Strategic plan - We may encounter challenges to executing our plan to separate GE Aerospace and GE Vernova into independent companies, or to completing the plan within the timeframes we anticipate, and we may not realize some or all of the expected benefits of the separations.
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In November 2021, we announced our plan to form three independent public companies from our (i) Aerospace business, (ii) HealthCare business and (iii) portfolio of energy businesses, including our Renewable Energy and Power businesses, which we plan to combine and refer to as GE Vernova, to better position those businesses to deliver long-term growth and create value for customers, investors, and employees. The GE HealthCare business separation in January 2023 was, and the planned GE Vernova business separation is expected to be, effected through spin-offs by GE that are intended to be tax-free for the Company and its shareholders for U.S. federal income tax purposes and with all three resulting companies having investment-grade credit ratings.
The GE Vernova separation transaction will be subject to the satisfaction of a number of customary conditions, including, among others, final approvals by GE’s Board of Directors, receipt of tax rulings in certain jurisdictions and/or tax opinions from external counsel, the filing with the SEC and effectiveness of a Form 10 registration statement, and establishment of the capital structures and credit ratings for both GE Vernova and the remainder of GE following the spin-off. A failure to satisfy required conditions, or disruptions in market conditions, could delay the completion of the GE Vernova separation transaction for a significant period of time or prevent it from occurring at all. Additionally, the GE Vernova separation transaction is complex in nature, and business, market or other developments or changes may affect our ability to complete the separation transaction as currently expected, within the anticipated timeframe or at all.
These or other developments could cause us not to realize some or all of the expected benefits, or to realize them on a different timeline than expected. If we are unable to complete the GE Vernova separation, we will have incurred costs without realizing the benefits of such transaction. In addition, the terms and conditions of the required regulatory authorizations and consents that are granted, if any, may impose requirements, limitations or costs, or place restrictions on the conduct of GE Vernova or GE Aerospace as independent companies. In addition, although we intend for the GE Vernova separation transaction to be tax-free to the Company and its shareholders for U.S. federal income tax purposes, we expect to incur non-U.S. cash taxes on the preparatory restructuring and may also incur non-cash tax expense including potential impairments of deferred tax assets.
Moreover, there can be no assurance that the GE Vernova spin-off will qualify as tax-free for U.S. purposes for the Company or its shareholders. If either of the separation transactions were ultimately determined to be taxable, we would incur a significant tax liability, while the distributions to the Company’s shareholders would become taxable and the new independent companies might incur income tax liabilities as well. Furthermore, there can be no assurance that each separate company will be successful as a standalone public company.
Whether or not the GE Vernova separation transaction is completed, our businesses may face material challenges in connection with executing this plan, including the diversion of management’s attention from ongoing business concerns and impact on the businesses of the Company; appropriately allocating assets and liabilities among GE Aerospace and GE Vernova; maintaining employee morale and retaining and attracting key management and other employees; retaining existing or attracting new business and operational relationships, including with customers, suppliers, employees and other counterparties; assigning customer contracts, guaranties and other contracts and instruments to each of the businesses, and obtaining releases from the counterparties to those contracts or beneficiaries of those instruments as required; providing financial or credit support for new business; assigning intellectual property to each of the businesses; establishing transition service agreements and standalone readiness for key functions; and potential negative reactions from investors or the financial community.
In particular, to support the GE Vernova businesses in selling products and services globally, GE often enters into contracts on behalf of GE Vernova or issues parent company guarantees or trade finance instruments supporting the performance of what currently are subsidiary legal entities transacting directly with customers, in addition to providing similar credit support for some non-customer-related activities of GE Vernova (collectively, GE credit support). For GE credit support that is not novated to GE Vernova with a release of GE, the failure of GE Vernova (or of a subsequent acquiror of all or a portion of GE Vernova's business) to perform under any relevant contract following the spin-off could result in claims for damages or other relief against GE.
The total amount of GE Vernova business that the GE credit support relates to is significant, and GE will likely continue to have exposure that is based on the continued performance of the relevant contracts for some years following completion of the spin-off. See the Other Items - Parent Company Credit Support section within MD&A for additional information. In addition, GE for the past several years has been undertaking various restructuring and business transformation actions (including workforce reductions, global facility consolidations and other cost reduction initiatives and the GE HealthCare separation) that have entailed changes across our organizational structure, senior leadership, culture, functional alignment, outsourcing and other areas. These pose risks in the form of personnel capacity constraints and institutional knowledge loss that could lead to missed performance or financial targets, loss of key personnel and harm to our reputation, and these risks are heightened with the additional interdependent actions that have been and will continue to be needed to complete the planned separation of GE Vernova.
Moreover, completion of the GE HealthCare separation resulted, and completion of the GE Vernova separation will result, in independent public companies that are smaller, less diversified companies with more limited businesses concentrated in their respective industries than GE was prior to the separation transactions. As a result, each company will be more vulnerable to global economic trends, geopolitical risks, demand or supply shocks, and changing industry or market conditions, which could have a material adverse effect on its business, financial condition, cash flows and results of operations. In addition, the diversification of revenues, costs, and cash flows will diminish, such that each company’s results of operations, cash flows, working capital, effective tax rate, and financing requirements may be subject to increased volatility and its ability to execute capital allocation plans, fund capital expenditures and investments, pay dividends and meet debt obligations and other liabilities may be diminished.
Each of the separate companies will also incur ongoing costs, including costs of operating as independent public companies, that the separated businesses will no longer be able to share. Additionally, we cannot predict whether at the time of separation or over time the market value of our common stock and the common stock of each of the new independent companies after the separation transactions will be, in the aggregate, less than, equal to or greater than the market value of our common stock prior to the separation transactions. Investors holding our common stock may also sell the common stock of any of the new independent companies that do not match their investment strategies, which may cause a decline in the market price of such common stock.
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Prior heading: Strategic plan - We may encounter challenges to executing our plan to separate GE into three public companies, or to completing the plan within the timeframes we anticipate, and we may not realize some or all of the expected benefits of the separations.
