Business Segment Information

6 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2016

Segment Reporting [Abstract]

Segment Reporting

Summarized information about the Company's results of operations by business segment follows (in millions):

	Three Months Ended March 31,									Six Months Ended March 31,
	Sales					Earnings				Sales				Earnings
	2015			2016		2015		2016		2015		2016		2015		2016
Process Management	$	2,042		1,828		299		265		4,141		3,634		691		536
Industrial Automation	1,034			870		144		116		2,186		1,678		308		211
Network Power	1,063			1,018		34		83		2,182		2,069		113		167
Climate Technologies	982			995		170		188		1,882		1,782		296		297
Commercial & Residential Solutions	465			394		91		92		945		786		194		177
	5,586			5,105		738		744		11,336		9,949		1,602		1,388
Differences in accounting methods						53		58						111		113
Corporate and other						853		(148	)					742		(298	)
Eliminations/Interest	(186		)	(177	)	(40	)	(46	)	(349	)	(308	)	(86	)	(92	)
Total	$	5,400		4,928		1,604		608		10,987		9,641		2,369		1,111

Industrial Automation intersegment sales for the quarters ended March 31, 2016 and 2015 were $164 million and $167 million, respectively, and year-to-date $280 million and $312 million. Corporate and other in 2015 included a $932 million gain on the power transmission solutions divestiture. See Note 11. Corporate and other for 2016 includes higher incentive stock compensation expense of $46 million in the second quarter and $67 million year-to-date due primarily to an increasing stock price in the current year compared with a decreasing price in the prior year, and overlap of award programs. Corporate and other also includes separation costs of $31 million in the second quarter and $55 million year-to-date.