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| **Segment Reporting [Abstract]** |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| Segment Information              | Supplemental segment data and reconciliations to consolidated external reporting for the three months ended March 31 was as follows:(Millions of dollars) 2015Revenues SegmentProfit InterestExpense Depreciationon equipmentleased toothers Provisionforcreditlosses SegmentAssets atMarch 31,2015 CapitalexpendituresNorth America$284 $97 $63 $101 $(4) $13,818 $176Europe and CPF113 35 17 21 13 7,327 20Asia/Pacific80 20 31 5 9 4,586 4Latin America102 24 29 27 6 4,181 24Mining100 29 14 58 (10) 3,013 69Total Segments679 205 154 212 14 32,925 293Unallocated18 (19) 16 — — 1,748 —Timing(8) (11) — — 4 103 1Methodology— 12 (19) — — (221) —Inter-segment Eliminations— — — — — (214) —Total$689 $187 $151 $212 $18 $34,341 $294              2014Revenues SegmentProfit InterestExpense Depreciationon equipmentleased toothers Provisionforcreditlosses SegmentAssets atDecember 31,2014 CapitalexpendituresNorth America$247 $77 $60 $80 $3 $13,661 $130Europe and CPF130 41 24 26 9 7,601 31Asia/Pacific92 38 28 6 7 4,767 10Latin America105 26 32 27 4 4,676 35Mining123 10 18 75 13 3,161 63Total Segments697 192 162 214 36 33,866 269Unallocated21 (13) 12 — — 1,648 —Timing(7) (2) — — 1 120 —Methodology— 5 (12) — — (215) —Inter-segment Eliminations— — — — — (243) —Total$711 $182 $162 $214 $37 $35,176 $269                |

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Tabular disclosure of the profit or loss and total assets for each reportable segment. An entity discloses certain information on each reportable segment if the amounts (a) are included in the measure of segment profit or loss reviewed by the chief operating decision maker or (b) are otherwise regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker, even if not included in that measure of segment profit or loss.
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