Current Receivables

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2013

Accounts Receivable, Net, Current [Abstract]

Current Receivables

NOTE 4. CURRENT RECEIVABLES

		Consolidated(a)				GE(b)
December 31 (In millions)		2013		2012		2013		2012
Power & Water	$	3,895	$	2,977	$	2,335	$	1,700
Oil & Gas		5,444		4,656		3,134		1,872
Energy Management		1,540		1,600		686		800
Aviation		4,307		4,756		2,260		2,493
Healthcare		4,398		4,253		2,029		2,012
Transportation		526		485		318		324
Appliances & Lighting		1,337		1,286		273		186
Corporate items & eliminations		388		351		377		343
		21,835		20,364		11,412		9,730
Less Allowance for Losses		(447)		(462)		(442)		(456)
Total	$	21,388	$	19,902	$	10,970	$	9,274

• Included GE industrial customer receivables factored through a GECC affiliate and reported as financing receivables by GECC. See Note 26.
• GE current receivables balances at December 31, 2013 and 2012, before allowance for losses, included $7,441 million and $6,283 million, respectively, from sales of goods and services to customers, and $37 million and $70 million at December 31, 2013 and 2012, respectively, from transactions with associated companies.

GE current receivables of $127 million and $114million at December 31, 2013 and 2012, respectively, arose from sales, principally of Aviation goods and services, on open account to various agencies of the U.S. government. As a percentage of GE revenues, approximately 4% of GE sales of goods and services were to the U.S. government in 2013, 2012 and 2011.