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| Transfers and Servicing of Financial Assets [Abstract] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Accounts Receivable Arrangements | ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE ARRANGEMENTS: The Company has an accounts receivable securitization program to provide additional capital for its operations (the "AR Arrangement"). The AR Arrangement expires on November 1, 2019. Under the terms of the AR Arrangement, the Company’s subsidiary that is the borrower under this facility can borrow up to a maximum of $600,000 based upon eligible trade accounts receivable denominated in United States dollars. The AR Arrangement includes an accordion feature to allow requests for an increase in the lenders' commitment by an additional $120,000. The effective borrowing cost under the AR Arrangement is a blended rate that includes prevailing dealer commercial paper rates and the daily London Interbank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”), plus a program fee of 0.75% per annum based on the used portion of the commitment, and a facility fee of 0.35% per annum payable on the adjusted commitment of the lenders. As of February 28, 2017 and November 30, 2016, there was $298,700 and $262,900, respectively, outstanding under the AR Arrangement. Under the terms of the AR Arrangement, the Company and one of the Company’s subsidiaries sell, on a revolving basis, their receivables (other than certain specifically excluded receivables) to a wholly-owned, bankruptcy-remote subsidiary. The borrowings are funded by pledging all of the rights, title and interest in and to the receivables acquired by the Company's bankruptcy-remote subsidiary as security. Any borrowings under the AR Arrangement are recorded as debt on the Company's Consolidated Balance Sheets. As is customary in trade accounts receivable securitization arrangements like the AR Arrangement, where some of the loans are funded through one or more lender’s affiliated asset-backed commercial paper programs, a credit rating agency's downgrade of the third party issuer of commercial paper or of a back-up liquidity provider (which provides a source of funding if the commercial paper market cannot be accessed) could result in an increase in the Company's cost of borrowing or loss of the Company's financing capacity under these programs if the commercial paper issuer or liquidity back-up provider is not replaced, or if the lender whose commercial paper issuer or liquidity back-up provider is not replaced does not elect to offer the Company an alternative rate. Loss of such financing capacity could have a material adverse effect on the Company's financial condition and results of operations. The Company has an uncommitted supply-chain financing program with a global financial institution under which trade accounts receivable of a certain customer and its affiliates may be acquired, without recourse, by the financial institution. Available capacity under this program is dependent on the level of our trade accounts receivable with this customer and the financial institution’s willingness to purchase such receivables. As of February 28, 2017 and November 30, 2016, accounts receivable sold to and held by the financial institution under this program were $54,132 and $8,988, respectively. During the three months ended February 28, 2017 and February 29, 2016, discount fees of $255 and $116, respectively, related to the sale of trade accounts receivable under this facility were included in “Interest expense and finance charges, net” in the Consolidated Statement of Operations. The Company also has other financing agreements in North America with various financial institutions (“Flooring Companies”) to allow certain customers of the Company to finance their purchases directly with the Flooring Companies. Under these agreements, the Flooring Companies pay to the Company the selling price of products sold to various customers, less a discount, within approximately 15 to 30 days from the date of sale. The Company is contingently liable to repurchase inventory sold under flooring agreements in the event of any default by its customers under the agreement and such inventory being repossessed by the Flooring Companies. Please see Note 16—Commitments and Contingencies for further information. The following table summarizes the net sales financed through the flooring agreements and the flooring fees incurred:
As of February 28, 2017 and November 30, 2016, accounts receivable subject to flooring agreements were $51,080 and $65,099, respectively. SYNNEX Infotec, the Company's Japanese Technology Solutions subsidiary, has arrangements with various banks and financial institutions for the sale and financing of approved accounts receivable and notes receivable. The amounts outstanding under these arrangements that were sold, but not collected, as of February 28, 2017 and November 30, 2016 were $2,582 and $3,564, respectively. |
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