437  
Europe - Total311  139  202  122  774  
Rest of World 128  17  63  53  261  
Total$1,451  $1,194  $954  $626  $4,225  
Service line:
Consulting and technology services
$947  $662  $590  $348  $2,547  
Outsourcing services504  532  364  278  1,678  
Total$1,451  $1,194  $954  $626  $4,225  
Type of contract:
Time and materials$884  $475  $409  $383  $2,151  
Fixed-price483  409  443  219  1,554  
Transaction or volume-based
84  310  102  24  520  
Total$1,451  $1,194  $954  $626  $4,225  

We expect the COVID-19 pandemic to result in reduced demand across all our segments in the second quarter of 2020 and potentially longer. We expect demand from our retail and consumer goods clients and our travel and hospitality clients in our Products and Resources segment as well as communications and media clients in our Communications, Media and Technology segment to be particularly negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Three Months Ended
March 31, 2019
Financial ServicesHealthcareProducts and ResourcesCommunications, Media and TechnologyTotal
(in millions)
Revenues
Geography:
North America$1,018  $1,042  $641  $422  $3,123  
United Kingdom129  25  94  81  329  
Continental Europe162  82  115  46  405  
Europe - Total291  107  209  127  734  
Rest of World 127  16  64  46  253  
Total$1,436  $1,165  $914  $595  $4,110  
Service line:
Consulting and technology services
$913  $638  $552  $306  $2,409  
Outsourcing services523  527  362  289  1,701  
Total$1,436  $1,165  $914  $595  $4,110  
Type of contract:
Time and materials$919  $458  $400  $375  $2,152  
Fixed-price464  400  414  190  1,468  
Transaction or volume-based
53  307  100  30  490  
Total$1,436  $1,165  $914  $595  $4,110  
Costs to Fulfill

Costs to fulfill, such as set-up or transition activities, are recorded in "Other noncurrent assets" in our unaudited consolidated statements of financial position and the amortization expense of costs to fulfill is included in "Cost of revenues" in our unaudited consolidated statements of operations. Costs to obtain contracts were immaterial for the period disclosed. The following table presents information related to the capitalized costs to fulfill for the three months ended March 31:
20202019
(in millions)
Beginning balance485  $400  
Amortization expense(22) (20) 
Costs capitalized35  43  
Ending balance$498  $423  
Contract Balances
A contract asset is a right to consideration that is conditional upon factors other than the passage of time. Contract assets are presented in "Other current assets" in our unaudited consolidated statements of financial position and primarily relate to unbilled amounts on fixed-price contracts utilizing the cost to cost method of revenue recognition. The table below shows significant movements in contract assets for the three months ended March 31:
20202019
(in millions)
Beginning balance$334  $305  
Revenues recognized during the period but not billed219  238  
Amounts reclassified to trade accounts receivable(194) (208) 
Ending balance$359  $335  
Our contract liabilities, or deferred revenue, consist of advance payments and billings in excess of revenues recognized. The tables below show significant movements in the deferred revenue balances (current and noncurrent) for the three months ended March 31:
20202019
(in millions)
Beginning balance$336  $348  
Amounts billed but not recognized as revenues257  205  
Revenues recognized related to the opening balance of deferred revenue(197) (149) 
Ending balance$396  $404  
Revenues recognized during the three months ended March 31, 2020 for performance obligations satisfied or partially satisfied in previous periods were immaterial.
Remaining Performance Obligations
As of March 31, 2020, the aggregate amount of transaction price allocated to remaining performance obligations, was $1,674 million of which approximately 70% is expected to be recognized as revenue within 2 years. Disclosure is not required for performance obligations that meet any of the following criteria:
(1)contracts with a duration of one year or less as determined under ASC Topic 606: "Revenue from Contracts with Customers",
(2)contracts for which we recognize revenues based on the right to invoice for services performed,
(3)variable consideration allocated entirely to a wholly unsatisfied performance obligation or to a wholly unsatisfied promise to transfer a distinct good or service that forms part of a single performance obligation in accordance with ASC 606-10-25-14(b), for which the criteria in ASC 606-10-32-40 have been met, or
(4)variable consideration in the form of a sales-based or usage based royalty promised in exchange for a license of intellectual property.
Many of our performance obligations meet one or more of these exemptions and therefore are not included in the remaining performance obligation amount disclosed above.
Trade Accounts Receivable and Allowance for Doubtful Accounts
We calculate expected credit losses for our trade accounts receivable based on historical credit loss rates for each aging category as adjusted for the current market conditions and forecasts about future economic conditions. The following table presents the activity in the allowance for doubtful accounts for trade accounts receivable:
Allowance for Doubtful Accounts
(in millions)
Balance - December 31, 2019$67  
Impact of adoption of the Credit Loss Standard (1) 
Current-period provision for expected credit losses10  
Write-offs charged against the allowance(2) 
Balance - March 31, 2020$74