Receivables

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2017

Receivables

Receivables

6.     Receivables

	March 31,		December 31,
($ in millions)	2017		2016
Trade accounts receivable	$	1,365	$	1,169
Less allowance for doubtful accounts		(11)		(11)
Net trade accounts receivable		1,354		1,158
Other receivables		341		333
	$	1,695	$	1,491

The company has entered into several regional committed and uncommitted accounts receivable factoring programs with various financial institutions for certain receivables of the company. The programs are accounted for as true sales of the receivables, without recourse to Ball, and had combined limits of approximately $865 million at March 31, 2017. A total of $542 million and $596 million were sold under these programs as of March 31, 2017, and December 31, 2016, respectively.