In November 2021, we announced our plan to form three independent public companies from our (i) Aerospace business, (ii) HealthCare business and (iii) portfolio of energy businesses that businesses, including our Renewable Energy and Power businesses, which we plan to combine and refer to as GE Vernova (Renewable Energy, Power, Digital and Energy Financial Services), Vernova, to better position those businesses to deliver long-term growth and create value for customers, investors, and employees. In January 2023, our HealthCare business was spun off as GE HealthCare. The GE HealthCare business separation in January 2023 was, and the planned GE Vernova business separation is expected to be, effected through spin-offs by GE that are intended to be tax-free for the Company and its shareholders for U.S. federal income tax purposes and with all three resulting companies having investment grade investment-grade credit ratings. The GE Vernova separation transaction will be subject to the satisfaction of a number of customary conditions, including, among others, final approvals by GE’s Board of Directors, receipt of tax rulings in certain jurisdictions and/or tax opinions from external counsel, the filing with the SEC and effectiveness of a Form 10 registration statement, and establishment of the capital structures and credit ratings for both GE Vernova and the remainder of GE following the spin-off. A failure to satisfy required conditions, or disruptions in market conditions, could delay the completion of the GE Vernova separation transaction for a significant period of time or prevent it from occurring at all. Additionally, the GE Vernova separation transaction is complex in nature, and business, market or other developments or changes may affect our ability to complete the separation transaction as currently expected, within the anticipated timeframe or at all. These or other developments could cause us not to realize some or all of the expected benefits, or to realize them on a different timeline than expected. If we are unable to complete the GE Vernova separation, we will have incurred costs without realizing the benefits of such transaction. In addition, the terms and conditions of the required regulatory authorizations and consents that are granted, if any, may impose requirements, limitations or costs, or place restrictions on the conduct of GE Vernova or GE Aerospace as independent companies. In addition, although we intend for the GE Vernova separation transaction to be tax-free to the Company and its shareholders for U.S. federal income tax purposes, we expect to incur non-U.S. cash taxes on the preparatory restructuring and may also incur non-cash tax expense including potential impairments of deferred tax assets. Moreover, there can be no assurance that either of the separation transactions GE Vernova spin-off will qualify as tax-free for U.S. purposes for the Company or its shareholders. If either of the separation transactions were ultimately determined to be taxable, we would incur a significant tax liability, while the distributions to the Company’s shareholders would become taxable and the new independent companies might incur income tax liabilities as well. Furthermore, there can be no assurance that each separate company will be successful as a standalone public company. Whether or not the GE Vernova separation transaction is completed, our businesses may face material challenges as a result of the GE HealthCare separation and in connection with the GE Vernova separation, executing this plan, including the diversion of management’s attention from ongoing business concerns and impact on the businesses of the Company; appropriately allocating assets and liabilities among GE Aerospace and GE Vernova; maintaining employee morale and retaining and attracting key management and other employees; retaining existing or attracting new business and operational relationships, including with customers, suppliers, employees and other counterparties; assigning customer contracts, guaranties and other contracts and instruments to each of the businesses, and obtaining releases from the counterparties to those contracts or beneficiaries of those instruments; instruments as required; providing financial or credit support for new business; assigning intellectual property to each of the businesses; establishing transition service agreements and standalone readiness for key functions; and potential negative reactions from investors or the financial community. In particular, to support the GE Vernova businesses in selling products and services globally, GE often enters into contracts on behalf of GE Vernova or issues parent company guarantees or trade finance instruments supporting the performance of what currently are subsidiary legal entities transacting directly with customers, in addition to providing similar credit support for some non-customer-related activities of GE Vernova (collectively, GE credit support). For GE credit support that is not novated to GE Vernova with a release of GE, the failure of GE Vernova (or of a subsequent acquiror of all or a portion of GE Vernova's business) to perform under any relevant contract following the spin-off could result in claims for damages or other relief against GE. The total amount of GE Vernova business that the GE credit support relates to is significant, and GE will likely continue to have exposure that is based on the continued performance of the relevant contracts for some years following completion of the spin-off. See the Other Items - Parent Company Credit Support section within MD&A for additional information. In addition, GE for the past several years has been undertaking various restructuring and business transformation actions (including workforce reductions, global facility consolidations and other cost reduction initiatives, initiatives and the GE HealthCare separation) that have entailed changes across our organizational structure, senior leadership, culture, functional alignment, outsourcing and other areas. These pose risks in the form of personnel capacity constraints and institutional knowledge loss that could lead to missed performance or financial targets, loss of key personnel and harm to our reputation, and these risks are heightened with the additional interdependent actions that have been and will continue to be needed to complete the planned separation of GE Vernova. Moreover, completion of the GE HealthCare separation has resulted, and completion of the GE Vernova separation will result result, in independent public companies that are smaller, less diversified companies with more limited businesses concentrated in their respective industries than GE was prior to the separation transactions. As a result, each company may will be more vulnerable to global economic trends, geopolitical risks, demand or supply shocks, and changing industry or market conditions, which could have a material adverse effect on its business, financial condition, cash flows and results of operations. In addition, the diversification of revenues, costs, and cash flows will diminish, such that each company’s results of operations, cash flows, working capital, effective tax rate, and financing requirements may be subject to increased volatility and its ability to execute of capital allocation plans, fund capital expenditures and investments, pay dividends and meet debt obligations and other liabilities may be diminished. Each of the separate companies will also incur ongoing costs, including costs of operating as independent public companies, that the separated businesses will no longer be able to share. Additionally, we cannot predict whether at the time of separation or over time the market value of our common stock and the common stock of each of the new independent companies after the separation transactions will be, in the aggregate, less than, equal to or greater than the market value of our common stock prior to the separation transactions. Investors holding our common stock may also sell the common stock of any of the new independent companies that do not match their investment strategies, which may cause a decline in the market price of such common stock. Any decline in the market price of GE HealthCare common stock will also affect the value of our retained equity ownership in that company and could affect the timing and tax treatment of our disposition of that stake.stock.
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Global macro-environment - Our financial performance and growth are subject to risks related to global economic, political and geopolitical developments or other disruptions to the economy or our business sectors.
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We operate in virtually every part of the world, serve customers in over 160 countries and received 57% of our revenues for 2023 from outside the United States. Our operations and the execution of our business plans and strategies are subject to the effects of global economic trends, geopolitical risks and demand or supply shocks from events such as war or international conflict, a major terrorist attack, natural disasters or actual or threatened public health pandemics or other emergencies. Our operations and performance are also affected by local and regional economic environments, supply chain constraints and policies in the U.S. and other markets that we serve, including factors such as inflationary pressures in many markets, increased interest rates from recent historic lows, economic growth rates, the availability of skilled labor, monetary policy, exchange rates and currency volatility, commodity prices and sovereign debt levels.
For example, inflationary pressures have caused and may continue to cause many of our material and labor costs to increase, which adversely affects our profitability and cash flows, particularly when we are unable to increase customer contract values or pricing to offset those pressures. Deterioration of economic conditions or outlooks, such as lower rates of investment, lower economic growth, recession or fears of recession in the U.S., China, Europe or other key markets, may adversely affect the demand for or profitability of our products and services, and the impact from developments outside the U.S. on our business performance can be significant given the extent of our global activities. Increased geopolitical tensions and outbreaks of armed conflict can also adversely impact our businesses, both directly or by adversely affecting economic activity globally or in particular regions or countries.
For example, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in early 2022 and related political and economic consequences, such as sanctions and other measures imposed by the European Union, the U.S. and other countries and organizations in response, have caused and may continue to cause disruption and instability in global markets, supply chains and industries that negatively impact our businesses, financial condition and results of operations and pose reputational risks. More recently, there is risk of wider conflict in the Middle East that could have significant adverse impacts on the region and business activity in addition to the humanitarian and other consequences of the current conflict. In addition, political changes and trends such as populism, protectionism, economic nationalism and sentiment toward multinational companies, as well as tariffs, export controls, restrictions on outbound investment or other trade barriers, sanctions, technical or local content regulations, currency controls, or changes to tax or other laws and policies, have been and may continue to be disruptive and costly to our businesses.
These can interfere with our global operating model, supply chain, production costs, customer relationships and competitive position. Further escalation of any specific trade tensions, including intensified decoupling between the U.S. and China, or in global trade conflict more broadly could be harmful to global economic growth or to our business in or with China or other countries. We also do business in many emerging market jurisdictions where economic, political and legal risks are heightened and the operating environments are complex.
