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Segment Information | 9 Months Ended
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Segment Information |
Segment Information | Note 14. Segment Information We operate in, and report financial information for, the following five business segments: Textron Aviation, Bell, Textron Systems, Industrial and Finance. Segment profit is an important measure used for evaluating performance and for decision-making purposes. Segment profit for the manufacturing segments excludes interest expense, certain corporate expenses and special charges. The measurement for the Finance segment includes interest income and expense along with intercompany interest income and expense. Our revenues by segment, along with a reconciliation of segment profit to income from continuing operations before income taxes, are as follows:
|  | Three Months Ended |  | Nine Months Ended
(In millions) |  | September 30, 2017 |  | October 1, 2016 |  | September 30, 2017 |  | October 1, 2016
Revenues |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Textron Aviation | $ | 1,154 | $ | 1,198 | $ | 3,295 | $ | 3,485
Bell |  | 812 |  | 734 |  | 2,334 |  | 2,352
Textron Systems |  | 458 |  | 413 |  | 1,351 |  | 1,224
Industrial |  | 1,042 |  | 886 |  | 3,147 |  | 2,842
Finance |  | 18 |  | 20 |  | 54 |  | 60
Total revenues | $ | 3,484 | $ | 3,251 | $ | 10,181 | $ | 9,963
Segment Profit |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Textron Aviation | $ | 93 | $ | 100 | $ | 183 | $ | 254
Bell |  | 106 |  | 97 |  | 301 |  | 260
Textron Systems |  | 40 |  | 44 |  | 102 |  | 133
Industrial |  | 49 |  | 66 |  | 207 |  | 256
Finance |  | 7 |  | 3 |  | 16 |  | 15
Segment profit |  | 295 |  | 310 |  | 809 |  | 918
Corporate expenses and other, net |  | (30) |  | (53) |  | (88) |  | (116)
Interest expense, net for Manufacturing group |  | (37) |  | (35) |  | (107) |  | (105)
Special charges |  | (25) |  | (115) |  | (75) |  | (115)
Income from continuing operations before income taxes | $ | 203 | $ | 107 | $ | 539 | $ | 582

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- Definition The entire disclosure for reporting segments including data and tables. Reportable segments include those that meet any of the following quantitative thresholds a) it's reported revenue, including sales to external customers and intersegment sales or transfers is 10 percent or more of the combined revenue, internal and external, of all operating segments b) the absolute amount of its reported profit or loss is 10 percent or more of the greater, in absolute amount of 1) the combined reported profit of all operating segments that did not report a loss or 2) the combined reported loss of all operating segments that did report a loss c) its assets are 10 percent or more of the combined assets of all operating segments. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2134510 + Details
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