Business Segment Information

9 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2016

Segment Reporting [Abstract]

Segment Reporting

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

	Three Months Ended June 30,									Nine Months Ended June 30,
	Sales					Earnings				Sales				Earnings
	2015			2016		2015		2016		2015		2016		2015		2016
Process Management	$	2,084		1,804		373		271		6,225		5,438		1,064		807
Industrial Automation	990			883		156		130		3,176		2,561		464		341
Network Power	1,028			1,111		37		101		3,210		3,180		150		268
Climate Technologies	1,125			1,102		222		247		3,007		2,884		518		544
Commercial & Residential Solutions	477			400		98		97		1,422		1,186		292		274
	5,704			5,300		886		846		17,040		15,249		2,488		2,234
Differences in accounting methods						54		59						165		172
Corporate and other						(104	)	(116	)					638		(414	)
Eliminations/Interest	(201		)	(174	)	(40	)	(45	)	(550	)	(482	)	(126	)	(137	)
Total	$	5,503		5,126		796		744		16,490		14,767		3,165		1,855

Industrial Automation intersegment sales for the quarters ended June 30, 2016 and 2015 were $160 million and $184 million, respectively, and year-to-date $440 million and $496 million. Corporate and other for the third quarter of 2016 includes separation costs of $28 million and an $18 million gain on payments received related to dumping duties. The year-to-date change includes separation costs of $83 million, higher incentive stock compensation of $68 million primarily due to an increasing stock price in the current year compared with a decreasing price in the prior year, and overlap of awards, and a $932 million gain on the power transmission solutions divestiture in 2015. See Note 11.