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CURRENT RECEIVABLES
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2017
Receivables [Abstract]  
CURRENT RECEIVABLES
CURRENT RECEIVABLES
 
Consolidated(a)(b)
 
GE(c)
(In millions)
June 30, 2017

December 31, 2016

 
June 30, 2017

December 31, 2016

 
 
 
 
 
 
Current receivables
$
22,407

$
24,935

 
$
12,647

$
13,562

Allowance for losses
(960
)
(858
)
 
(949
)
(847
)
Total
$
21,447

$
24,076

 
$
11,697

$
12,715

(a)
Included GE industrial customer receivables sold to a GE Capital affiliate and recorded on GE Capital’s balance sheet of $10,599 million and $12,304 million at June 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016, respectively. The consolidated total included a deferred purchase price receivable of $374 million and $483 million at June 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016, respectively, related to our Receivables Facility.
(b)
In order to manage the credit exposure, the Company sells additional current receivables to third parties outside the Receivables Facility, substantially all of which are serviced by the Company. The outstanding balance of these current receivables was $2,532 million and $3,821 million at June 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016, respectively. Of these balances, $1,187 million and $2,504 million was sold by GE to GE Capital prior to the sale to third parties at June 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016, respectively. At June 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016, our maximum exposure to loss under the limited recourse arrangements is $143 million and $215 million, respectively.
(c)
GE current receivables balances at June 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016, before allowance for losses, included $7,955 million and $8,927 million, respectively, from sales of goods and services to customers. The remainder of the balances primarily relates to supplier advances, revenue sharing programs and other non-income based tax receivables.

RECEIVABLES FACILITY

The Company has a $3,000 million revolving Receivables Facility under which receivables are sold directly to third-party purchasers. The third-party purchasers have no recourse to other assets of the Company in the event of non-payment by the debtors. Where the purchasing entity is a bank multi-seller commercial paper conduit, assets transferred by other parties to that entity form a majority of the entity’s assets. Upon sale of the receivables, we receive proceeds of cash and a deferred purchase price (DPP). The DPP is an interest in specified assets of the purchasers (the receivables sold by GE Capital) that entitles GE Capital to the residual cash flows of those specified assets.

During the six months ended June 30, 2017, GE Industrial sold current receivables of $9,667 million to GE Capital, which GE Capital sold immediately to third parties under the Receivables Facility. GE Capital continues to service the current receivables for the purchasers. The Company received total cash collections of $9,309 million on previously sold current receivables owed to the purchasing entities. The purchasing entities reinvested $8,036 million of those collections to purchase newly originated current receivables from the Company and paid $297 million to reduce their DPP obligation to the Company.

During the six months ended June 30, 2017, GE Industrial recognized a loss of $64 million resulting from time value discount on the sale of these receivables to GE Capital. GE Capital recovered substantially all of this loss on the sale of the receivables to third party purchasers.

At June 30, 2017, GE Capital, under the Receivables Facility, serviced $2,933 million of transferred receivables that remain outstanding.

Given the short-term nature of the underlying receivables, discount rates and prepayments are not factors in determining the value of the DPP. Collections on the DPP are presented within Cash flows from operating activities in the consolidated column in the Statement of Cash Flows. As the performance of the transferred current receivables is similar to the performance of our other current receivables, delinquencies are not expected to be significant.