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Prior heading: Global macro-environment - Our growth is subject to global economic, political and geopolitical risks.
We operate in virtually every part of the world, serve customers in over 170 160 countries and received 57% of our revenues for 2022 2023 from outside the United States. Our operations and the execution of our business plans and strategies are subject to the effects of global economic trends, geopolitical risks and demand or supply shocks from events such as war or international conflict, a major terrorist attack, natural disasters or actual or threatened public health emergencies (such as COVID-19, including virus variants and resurgences pandemics or other emergencies. Our operations and responses to those). They performance are also affected by local and regional economic environments, supply chain constraints and policies in the U.S. and other markets that we serve, including factors such as continuing inflationary pressures in many markets, continuing increases in increased interest rates from recent historic lows, economic growth rates, the availability of skilled labor, monetary policy, exchange rates and currency volatility, commodity prices and sovereign debt levels. For example, ongoing inflationary pressures have caused and may continue to cause many of our material and labor costs to increase, which can adversely affect affects our profitability and cash flows, particularly when we are unable to increase customer contract values or pricing to offset those pressures. At Deterioration of economic conditions or outlooks, such as lower rates of investment, lower economic growth, recession or fears of recession in the same time, U.S., China, Europe or other key markets, may adversely affect the demand for or profitability of our products and services, and the impact from developments outside the U.S. on our business performance can be significant given the extent of our global activities. Increased geopolitical tensions and outbreaks of armed conflict can also adversely impact our businesses, both directly or by adversely affecting economic activity globally or in particular regions or countries. For example, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in early 2022 and related political and economic consequences, such as sanctions and other measures imposed by the European Union, the U.S. and other countries and organizations in response, have also caused and may continue to cause disruption and instability in global markets, supply chains and industries that negatively impact our businesses, financial condition and results of operations and pose reputational risks. Further deterioration of economic conditions or outlooks, such as lower rates of investment, lower economic growth, recession or fears More recently, there is risk of recession wider conflict in the U.S., China, Europe or other key markets, may adversely affect Middle East that could have significant adverse impacts on the demand for or profitability of our products and services, region and the impact from developments outside the U.S. on our business performance can be significant given activity in addition to the extent humanitarian and other consequences of our global activities. the current conflict. In addition, political changes and trends such as populism, protectionism, economic nationalism and sentiment toward multinational companies, as well as tariffs, export controls, restrictions on outbound investment or other trade barriers, sanctions, technical or local content regulations, currency controls, or changes to tax or other laws and policies, have been and may continue to be disruptive and costly to our businesses. These can interfere with our global operating model, supply chain, production costs, customer relationships and competitive position. Further escalation of any specific trade tensions, including intensified decoupling between the U.S. and China, or in global trade conflict more broadly could be harmful to global economic growth or to our business in or with China or other countries. We also do business in many emerging market jurisdictions where economic, political and legal risks are heightened and the operating environments are complex.
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Energy transition - The strategic priorities and financial performance of many of our businesses are subject to market and other dynamics related to efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, which can pose risks in addition to opportunities.
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Given the nature of our businesses and the industries we serve, we must anticipate and respond to market, technological, regulatory and other changes driven by broader trends related to greenhouse gas emission reduction efforts in response to climate change and energy security. These changes present both risks and opportunities for our businesses, many of which provide products and services to customers in sectors like power generation and commercial aviation that have historically been carbon intensive and we expect will remain important to efforts globally to lower greenhouse gas emissions for decades to come. For example, the significant decreases in recent years in the levelized cost of energy for renewable sources of power generation (such as wind and solar), along with ongoing changes in government, investor, customer and consumer policies, commitments, preferences and considerations related to climate change, in some cases have adversely affected, and may continue to affect, the demand for and the competitiveness of products and services related to fossil fuel-based power generation, including sales of new gas turbines and the utilization and servicing needs for existing gas power plants that are unmitigated with capabilities such as hydrogen or carbon capture.
Continued shifts toward greater penetration by renewables in both new capacity additions and the proportionate share of power generation, particularly depending on the pace and timeframe for such shifts across different markets globally, could have a material adverse effect on the performance of our Power business and our consolidated results. While the currently anticipated market growth and power generation share for renewable energy is expected to be favorable for our wind businesses over time, we face uncertainties related to future levels and timeframes of government subsidies and credits (including the impact of the Inflation Reduction Act and other policies), significant price competition among wind equipment manufacturers, dynamics between onshore and offshore wind power, potential further consolidation in the wind industry, competition with solar power-based and other sources of renewable energy and the pace at which power grids are modernized to maintain reliability with higher levels of renewables penetration.
The achievement of deep decarbonization goals for the power sector over the coming decades is likely to depend in part on technologies that are not yet deployed or widely adopted today but that may become more important over time (such as hydrogen-based power generation, carbon capture and sequestration technologies, small modular or other advanced nuclear power and grid-scale batteries or other storage solutions). Successfully navigating these changes will require significant investments in power grids and other infrastructure, research and development and new technology and products, both by GE and third parties. Similar dynamics exist in the aviation sector, where greenhouse gas emission reduction over time will require a combination of continued technological innovation in the fuel efficiency of engines, expanded use of sustainable aviation fuels and the further development of hybrid-electric and electric flight and hydrogen-based aviation technologies.
For example, the risk of insufficient availability of low carbon fuels (such as sustainable aviation fuels or hydrogen) may compromise the pace and degree of emission reduction within the aviation sector. Our success in advancing greenhouse gas emission reduction objectives across our businesses will depend in part on the actions of governments, regulators and other market participants to invest in infrastructure, create appropriate market incentives and to otherwise support the development of new technologies. The process of developing new high-technology products and enhancing existing products to mitigate climate change is often complex, costly and uncertain, and we may pursue strategies or make investments that do not prove to be commercially successful in the time frames expected or at all.
A failure by GE or other industry participants to invest successfully in these technological developments, or to adequately position our businesses to benefit from the growth in adoption of new technologies, could adversely affect our competitive position, business, ability to attract and retain talent, results of operations, cash flows and financial condition. In addition, we face increasing scrutiny and expectations from many customers, governments, regulators, investors, banks, project financiers and other stakeholders regarding the roles that the private sector and individual companies play in decarbonization, which can result in additional costs and pose reputational or other risks for companies like GE that serve carbon intensive industries or relative to progress that we make over time in reducing emissions from our operations or products and achieving our publicly announced ambitions.
We anticipate that we will continue to need to make investments in new technologies and capabilities and devote additional management and other resources in response to the foregoing, and we may not realize the anticipated benefits of those investments and actions. Trends related to the global energy transition and decarbonization will affect the relative competitiveness of different types of product and service offerings within and across our energy businesses and our Aerospace business. Important factors that could impact our businesses include the pace of technological developments and related cost considerations, the levels of economic growth in different markets around the world and the adoption and pace of implementation of climate change-related policies (such as carbon taxes, cap and trade regimes, increased efficiency standards, greenhouse gas emission reduction targets or commitments, incentives or mandates for particular types of energy or policies that impact the availability of financing for certain types of projects) at the national and sub-national levels or by customers, investors or other private actors.
