Financial Statement Information Receivables (Policies)

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2020

Receivables [Abstract]

Receivable [Policy Text Block]

Allowance for Credit Losses

Management evaluates the aging of customer receivable balances, the financial condition of our customers, historical trends, and macroeconomic factors to estimate the amount of customer receivables that may not be collected in the future and records a provision it believes is appropriate. Our reserve for expected lifetime credit losses was approximately $70 million and $53 million at June 30, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively. Bad debt expense totaled $24 million and $6 million for the six months ended June 30, 2020 and June 30, 2019, respectively. The increase in our allowance for credit losses since December 31, 2019 is attributable to the $3 million effect of the adoption of ASU No. 2016-13, "Financial Instruments - Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments" ("ASU 2016-13") in the first quarter of 2020 (see the Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements section below for further details) and an increase in expected lifetime losses primarily attributable to the downturn in the global economy related to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lessee, Leases

Leases

We lease certain warehouses, distribution centers, retail stores, office space, land, vehicles and equipment. We determine if an arrangement is a lease at inception. Operating and finance lease right-of-use ("ROU") assets and lease liabilities are recognized based on the present value of the future minimum lease payments over the lease term at the commencement date. As the implicit rate for most of our leases is not readily determinable, we use our incremental borrowing rate based on the information available at the commencement date in determining the present value of future payments. We determine our incremental borrowing rate by analyzing yield curves with consideration of lease term, country and company specific factors. The ROU asset also includes any lease prepayments and excludes lease incentives.

Many of our leases include one or more options to renew, with renewal terms that can extend the lease term from 1 year to 40 years or more. For each lease, we consider whether we are reasonably certain to exercise these options to extend. Other contracts may contain termination options that we assess to determine whether we are reasonably certain not to exercise those options. Certain leases also include options to purchase the leased property. The depreciable lives of assets and leasehold improvements are limited by the expected lease term, unless there is a transfer of title or purchase option reasonably certain of exercise.

Some of our lease agreements include rental payments adjusted periodically for inflation. Most of these adjustments are considered variable lease costs. Other variable lease costs consist of certain non-lease components that are disclosed as lease costs due to our election of the practical expedient to combine lease and non-lease components and include items such as variable payments for utilities, property taxes, common area maintenance, sales taxes, and insurance.

For leases with an initial term of 12 months or less, we have not recognized an ROU asset or lease liability on the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets; we recognize lease expense for these leases on a straight-line basis over the lease terms.

In response to the COVID-19 global pandemic, we have secured rent relief from some of our lessors. The rent relief offered has most often been in the form of rent payment deferrals for one or more months to be paid back over a specified period of time ranging from one month to the remaining term of the lease. In accordance with FASB Staff Q&A - Topic 842 and Topic 840: Accounting for Lease Concessions Related to the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic ("FASB Staff Q&A") issued in April 2020, we are able to account for lease deferrals resulting directly from COVID-19 as if the enforceable rights and obligations for the deferrals existed in the respective contracts at lease inception as long as those concessions do not result in a substantial increase in our lease obligations. As a result, we have been able to apply the relief in most circumstances. Guidance from the FASB Staff Q&A provided methods to account for such rent deferrals, including the option to account for the lease as if no changes to the lease contract were made or to account for the deferred payments as variable lease payments. For the majority of our leases that were affected by rent relief actions, we elected to account for the deferrals as if no changes to the lease contract were made and continued to recognize lease expense, on a straight-line basis, during the deferral period. As of June 30, 2020, payment deferrals totaled $7 million and were recorded in Other current liabilities on the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets. Other concessions consisting of abated rent or discounted rent, without payback, from various landlords of $2 million resulted in reductions to Selling, general and administrative expenses in our Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income.