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Schedule II - Valuation and Qualifying Accounts | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2013
Valuation and Qualifying Accounts [Abstract] |
SCHEDULE II - VALUATION AND QUALIFYING ACCOUNTS | THE AES CORPORATION SCHEDULE II VALUATION AND QUALIFYING ACCOUNTS (IN MILLIONS)
|  | Balance at Beginning of the Period |  | Charged to Cost and Expense |  | Amounts Written off |  | Translation Adjustment |  | Balance at the End of the Period
Allowance for accounts receivables |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
(current and noncurrent) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Year ended December 31, 2011 |  | $ | 212 |  |  | $ | 26 |  |  | $ | (41 | ) |  | $ | (22 | ) |  | $ | 175 |
Year ended December 31, 2012 |  | 175 |  |  | 114 |  |  | (79 | ) |  | (15 | ) |  | 195 |
Year ended December 31, 2013 |  | 195 |  |  | 38 |  |  | (77 | ) |  | (22 | ) |  | 134 |

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- Definition The entire disclosure for any allowance and reserve accounts (their beginning and ending balances, as well as a reconciliation by type of activity during the period). Alternatively, disclosure of the required information may be within the footnotes to the financial statements or a supplemental schedule to the financial statements. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 235 -SubTopic 10 -Section S99 -Paragraph 4 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=26873400&loc=d3e24092-122690 Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher SEC -Name Regulation S-X (SX) -Number 210 -Section 09 -Article 12 + Details
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