Commercial aviation sector – Our financial performance is dependent on the condition of the commercial aviation sector and our partners and customers in that sector.
rewrittenMacro & demandReplaced COVID-19-specific pandemic risk with broader commercial aviation sector cyclicality risk covering traffic, fuel prices, airline consolidation, terrorism, and public health crises generally.
Our Aerospace business constitutes a substantial portion of our financial results, and the majority of that business is directly tied to economic conditions in the commercial aviation sector, which is cyclical in nature. Capital spending and demand for aircraft engines, aviation products and component aftermarket parts and services by commercial airlines, lessors, other aircraft operators and airframers are influenced by a wide variety of factors, including current and predicted traffic levels, load factors, aircraft fuel prices, labor issues, airline consolidation, bankruptcies and restructuring activities, competition, the retirement of older aircraft, changes in production schedules, regulatory changes, terrorism and related safety concerns, general economic conditions, tightening of credit in financial markets, corporate profitability, cost reduction efforts and remaining performance obligations levels.
Any of these factors could reduce the sales and profit margins of our Aerospace business. Other factors, including future terrorist actions, aviation safety concerns, public health crises or major natural disasters, could also dramatically reduce the demand for commercial air travel, which could negatively impact the sales and profit margins of our Aerospace business. As we experienced with the COVID-19 pandemic, our Aerospace business in particular suffered adverse effects from a global health pandemic that led to a significant decline in commercial air traffic, had material adverse effects on our airline and airframer customers and their demand for our products and services and caused other significant dislocations throughout the aviation sector.
Supply chain disruptions and other lingering impacts from the pandemic and measures in response continue to pose challenges and risks for our business and other industry participants, and future public health crises could cause other disruptions and challenges in the future. We also face risks related to longer-term strategies the aviation sector has implemented and may implement, such as reducing capacity, shifting route patterns or other strategies to mitigate impacts from COVID-19 and the risk of future public health crises, and from potential shifts in the flying public’s demand for travel, any of which could adversely affect future growth in commercial air traffic capacity and the demand for or profitability of our products and services.
Additionally, because a substantial portion of product deliveries to commercial aviation customers are scheduled for delivery in the future, changes in economic conditions can cause customers to request that orders be rescheduled or canceled. Spare parts sales and aftermarket service trends are affected by similar factors, including usage, pricing, technological improvements, regulatory changes and the retirement of older aircraft. Furthermore, because of the lengthy research and development cycle involved in bringing new engine platforms and other products in our Aerospace business to market, we cannot predict the economic conditions that will exist when any new product is ready to enter into service. We also have dependencies on our partners for commercial engine programs to develop, manufacture and service their share of an engine, and on the major airframers that we supply to successfully develop, certify and commercialize aircraft that utilize our engines.
A reduction in spending in the commercial aviation sector, or challenges for key industry participants, could have a significant effect on the demand for our products and services, which could have a material adverse effect on our competitive position, results of operations, financial condition or cash flows.
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Prior heading: COVID-19 - The global COVID-19 pandemic has had and may continue to have a material adverse impact on our operations and financial performance, as well as on the operations and financial performance of many of the customers and suppliers in industries that we serve, particularly for our Aerospace business.
Our operations and Aerospace business constitutes a substantial portion of our financial performance since early 2020 have been negatively impacted by results, and the COVID-19 pandemic majority of that has caused, and may continue business is directly tied to cause, a slowdown of economic activity (including conditions in the decrease commercial aviation sector, which is cyclical in nature. Capital spending and demand for aircraft engines, aviation products and component aftermarket parts and services by commercial airlines, lessors, other aircraft operators and airframers are influenced by a broad wide variety of goods factors, including current and services), disruptions in global supply chains predicted traffic levels, load factors, aircraft fuel prices, labor issues, airline consolidation, bankruptcies and significant volatility restructuring activities, competition, the retirement of older aircraft, changes in production schedules, regulatory changes, terrorism and disruption related safety concerns, general economic conditions, tightening of financial markets. While there has been recovery credit in many business sectors compared to the initial years financial markets, corporate profitability, cost reduction efforts and remaining performance obligations levels. Any of these factors could reduce the pandemic, virus resurgences and variants, regional or site lockdowns sales and similar dynamics may continue to cause operational challenges at profit margins of our facilities or with customers Aerospace business. Other factors, including future terrorist actions, aviation safety concerns, public health crises or suppliers major natural disasters, could also dramatically reduce the demand for commercial air travel, which could negatively impact the sales and adversely affect profit margins of our business and financial performance. In particular, Aerospace business. As we experienced with the COVID-19 pandemic, our Aerospace business constitutes a substantial portion of our financial results, and accordingly the in particular suffered adverse impacts effects from a global health pandemic that COVID-19 has had and may continue led to have on commercial air traffic and operators, airlines, airframers, lessors, suppliers and other actors in the aviation sector more broadly are a significant for GE. Interruptions of regional and international decline in commercial air travel from COVID-19 have traffic, had a material adverse effect effects on our airline and airframer customers and their demand for our products and services and products, caused other significant dislocations throughout the aviation sector. Supply chain disruptions and in some cases may threaten other lingering impacts from the future viability of some customers. Industry participants’ pandemic and measures in response to these dynamics could lead continue to future requests pose challenges and risks for payment deferrals, contract modifications, our business and similar actions across the aviation sector, which may lead to additional charges, impairments other industry participants, and future public health crises could cause other adverse financial impacts, or to customer disputes. There are disruptions and challenges in the future. We also face risks related to longer-term strategies the aviation industry sector has implemented and may implement, such as reducing capacity, shifting route patterns or other strategies to mitigate impacts from COVID-19 and the risk of future public health crises, and from potential shifts in the flying public’s demand for travel, any of which could adversely affect the pace of recovery future growth in commercial air traffic capacity and the demand for or profitability of our products and services. The continuing impact Additionally, because a substantial portion of the COVID-19 pandemic on our operations and financial performance depends on many factors that product deliveries to commercial aviation customers are not within our control, including, but not limited, to: the severity and duration of the COVID-19 outbreaks around scheduled for delivery in the world; governmental, business and individuals’ actions that have been and continue to be taken future, changes in response economic conditions can cause customers to the pandemic (including regional lockdowns, restrictions on travel and transport request that orders be rescheduled or canceled. Spare parts sales and aftermarket service trends are affected by similar factors, including usage, pricing, technological improvements, regulatory changes such as China’s recent reversal of its zero-COVID policy); and the impact retirement of older aircraft. Furthermore, because of the pandemic lengthy research and actions taken development cycle involved in response on global and regional economies, travel, bringing new engine platforms and economic activity; other products in our Aerospace business to market, we cannot predict the availability, public acceptance economic conditions that will exist when any new product is ready to enter into service. We also have dependencies on our partners for commercial engine programs to develop, manufacture and continued efficacy service their share of treatments or vaccines; an engine, and on the pace major airframers that we supply to successfully develop, certify and extent of recovery from commercialize aircraft that utilize our engines. A reduction in spending in the past and any future adverse effects of commercial aviation sector, or challenges for key industry participants, could have a significant effect on the COVID-19 pandemic. Impacts demand for our products and risks related to the COVID-19 pandemic may also services, which could have the a material adverse effect of heightening many on our competitive position, results of the other risk factors described in this section.operations, financial condition or cash flows.
