Receivables, Net

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2019

Receivables, Net

Receivables, Net

8.     Receivables, Net

	March 31,		December 31,
($ in millions)	2019		2018
Trade accounts receivable	$	958	$	812
Unbilled receivables		477		478
Less allowance for doubtful accounts		(9)		(10)
Net trade accounts receivable		1,426		1,280
Other receivables		459		522
	$	1,885	$	1,802

The company has entered into several regional committed and uncommitted accounts receivable factoring programs with various financial institutions for certain of its receivables. The programs are accounted for as true sales of the receivables, without recourse to Ball, and had combined limits of approximately $1.2 billion at March 31,  2019, and December 31, 2018. A total of $192 million and $178 million were available for sale under these programs as of March 31,  2019, and December 31, 2018, respectively.

Other receivables include income and sales tax receivables, related party receivables and other miscellaneous receivables. See Note 4 for further details of related party receivables.