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Energy Services Accounts Receivable Securitization Facility | 3 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2018
Transfers and Servicing [Abstract] |
Energy Services Accounts Receivable Securitization Facility | Note 9 — Energy Services Accounts Receivable Securitization Facility Energy Services has a Receivables Facility currently scheduled to expire in October 2019. The Receivables Facility, as amended, provides Energy Services with the ability to borrow up to $150 of eligible receivables during the period November to April and up to $75 of eligible receivables during the period May to October. Energy Services uses the Receivables Facility to fund working capital, margin calls under commodity futures contracts, capital expenditures, dividends and for general corporate purposes. Under the Receivables Facility, Energy Services transfers, on an ongoing basis and without recourse, its trade accounts receivable to its wholly owned, special purpose subsidiary, ESFC, which is consolidated for financial statement purposes. ESFC, in turn, has sold and, subject to certain conditions, may from time to time, sell an undivided interest in some or all of the receivables to a major bank. Amounts sold to the bank are reflected as “Short-term borrowings” on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets. ESFC was created and has been structured to isolate its assets from creditors of Energy Services and its affiliates, including UGI. Trade receivables sold to the bank remain on the Company’s balance sheet and the Company reflects a liability equal to the amount advanced by the bank. The Company records interest expense on amounts owed to the bank. Energy Services continues to service, administer and collect trade receivables on behalf of the bank, as applicable. Losses on sales of receivables to the bank during the three months ended December 31, 2018 and 2017, which are included in “Interest expense” on the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income, were not material. Information regarding the trade receivables transferred to ESFC and the amounts sold to the bank for the three months ended December 31, 2018 and 2017, as well as the balance of ESFC trade receivables at December 31, 2018, September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, is as follows:
|  | Three Months Ended December 31,
|  | 2018 |  | 2017
Trade receivables transferred to ESFC during the period |  | $ | 392.6 |  |  | $ | 270.6 |
ESFC trade receivables sold to the bank during the period |  | $ | 25.0 |  |  | $ | 48.0 |
|  | December 31, 2018 |  | September 30, 2018 |  | December 31, 2017
ESFC trade receivables — end of period (a) |  | $ | 135.4 |  |  | $ | 65.0 |  |  | $ | 101.0 |
(a) | At December 31, 2018, September 30, 2018, and December 31, 2017, the amounts of ESFC trade receivables sold to the bank were $10.0, $2.0 and $45.0, respectively. Amounts sold to the bank are reflected as “Short-term borrowings” on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets.

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- Definition The entire disclosure for a transferor's continuing involvement in financial assets that it has transferred in a securitization or asset-backed financing arrangement, the nature of any restrictions on assets reported by an entity in its statement of financial position that relate to a transferred financial asset (including the carrying amounts of such assets), how servicing assets and servicing liabilities are reported, and (for securitization or asset-backed financing arrangements accounted for as sales) when a transferor has continuing involvement with the transferred financial assets and transfers of financial assets accounted for as secured borrowings, how the transfer of financial assets affects an entity's financial position, financial performance, and cash flows. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 860 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2197590 + Details
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