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Competitive environment - We are dependent on the maintenance of existing product lines and service relationships, market acceptance of new product and service introductions, and technology and innovation leadership for revenue and earnings growth.
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The markets in which we operate are highly competitive in terms of pricing, product and service quality, product development and introduction time, customer service, financing terms, the ability to respond to shifts in market demand and the ability to attract and retain skilled talent. Our long-term operating results and competitive position also depend substantially upon our ability to continually develop, introduce, and market new and innovative technology, products, services and platforms, to develop digital solutions for our own operations and our customers, to modify existing products and services, to customize products and services, to maintain long-term customer relationships and to increase our productivity over time as we perform on long-term service agreements.
We often enter into long-term service agreements in both our Aerospace and Power businesses in connection with significant contracts for the sale of equipment. In connection with these agreements, we must accurately estimate our costs associated with delivering the products, product durability and reliability, and the provision of services over time in order to be profitable and generate acceptable returns on our investments. A failure to appropriately estimate or plan for or execute our business plans may adversely affect our delivery of products, services and outcomes in line with our projected financial performance or cost estimates, and ultimately may result in excess costs, build-up of inventory that becomes obsolete, lower profit margins and an erosion of our competitive position.
In addition, at our Renewable Energy business, the rapid pace of innovation among onshore and offshore wind turbine manufacturers in recent years has led to short product cycles, early market introductions and faster time to market, all of which have led and may continue to lead to quality and execution issues, higher costs and other challenges to achieving profitability for new products. Such risks are especially acute in the nascent offshore wind industry, with higher ramp-up costs and the potential for new product introductions to result in losses both in the short- and long-run. If we are not able to identify and implement initiatives that control and reduce costs and increase operating efficiency, or if the cost savings initiatives we have implemented to date do not generate expected cost savings, our financial results could be adversely affected.
Our businesses are also subject to technological change and advances, such as growth in industrial automation and increased digitization of the operations, infrastructure and solutions that customers demand across all the industries we serve. In addition, our use of emerging and evolving technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, which we expect to increase over time, presents business, reputational, legal and compliance risks related to data sourcing, design flaws, integration issues, security threats, privacy protections and the ability to develop sufficient protection measures. The introduction of innovative and disruptive technologies in the markets in which we operate also poses risks in the form of new competitors (including new entrants from outside our traditional industries, such as competitors from digital technology companies), market consolidation, substitutions of existing products, services or solutions, niche players, new business models and competitors that are faster to market with new or more cost-effective products or services.
Existing and new competitors frequently offer services for our installed base, and if the customers that purchase our equipment and products select our competitors’ services or if we otherwise fail to maintain or renew service relationships, this can erode the revenues and profitability of our businesses. In addition, the research and development cycle involved in bringing products in our businesses to market is often lengthy, it is inherently difficult to predict the economic conditions or competitive dynamics that will exist when any new product is complete, and our investments, to the extent they result in bringing a product to market, may generate weaker returns than we anticipated at the outset.
Our capacity to invest in research and development efforts to pursue advancement in a wide range of technologies, products and services also depends on the financial resources that we have available for such investment relative to other capital allocation priorities. Under-investment in research and development, or investment in technologies that prove to be less competitive in the future (at the expense of alternative investment opportunities not pursued), could lead to loss of sales of our products and services in the future, particularly since many of our businesses have long product development cycles. The amounts that we do invest in research and development efforts may not lead to the development of new technologies or products on a timely basis or meet the needs of our customers as fully as competitive offerings.
Business portfolio - Our success depends on achieving our strategic and financial objectives, including through acquisitions, integrations, dispositions and joint ventures.
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With respect to acquisitions and business integrations, dispositions, separations and joint ventures, we may not achieve expected returns or other benefits on a timely basis or at all as a result of changes in strategy, integration challenges or other factors. Over the past several years we have also been pursuing a variety of dispositions, and as discussed above we are in the midst of executing our plan to separate GE Aerospace and GE Vernova into independent companies. In January 2023, we spun off our HealthCare business as GE HealthCare, and GE currently holds a 13.5% equity interest in GE HealthCare. Declines in the value of equity interests (such as our interest in GE HealthCare) or other assets that we sell can diminish the cash proceeds that we realize, and our ability and timing to sell can depend on market conditions and the liquidity of the relevant asset.
We may dispose of businesses or assets at a price or on terms that are less favorable than we had anticipated, or with purchase price adjustments or the exclusion of assets or liabilities that must be divested, managed or run off separately. Dispositions or other business separations also often involve continued financial involvement in the divested business, such as through continuing equity ownership, retained assets or liabilities, transition services agreements, commercial agreements, guarantees, indemnities or other current or contingent financial obligations or liabilities. Under these arrangements, performance by the divested businesses or other conditions outside our control could materially affect our future financial results. Evaluating or executing on all types of potential or planned portfolio transactions can divert senior management time and resources from other pursuits.
We also participate in a number of joint ventures with other companies or government enterprises in various markets around the world, including joint ventures where we have a lesser degree of control over the business operations, which expose us to additional operational, financial, reputational, legal or compliance risks.
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Prior heading: Business portfolio - Our success depends on achieving our strategic and financial objectives, including through acquisitions, integrations, dispositions and joint ventures.
With respect to acquisitions and business integrations or with integrations, dispositions, separations, such as the spin-off of GE HealthCare, separations and joint ventures, we may not achieve expected returns or other benefits on a timely basis or at all as a result of changes in strategy, integration challenges or other factors. Over the past several years we have also been pursuing a variety of dispositions, and as discussed above we are in the midst of executing our plan to exit separate GE Aerospace and GE Vernova into independent companies. In January 2023, we spun off our HealthCare business as GE HealthCare, and GE currently holds a 13.5% equity interests interest in AerCap and GE HealthCare over time. HealthCare. Declines in the values value of equity interests (such as our interests AerCap and interest in GE HealthCare) or other assets (such as the AerCap senior notes that we hold) that we sell can diminish the cash proceeds that we realize, and our ability and timing to sell can depend on market conditions and the liquidity of the relevant asset and other market conditions. asset. We may dispose of businesses or assets at a price or on terms that are less favorable than we had anticipated, or with purchase price adjustments or the exclusion of assets or liabilities that must be divested, managed or run off separately. Dispositions or other business separations also often involve continued financial involvement in the divested business, such as through continuing equity ownership, retained assets or liabilities, transition services agreements, commercial agreements, guarantees, indemnities or other current or contingent financial obligations or liabilities. Under these arrangements, performance by the divested businesses or other conditions outside our control could materially affect our future financial results. Evaluating or executing on all types of potential or planned portfolio transactions can divert senior management time and resources from other pursuits. We also participate in a number of joint ventures with other companies or government enterprises in various markets around the world, including joint ventures where we have a lesser degree of control over the business operations, which expose us to additional operational, financial, reputational, legal or compliance risks.
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Intellectual property - Our intellectual property portfolio may not prevent competitors from independently developing products and services similar to or duplicative to ours, and the value of our intellectual property may be negatively impacted by external dependencies.
