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Consolidated Statement of Results of Operations (USD $)
In Millions, except Per Share data, unless otherwise specified
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2015
Mar. 31, 2014
Sales and revenues:    
Sales of Machinery, Energy & Transportation $ 11,961us-gaap_SalesRevenueNet $ 12,493us-gaap_SalesRevenueNet
Revenues of Financial Products 741us-gaap_FinancialServicesRevenue 748us-gaap_FinancialServicesRevenue
Total sales and revenues 12,702us-gaap_Revenues 13,241us-gaap_Revenues
Operating costs:    
Cost of goods sold 8,843us-gaap_CostOfGoodsSold 9,437us-gaap_CostOfGoodsSold
Selling, general and administrative expenses 1,318us-gaap_SellingGeneralAndAdministrativeExpense 1,292us-gaap_SellingGeneralAndAdministrativeExpense
Research and development expenses 546us-gaap_ResearchAndDevelopmentExpense 508us-gaap_ResearchAndDevelopmentExpense
Interest expense of Financial Products 150cat_InterestExpenseOfFinancialProducts 160cat_InterestExpenseOfFinancialProducts
Other operating (income) expenses 318us-gaap_OtherOperatingIncomeExpenseNet 446us-gaap_OtherOperatingIncomeExpenseNet
Total operating costs 11,175us-gaap_OperatingExpenses 11,843us-gaap_OperatingExpenses
Operating profit 1,527us-gaap_OperatingIncomeLoss 1,398us-gaap_OperatingIncomeLoss
Interest expense excluding Financial Products 129cat_InterestExpenseExcludingFinancialProducts 110cat_InterestExpenseExcludingFinancialProducts
Other income (expense) 157us-gaap_OtherNonoperatingIncomeExpense 54us-gaap_OtherNonoperatingIncomeExpense
Consolidated profit before taxes 1,555us-gaap_IncomeLossFromContinuingOperationsBeforeIncomeTaxesMinorityInterestAndIncomeLossFromEquityMethodInvestments 1,342us-gaap_IncomeLossFromContinuingOperationsBeforeIncomeTaxesMinorityInterestAndIncomeLossFromEquityMethodInvestments
Provision (benefit) for income taxes 443us-gaap_IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit 418us-gaap_IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit
Profit of consolidated companies 1,112cat_ProfitOfConsolidatedCompanies 924cat_ProfitOfConsolidatedCompanies
Equity in profit (loss) of unconsolidated affiliated companies 2us-gaap_IncomeLossFromEquityMethodInvestments 1us-gaap_IncomeLossFromEquityMethodInvestments
Profit of consolidated and affiliated companies 1,114us-gaap_ProfitLoss 925us-gaap_ProfitLoss
Less: Profit (loss) attributable to noncontrolling interests 3us-gaap_NetIncomeLossAttributableToNoncontrollingInterest 3us-gaap_NetIncomeLossAttributableToNoncontrollingInterest
Profit $ 1,111us-gaap_NetIncomeLossAvailableToCommonStockholdersBasic [1] $ 922us-gaap_NetIncomeLossAvailableToCommonStockholdersBasic [1]
Profit per common share (in dollars per share) $ 1.84us-gaap_EarningsPerShareBasic $ 1.47us-gaap_EarningsPerShareBasic
Profit per common share - diluted (in dollars per share) $ 1.81us-gaap_EarningsPerShareDiluted [2] $ 1.44us-gaap_EarningsPerShareDiluted [2]
Weighted-average common shares outstanding (millions)    
Basic (in shares) 604.9us-gaap_WeightedAverageNumberOfSharesOutstandingBasic 626.7us-gaap_WeightedAverageNumberOfSharesOutstandingBasic
Diluted (in shares) 612.7us-gaap_WeightedAverageNumberOfDilutedSharesOutstanding [2] 639.3us-gaap_WeightedAverageNumberOfDilutedSharesOutstanding [2]
Cash dividends declared per common share (in dollars per share) $ 0.00us-gaap_CommonStockDividendsPerShareDeclared $ 0.00us-gaap_CommonStockDividendsPerShareDeclared
[1] 1 Profit attributable to common stockholders.
[2] 2 Diluted by assumed exercise of stock-based compensation awards using the treasury stock method.