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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2016
Accounting Policies [Abstract] |
Summary of Financing Receivables | The following table contains a summary of the Company’s financing receivables by type and the method by which the Company monitors the credit quality of its financing receivables on a quarterly basis.
Class of Financing Receivable |  | Credit Quality Indicator |  | Grade |  | December 31, 2016 $ |  | December 31, 2015 $
Advances to equity accounted investments |  | Other internal metrics |  | Performing |  | 10,480 |  | 13,980 |
|  |  |  |  |  | 10,480 |  | 13,980 |
Summarizes Change in Capitalized Dry-Docking Activity | The following table summarizes the change in the Company’s capitalized dry docking costs, from January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2016:
| Year Ended December 31,
| 2016 $ |  | 2015 $ |  | 2014 $
Balance at the beginning of the year | 62,146 |  |  | 35,509 |  |  | 29,269 |
Cost incurred for dry docking | 9,340 |  |  | 39,617 |  |  | 17,072 |
Dry-dock amortization | (18,736 | ) |  | (12,866 | ) |  | (10,832 | )
Vessel sales | (3,452 | ) |  | (114 | ) |  | — |
Balance at the end of the year | 49,298 |  |  | 62,146 |  |  | 35,509 |

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- Definition Tabular disclosure of financing receivables by credit quality indicator. The credit quality indicator is a statistic about the credit quality of financing receivables. Examples include, but not limited to, consumer credit risk scores, credit-rating-agency ratings, an entity's internal credit risk grades, loan-to-value ratios, collateral, collection experience and other internal metrics. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 310 -SubTopic 10 -Section 55 -Paragraph 19 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=82894031&loc=SL6953803-111525 Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 310 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 29 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=84173941&loc=SL6953659-111524 + Details
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