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Our patents and other intellectual property may not prevent competitors from independently developing or selling products and services similar to or duplicative of ours, and there can be no assurance that the resources invested by us to protect our intellectual property will be sufficient or that our intellectual property portfolio will adequately deter misappropriation or improper use of our technology, particularly in certain markets outside the U.S. where intellectual property laws and related enforcement mechanisms may not be as well-developed. Trademark licenses of the GE brand in connection with dispositions, including in connection with the separation of GE HealthCare in January 2023 and the planned separation of GE Aerospace and GE Vernova into independent companies, may negatively impact the overall value of the brand in the future.
We also face competition in some countries where we have not invested in an intellectual property portfolio. If we are not able to protect our intellectual property, the value of our brand and other intangible assets may be diminished, and our business may be adversely affected. We also face attempts, both internally from insider threats and externally from cyber-attacks, to gain unauthorized access to our IT systems or products for the purpose of improperly acquiring our trade secrets or confidential business information. In addition, we have observed an increase in the use of social engineering tactics by bad actors attempting to obtain confidential business information or credentials to access systems with our intellectual property.
The theft or unauthorized use or publication of our trade secrets and other confidential business information as a result of such incidents could adversely affect our competitive position and the value of our investment in research and development. In addition, we are subject to the enforcement of patents or other intellectual property by third parties, including aggressive and opportunistic enforcement claims by non-practicing entities. Regardless of the merit of such claims, responding to infringement claims can be expensive and time-consuming. GE has in the past, and may in the future be, found to infringe third-party rights, which could require us to pay substantial damages or enjoin us from offering some of our products and services.
The value of, or our ability to use, our intellectual property may also be negatively impacted by dependencies on third parties, such as our ability to obtain or renew on reasonable terms licenses that we need in the future, or our ability to secure or retain ownership or rights to use data in certain software analytics or services offerings.
OPERATIONAL RISKS. Operational risk relates to risks arising from systems, processes, people and external events that affect the operation of our businesses. It includes risks related to product and service life cycle and execution; product safety and performance; information management and data protection and security, including cybersecurity; and supply chain and business disruption.
Operational execution - Operational challenges could have a material adverse effect on our business, reputation, financial position, results of operations and cash flows.
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GE’s financial results depend on the successful execution of our businesses’ operating plans across all steps of the product and service life cycle. We seek to improve the operations and execution of our businesses on an ongoing basis, and our ability to make the desired improvements is an important factor in our profitability and overall financial performance. We also face operational risks in connection with launching or ramping newer product platforms, such as the Haliade-X offshore wind turbine platform or new onshore wind turbine models at Renewable Energy, or the LEAP or GE9X engines at Aerospace. Particularly with newer product platforms and technologies, our businesses seek to reduce the costs of these products over time with experience, and risks related to our supply chain, the availability of skilled labor, product quality, timely delivery or other aspects of operational execution can adversely affect our ability to meet customers' expectations, profits and cash flows.
Many of our customer contracts are complex and contain provisions that could cause us to incur penalties, be liable for liquidated damages and incur unanticipated expenses with respect to the timely delivery, functionality, deployment, operation, durability, and availability of our products, solutions and services. Operational failures at any of our businesses that result in quality problems or potential product, environmental, health or safety risks, could have a material adverse effect on our business, reputation, financial position, cash flows and results of operations.
In addition, our Power and Renewable Energy businesses are often involved in large projects that pose unique risks related to their location, scale, complexity, duration and pricing or payment structure. At times, these businesses sell products through or with engineering, procurement and production firms, where we can be either a sub-supplier or a consortium partner. The scope of supply can range from products alone to extended plant scope, including plant-level guarantees. Delivering on large projects with multiple parties and subcontractors involved, particularly outside of mature markets in the U.S. and Europe, is highly complex with risks related to the safety and security of workers, impacts on local communities, corruption, breach or theft of intellectual property and other factors.
Performance issues or schedule delays can arise due to inadequate technical expertise, unanticipated project modifications, developments at project sites, environmental, health and safety issues, execution by or coordination with suppliers, subcontractors or consortium partners, financial difficulties of our customers or significant partners or compliance with government regulations, and these can lead to cost overruns, contractual penalties, liquidated damages and other adverse consequences. Where GE is a member of a consortium, we are typically subject to claims based on joint and several liability, and claims can extend to aspects of the project or costs that are not directly related or limited to GE’s scope of work or over which GE does not have control. Operational, quality or other issues at large projects, or across our projects portfolio more broadly, can adversely affect GE’s business, reputation, cash flows or results of operations.
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Prior heading: Operational execution - Operational challenges could have a material adverse effect on our business, reputation, financial position, results of operations and cash flows.
The Company’s GE’s financial results depend on the successful execution of our businesses’ operating plans across all steps of the product and service lifecycle. life cycle. We continue working seek to improve the operations and execution of our businesses on an ongoing basis, and our ability to make the desired improvements will be a significant is an important factor in our profitability and overall financial performance. We also face operational risks in connection with launching or ramping new newer product platforms, such as the Haliade-X offshore wind turbine platform or new onshore wind turbine models at Renewable Energy, or the LEAP engine or GE9X engines at Aerospace. Particularly with newer product platforms and technologies, our businesses seek to reduce the costs of these products over time with experience, and risks related to our supply chain, the availability of skilled labor, product quality, timely delivery, liquidated damages delivery or other aspects of operational execution can adversely affect our ability to meet customers' expectations, profits and cash flows. Many of our customer contracts are complex and contain provisions that could cause us to incur penalties, be liable for liquidated damages and incur unanticipated expenses with respect to the timely delivery, functionality, deployment, operation, durability, and availability of our products, solutions and services. Operational failures at any of our businesses that result in quality problems or potential product, environmental, health or safety risks, could have a material adverse effect on our business, reputation, financial position, cash flows and results of operations. In addition, a portion of our business in recent years at our Power and Renewable Energy businesses involves large projects where we have taken on, or are members of a consortium responsible for, the full scope of engineering, procurement, construction or other services. We have been increasing our selectivity as to how frequently and with what scope of work we will participate in these types of projects, which often involved in large projects that pose unique risks related to their location, scale, complexity, duration and pricing or payment structure. Delivering on At times, these types businesses sell products through or with engineering, procurement and production firms, where we can be either a sub-supplier or a consortium partner. The scope of supply can range from products alone to extended plant scope, including plant-level guarantees. Delivering on large projects with multiple parties and subcontractors involved, particularly outside of mature markets in the U.S. and Europe, is highly complex with risks related to the safety and security of workers, impacts on local communities, corruption, breach or theft of intellectual property and other factors. Performance issues or schedule delays can arise due to inadequate technical expertise, unanticipated project modifications, developments at project sites, environmental, health and safety issues, execution by or coordination with suppliers, subcontractors or consortium partners, financial difficulties of our customers or significant partners or compliance with government regulations, and these can lead to cost overruns, contractual penalties, liquidated damages and other adverse consequences. Where GE is a member of a consortium, we are typically subject to claims based on joint and several liability, and claims can extend to aspects of the project or costs that are not directly related or limited to GE’s scope of work or over which GE does not have control. Operational, quality or other issues at large projects, or across our projects portfolio more broadly, can adversely affect GE’s business, reputation, cash flows or results of operations.
