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Stockholders' Equity
 12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2019
Equity [Abstract]  
Stockholders' Equity Stockholders' Equity
The changes in the components of AOCI attributable to Kimberly-Clark, net of tax, are as follows:
 
 
Unrealized Translation
 
Defined Benefit Pension Plans
 
Other Postretirement Benefit Plans
 
Cash Flow Hedges and Other
Balance as of December 31, 2017
 
$
(1,864
)
 
$
(976
)
 
$
(39
)
 
$
(40
)
Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications
 
(416
)
 
(51
)
 
58

 
42

(Income) loss reclassified from AOCI
 
1

 
135

(a)
(2
)
(a)
9

Net current period other comprehensive income (loss)
 
(415
)
 
84

 
56

 
51

Tax effects reclassified from AOCI
 
(18
)
 
(125
)
 
(5
)
 
(8
)
Balance as of December 31, 2018
 
(2,297
)
 
(1,017
)
 
12

 
3

Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications
 
26

 
(27
)
 
(24
)
 
(22
)
(Income) loss reclassified from AOCI
 
—

 
65

(a)
(1
)
(a)
(12
)
Net current period other comprehensive income (loss)
 
26

 
38

 
(25
)
 
(34
)
Balance as of December 31, 2019
 
$
(2,271
)
 
$
(979
)
 
$
(13
)
 
$
(31
)

(a)
Included in computation of net periodic pension and other postretirement benefits costs (see Note 6).
Included in the above defined benefit pension plans and other postretirement benefit plans balances as of December 31, 2019 is $1,000 and $8 of unrecognized net actuarial loss and unrecognized net prior service credit, respectively.
The changes in the components of AOCI attributable to Kimberly-Clark, including the tax effect, are as follows:
 
Year Ended December 31
 
2019
 
2018
 
2017
Unrealized translation
$
21

 
$
(408
)
 
$
398

Tax effect(a)
5

 
(25
)
 
89

 
26

 
(433
)
 
487

 
 
 
 
 
 
Defined benefit pension plans
 
 
 
 
 
Unrecognized net actuarial loss and transition amount
 
 
 
 
 
Funded status recognition
(17
)
 
(57
)
 
159

Amortization
44

 
47

 
56

Settlements and curtailments
46

 
134

 
7

Currency and other
(13
)
 
29

 
(66
)
 
60

 
153

 
156

Unrecognized prior service cost/credit
 
 
 
 
 
Funded status recognition
(1
)
 
(22
)
 
2

Amortization
(5
)
 
(8
)
 
(8
)
Curtailments
(1
)
 
2

 
—

Currency and other
(2
)
 
(1
)
 
3

 
(9
)
 
(29
)
 
(3
)
Tax effect(a)
(13
)
 
(165
)
 
(32
)
 
38

 
(41
)
 
121

Other postretirement benefit plans
 
 
 
 
 
Unrecognized net actuarial loss and transition amount and other
(35
)
 
79

 
(11
)
Tax effect(a)
10

 
(28
)
 
3

 
(25
)
 
51

 
(8
)
Cash flow hedges and other
 
 
 
 
 
Recognition of effective portion of hedges
(23
)
 
56

 
(76
)
Amortization
(16
)
 
12

 
18

Currency and other
(1
)
 
(2
)
 
(2
)
Tax effect(a)
6

 
(23
)
 
15

 
(34
)
 
43

 
(45
)
 
 
 
 
 
 
Change in AOCI
$
5

 
$
(380
)
 
$
555


(a) The Tax effect for Unrealized translation, Defined benefit pension plans, Other postretirement benefit plans and Cash flow hedges and other includes reductions of $18, $125, $5 and $8, respectively, for stranded tax effects reclassified from AOCI to Retained earnings in 2018.
Amounts are reclassified from AOCI into Cost of products sold, Nonoperating expense, Interest expense, or Other (income) and expense, net, as applicable, in the consolidated income statement.
Net unrealized currency gains or losses resulting from the translation of assets and liabilities of foreign subsidiaries, except those in highly inflationary economies, are recorded in AOCI. For these operations, changes in exchange rates generally do not affect cash flows; therefore, unrealized translation adjustments are recorded in AOCI rather than net income. Upon sale or substantially complete liquidation of any of these subsidiaries, the applicable unrealized translation adjustment would be removed from AOCI and reported as part of the gain or loss on the sale or liquidation. The change in unrealized translation in 2019 is primarily due to the strengthening of foreign currencies versus the U.S. dollar. Also included in unrealized translation amounts are the effects of foreign exchange rate changes on intercompany balances of a long-term investment nature and transactions designated as hedges of net foreign investments.