Receivables

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2017

Receivables

Receivables

6.     Receivables

	September 30,		December 31,
($ in millions)	2017		2016
Trade accounts receivable	$	1,435	$	1,169
Less allowance for doubtful accounts		(10)		(11)
Net trade accounts receivable		1,425		1,158
Other receivables		368		333
	$	1,793	$	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 $1 billion at September 30, 2017. A total of $646 million and $596 million were sold under such programs as of September 30, 2017, and December 31, 2016, respectively.