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Product safety and quality - Our products and services are highly sophisticated and specialized, and a major failure or quality issue affecting our products or third-party products with which our products are integrated can adversely affect our business, reputation, financial position, results of operations and cash flows.
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We produce highly sophisticated products and provide specialized services for both our own and third-party products that incorporate or use complex or leading-edge technology, including both hardware and software. Many of our products and services involve complex industrial machinery or infrastructure projects, such as commercial jet engines, gas turbines, onshore and offshore wind turbines or nuclear power generation, and accordingly the adverse impact of product quality issues can be significant. Actual or perceived design, production, performance or other quality issues related to new product introductions or existing product lines can result in direct warranty, maintenance and other costs, including costs associated with project delays. For example, in the third quarter of 2022, we booked a provision due to changes in estimates for existing warranties for the deployment of repairs and other corrective measures to improve overall quality and fleet availability relating to our Onshore Wind business.
Quality issues can also result in reputational harm to our businesses, with a potential loss of attractiveness of our products, solutions and services to new and existing customers. A widespread fleet issue could result in revenue loss while the associated product is suspended from operation. This risk is pronounced, for example, in connection with the introduction of new technology in the main components of offshore wind turbines due to the challenges of servicing and performing maintenance on offshore wind turbines and the difficulties associated with scaling up production of new components. In addition, a catastrophic product failure or similar event resulting in injuries or death, widespread outages, a fleet grounding or similar systemic consequences could have a material adverse effect on our business, reputation, financial position, cash flows and results of operations.
Even when there have not been a particularly significant or widespread product failures in the field, many of our products and services must function under demanding operating conditions and meet exacting and evolving certification, performance, reliability and durability standards that we, our customers or regulators adopt. Developing and maintaining products that meet or exceed these can be costly and technologically challenging, and may also involve extensive coordination of suppliers and highly skilled labor from thousands of workers; a failure to deliver products and services that meet these standards could have significant adverse financial, competitive or reputational effects. Technical, mechanical and other failures occur from time to time, whether as a result of manufacturing or design defect, operational process or production issue attributable to us, our customers, suppliers, third party integrators or others.
In some circumstances we have also incurred and in the future we may continue to incur increased costs, delayed payments or lost equipment or services revenue in connection with a significant issue with a third party’s product with which our products are integrated, or if parts or other components that we incorporate in our products have defects or other quality issues. For example, a prolonged aircraft grounding, certification or production delays or other adverse developments with aircraft powered by our engines can pose risk to our Aerospace business. There can be no assurance that the operational processes around sourcing, product design, manufacture, performance and servicing that we or our customers or other third parties have designed to meet rigorous quality standards will be sufficient to prevent us or our customers or other third parties from experiencing operational process or product failures and other problems, including through manufacturing or design defects, process or other failures of contractors or third-party suppliers, cyber- attacks or other intentional acts, software vulnerabilities or malicious software, that could result in potential product, safety, quality, regulatory or environmental risks.
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Prior heading: Product safety and quality - Our products and services are highly sophisticated and specialized, and a major failure or quality issue affecting our products or third-party products with which our products are integrated can adversely affect our business, reputation, financial position, results of operations and cash flows.
We produce highly sophisticated products and provide specialized services for both our own and third-party products that incorporate or use complex or leading-edge technology, including both hardware and software. Many of our products and services involve complex industrial machinery or infrastructure projects, such as commercial jet engines, gas turbines, onshore and offshore wind turbines or nuclear power generation, and accordingly the adverse impact of product quality issues can be significant. Actual or perceived design, production, performance or other quality issues related to new product introductions or existing product lines can result in reputational harm to our businesses, in addition to direct warranty, maintenance and other costs, including costs that may arise. associated with project delays. For example, as discussed above, based on experience across our Onshore Wind fleet, in the third quarter of 2022, we are deploying booked a provision due to changes in estimates for existing warranties for the deployment of repairs and other corrective measures to improve overall quality and fleet availability resulting relating to our Onshore Wind business. Quality issues can also result in higher warranty reputational harm to our businesses, with a potential loss of attractiveness of our products, solutions and related reserves. services to new and existing customers. A widespread fleet issue could result in revenue loss while the associated product is suspended from operation. This risk is pronounced, for example, in connection with the introduction of new technology in the main components of offshore wind turbines due to the challenges of servicing and performing maintenance on offshore wind turbines and the difficulties associated with scaling up production of new components. In addition, a catastrophic product failure or similar event resulting in injuries or death, widespread outages, a fleet grounding or similar systemic consequences could have a material adverse effect on our business, reputation, financial position, cash flows and results of operations. Even when there has have not been a particularly significant or widespread product failures in the field, many of our products and services must function under demanding operating conditions and meet exacting certification, performance and evolving certification, performance, reliability and durability standards that we, our customers or regulators adopt. Developing and maintaining products that meet or exceed these can be costly and technologically challenging, and may also involve extensive coordination of suppliers and highly skilled labor from thousands of workers; a failure to deliver products and services that meet these standards could have significant adverse financial, competitive or reputational effects. Technical, mechanical and other failures occur from time to time, whether as a result of manufacturing or design defect, operational process or production issue attributable to us, our customers, suppliers, third party integrators or others. In some circumstances we have also incurred and in the future we may continue to incur increased costs, delayed payments or lost equipment or services revenue in connection with a significant issue with a third party’s product with which our products are integrated, or if parts or other components that we incorporate in our products have defects or other quality issues. For example, a prolonged aircraft grounding, certification or production delays or other adverse developments with aircraft powered by our engines can pose risk to our Aerospace business. There can be no assurance that the operational processes around sourcing, product design, manufacture, performance and servicing that we or our customers or other third parties have designed to meet rigorous quality standards will be sufficient to prevent us or our customers or other third parties from experiencing operational process or product failures and other problems, including through manufacturing or design defects, process or other failures of contractors or third-party suppliers, cyber-attacks cyber- attacks or other intentional acts, software vulnerabilities or malicious software, that could result in potential product, safety, quality, regulatory or environmental risks.
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Cybersecurity - Increased cybersecurity requirements, vulnerabilities, threats and more sophisticated and targeted computer crime, as well as cybersecurity failures, pose risk to our systems, networks, products, solutions, services and data.
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Increased global cybersecurity requirements, vulnerabilities, threats, computer viruses and more sophisticated and targeted cyber-related attacks such as ransomware, as well as cybersecurity failures resulting from human or technological errors, pose risk to the security of GE's and its customers', partners', suppliers' and third-party service providers' infrastructure, products, systems and networks and the confidentiality, availability and integrity of GE's and its customers' data, as well as associated financial and reputational risks. The perpetrators of such attacks include sophisticated malicious actors including states and state-affiliated actors targeting critical infrastructure. The risks in this area continue to grow, and cyberattacks are expected to accelerate on a global basis in frequency and impact as threat actors increasingly use artificial intelligence and other techniques to circumvent security controls, evade detection and remove forensic evidence.
As a result, we may be unable to promptly or effectively detect, investigate, remediate or recover from cybersecurity attacks, which may result in material harm to our systems, information or business.
