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Receivables | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2015
Receivables |
Receivables | 6.Receivables
|  | September 30, |  | December 31, |
($ in millions) |  | 2015 |  | 2014 |
Trade accounts receivable |  | $ | 989.5 |  | $ | 800.0 |
Less allowance for doubtful accounts |  | (6.2 | ) | (7.0 | )
Net trade accounts receivable |  | 983.3 |  | 793.0 |
Other receivables |  | 114.5 |  | 164.1 |
|  | $ | 1,097.8 |  | $ | 957.1 |
The company has entered into several regional committed and uncommitted accounts receivable factoring programs with multiple 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 $605 million at September 30, 2015. A total of $489.6 million and $197.6 million were sold under these programs as of September 30, 2015, and December 31, 2014, respectively.

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