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Receivables (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions | 3 Months Ended | 12 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2018 | Dec. 31, 2016
Allowance for Doubtful Accounts Receivable [Roll Forward] |  |
Beginning balance | $ 38.7 |
Additions - charged to expense | 6.1 | $ 8.4
Transfer from (to) allowance for credit losses (see below) | (1.1) | 9.5
Net recoveries, write-offs and other | 0.3 | 3.2
Ending Balance | 44.0 | 17.6
Net long-term customer receivables | 118.3 |
Allowance for long term customer receivables [Roll Forward] |  |
Beginning balance | 47.1 |
Additions - charged to expense | 6.4 | 13.7
Transfer from (to) allowance for doubtful accounts (see above) | 1.1 | (9.5)
Net recoveries, write-offs and other | (0.9) | (6.2)
Ending balance | $ 53.7 | $ 49.1

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- Definition Amount due from customers or clients, more than one year from the balance sheet date, for goods or services that have been delivered or sold in the normal course of business, reduced to the estimated net realizable fair value by an allowance established by the entity of the amount it deems uncertain of collection. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 944 -SubTopic 210 -Section S99 -Paragraph 1 -Subparagraph (SX 210.7-03(5)) -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6879938&loc=d3e572229-122910 Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 210 -SubTopic 10 -Section S99 -Paragraph 1 -Subparagraph (SX 210.5-02(17)) -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6877327&loc=d3e13212-122682 + Details
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