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FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2017
Financial Instruments [Abstract] |
Maximum exposure to credit risk | The Company’s maximum exposure to credit risk at the reporting date is the carrying value of each of the financial assets disclosed as follows:
| As at December 31, 2017 |  | As at December 31, 2016 |
Cash and equivalents |  | $2,234 |  |  | $2,389 |
Accounts receivable | 239 |  | 249 |
Net derivative assets by counterparty | 2 |  | 1 |
|  | $2,475 |  |  | $2,639 |
Expected maturity of significant financial assets and liabilities | The following table outlines the expected maturity of our significant financial assets and liabilities into relevant maturity groupings based on the remaining period from the balance sheet date to the contractual maturity date. As the amounts presented in the table are the contractual undiscounted cash flows, these balances may not agree with the amounts disclosed in the balance sheet.
As at December 31, 2017 |  |  |  |  |
(in $ millions) | Less than 1 year |  | 1 to 3 years |  | 3 to 5 years |  | Over 5 years |  | Total |
Cash and equivalents |  | $2,234 |  |  | $— |  |  | $— |  |  | $— |  |  | $2,234 |
Accounts receivable | 239 |  | — |  | — |  | — |  | 239 |
Derivative assets | 2 |  | 1 |  | — |  | — |  | 3 |
Trade and other payables | 1,059 |  | — |  | — |  | — |  | 1,059 |
Debt | 59 |  | 311 |  | 975 |  | 5,111 |  | 6,456 |
Derivative liabilities | 30 |  | 2 |  | — |  | — |  | 32 |
Other liabilities | 30 |  | 231 |  | 64 |  | 186 |  | 511 |
As at December 31, 2016 |  |  |  |  |
(in $ millions) | Less than 1 year |  | 1 to 3 years |  | 3 to 5 years |  | Over 5 years |  | Total |
Cash and equivalents |  | $2,389 |  |  | $— |  |  | $— |  |  | $— |  |  | $2,389 |
Accounts receivable | 249 |  | — |  | — |  | — |  | 249 |
Derivative assets | 1 |  | 1 |  | — |  | — |  | 2 |
Trade and other payables | 1,084 |  | — |  | — |  | — |  | 1,084 |
Debt | 143 |  | 533 |  | 997 |  | 6,316 |  | 7,989 |
Derivative liabilities | 51 |  | 27 |  | — |  | — |  | 78 |
Other liabilities | 42 |  | 51 |  | 3 |  | 120 |  | 216 |

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- Definition The disclosure of the credit risk exposure. Credit risk exposure is the credit risk inherent in an entity’s financial assets and commitments to extend credit. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef -Note Effective 2018-01-01 -Name IFRS -Number 7 -IssueDate 2017-01-01 -Paragraph 35M -URI http://eifrs.ifrs.org/eifrs/XBRL?type=IFRS&num=7&date=2017-03-01&anchor=para_35M&doctype=Standard -URIDate 2017-03-09 + Details
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