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Reorganization and Business Transformation
 12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2019
Restructuring and Related Activities [Abstract]  
Reorganization and Business Transformation Reorganization and Business Transformation
In 2015, the Company announced a plan to realign Teradata’s business by reducing its cost structure and focusing on the Company’s core data and analytics business. This business transformation included exiting the marketing applications business, rationalizing costs, and modifying the Company’s go-to-market approach. No costs were incurred related to this business transformation plan in 2019 and 2018. In 2017, the Company incurred $26 million in costs under this plan.
In June 2018, the Company approved a plan to consolidate certain of its operations, including transitioning its corporate headquarters to San Diego, California from its location in Dayton, Ohio. This plan, which is being executed in connection with Teradata’s comprehensive business transformation from a data warehouse company to a data analytics platform company, is intended to better align the Company’s skills and resources to effectively pursue opportunities in the marketplace. The Company recognized costs of $23 million in 2018 and $14 million in 2019 for employee separation benefits, transition support, facilities lease related costs, outside service, legal and other exit-related costs. The employee separation benefit costs are being expensed over the time period that the employees have to work to earn them. As of December 31, 2019, the Company incurred costs and charges of approximately $37 million related to the plan. The majority of the costs were attributable to the Americas reporting unit and recorded as selling, general and administrative expenses with no impact on our segment gross profit. The Company expects the remainder of the actions to be completed by the first half of 2020.
Cash paid in 2018 related to the plan listed above was $11 million. The 2019 activity and the reserves related to the plan are as follows:
In millions
Balance at
December 31, 2018
 
Expense accruals
 
Cash payments
 
Balance at
December 31, 2019
Employee separation benefits costs related to headquarter transition and business transformation
$
11

 
$
5

 
$
(15
)
 
$
1

Transition support and other exit related costs for the headquarter transition and business transformation
1

 
3

 
(4
)
 
—

Total
$
12

 
$
8

 
$
(19
)
 
$
1


In addition, the Company incurred $6 million of accelerated amortization in 2019 for right-of-use assets associated with the lease on its prior corporate headquarters. The remaining lease liability is included in our operating lease obligations as of December 31, 2019 and is not included in the table above.