We have experienced, and expect to continue to experience, cyberattacks of varying degrees of sophistication and other cybersecurity incidents. Bad actors have attempted and we expect will continue to attempt to use our separation of GE HealthCare in January 2023 and the planned separation of GE Aerospace and GE Vernova into independent companies as an opportunity to launch attacks or increase their number of attacks against GE’s networks and systems, as well as attempt to use social engineering tactics or phishing emails to induce our employees to reveal sensitive information or install malware. A significant cyber-related attack against us, a key third-party system or a network that we use, or in one of our industries such as an attack on power grids, power plants or commercial aircraft (even if such an attack does not involve GE products, services or systems), could adversely affect our business.
The large number of suppliers that we work with requires significant effort for the initial and ongoing verification of the effective implementation of cybersecurity requirements by suppliers. The increasing degree of interconnectedness between GE and its partners, suppliers and customers also poses a risk to the security of GE’s network as well as the larger ecosystem in which GE operates. Our risk mitigation efforts may fail to prevent, detect and limit the impact of cyber-related attacks, and we remain vulnerable to known and unknown cybersecurity threats.
The continued adoption of new technologies by our businesses and our suppliers also increases our exposure to cybersecurity threats. An unknown vulnerability or compromise in our or a third-party product (for example, open source software) may expose our systems, networks, software or connected products to malicious actors and lead to the misuse or unintended use of our products, loss of GE intellectual property, misappropriation of sensitive, confidential or personal data, safety risks or unavailability of equipment. We also have access to sensitive, classified, confidential or personal data or information in certain of our businesses that is subject to privacy and security laws, regulations or customer-imposed controls. We are vulnerable to security breaches, theft, misplaced, lost or corrupted data, programming errors and misconfigurations, employee errors (including as a result of social engineering/phishing) and/or malfeasance (including misappropriation by insiders or departing employees) that may compromise sensitive, classified, confidential or personal data or information, improper use of our systems, software solutions or networks, unauthorized access, use, disclosure, modification or destruction of or denial of access to information, defective products, production downtimes and operational disruptions.
In addition, our suppliers may be the victim of a cyber-related incident that could compromise our intellectual property, personal data or other confidential information, or result in production downtimes and operational disruptions that could cause us to breach our commitments to customers. An unknown security vulnerability or malicious software in a product used by a supplier to deliver a service or embedded in a supplier’s product that is later integrated into a GE product could lead to a vulnerability in the security of GE’s product or, if used internally in the GE network environment, to a compromise of the GE network, which may lead to the loss of information or operational disruptions.
Cybersecurity-related and data privacy and protection laws and regulatory regimes are evolving, can vary significantly by country and present increasing compliance challenges, and we from time to time receive, and in the future will likely receive, regulatory inquiries about specific incidents or aspects of our cybersecurity framework; these dynamics increase our costs, affect our competitiveness and can expose us to fines or other penalties and reputational risks. In addition, cybersecurity incidents can result in other negative consequences, regardless of whether the direct effects of an incident are significant, including damage to our reputation or competitiveness, restoration and remediation costs, increased digital infrastructure or related costs that are not covered by insurance, and costs or fines arising from litigation or regulatory investigations or actions.
While we carry cyber insurance, we cannot be certain that our coverage will be adequate for liabilities actually incurred, that insurance will continue to be available to us on economically reasonable terms, or at all, or that any insurer will not deny coverage as to any future claim.
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Prior heading: Cybersecurity - Increased cybersecurity requirements, vulnerabilities, threats and more sophisticated and targeted computer crime pose a risk to our systems, networks, products, solutions, services and data.
Increased global cybersecurity requirements, vulnerabilities, threats, computer viruses and more sophisticated and targeted cyber-related attacks such as ransomware, as well as cybersecurity failures resulting from human error and or technological errors, pose a risk to the security of GE's and its customers', partners', suppliers' and third-party service providers' infrastructure, products, systems and networks and the confidentiality, availability and integrity of GE's and its customers' data, as well as associated financial and reputational risks. As the The perpetrators of such attacks become more capable (including include sophisticated state or state-affiliated actors), malicious actors including states and as state-affiliated actors targeting critical infrastructure is increasingly becoming digitized, the infrastructure. The risks in this area continue to grow. grow, and cyberattacks are expected to accelerate on a global basis in frequency and impact as threat actors increasingly use artificial intelligence and other techniques to circumvent security controls, evade detection and remove forensic evidence. As a result, we may be unable to promptly or effectively detect, investigate, remediate or recover from cybersecurity attacks, which may result in material harm to our systems, information or business. We have experienced, and expect to continue to experience, cyberattacks of varying degrees of sophistication and other cybersecurity incidents. Bad actors have attempted and may we expect will continue to attempt to use our strategic plan to separate separation of GE HealthCare in January 2023 and the planned separation of GE Aerospace and GE Vernova into three separate independent companies as an opportunity to launch attacks or increase their number of attacks against GE’s network. networks and systems, as well as attempt to use social engineering tactics or phishing emails to induce our employees to reveal sensitive information or install malware. A significant cyber-related attack against us, a key third-party system or a network that we use, or in one of our industries, industries such as an attack on power grids, power plants or commercial aircraft (even if such an attack does not involve GE products, services or systems), could pose broader disruptions and adversely affect our business. We have also observed an increase in third-party breaches and ransomware attacks at suppliers, service providers and software providers, and our efforts to mitigate adverse effects on GE if this trend continues may not be successful in the future. The large number of suppliers that we work with requires significant effort for the initial and ongoing verification of the effective implementation of cybersecurity requirements by suppliers. The increasing degree of interconnectedness between GE and its partners, suppliers and customers also poses a risk to the security of GE’s network as well as the larger ecosystem in which GE operates. There can be no assurance that our Our risk mitigation efforts to mitigate cybersecurity risks by employing a number of measures, including employee training, monitoring and testing, performing security reviews and requiring business partners with connections to the GE network to appropriately secure their information technology systems, and maintenance of protective systems and contingency plans, will be sufficient may fail to prevent, detect and limit the impact of cyber-related attacks, and we remain vulnerable to known or and unknown cybersecurity threats. In addition to existing risks from the integration of digital technologies into our business portfolio, the The continued adoption of new technologies in the future may by our businesses and our suppliers also increase increases our exposure to cybersecurity breaches and failures. While we have developed secure development lifecycle design practices to secure our software designs and connected products, an threats. An unknown vulnerability or compromise could potentially impact the security of GE’s in our or a third-party product (for example, open source software) may expose our systems, networks, software or connected products to malicious actors and lead to the misuse or unintended use of our products, loss of GE intellectual property, misappropriation of sensitive, confidential or personal data, safety risks or unavailability of equipment. We also have access to sensitive, classified, confidential or personal data or information in certain of our businesses that is subject to privacy and security laws, regulations or customer-imposed controls. Despite our use of reasonable and appropriate controls to protect our systems and sensitive, confidential or personal data or information, we have vulnerability We are vulnerable to security breaches, theft, misplaced, lost or corrupted data, programming errors, errors and misconfigurations, employee errors (including as a result of social engineering/phishing) and/or malfeasance (including misappropriation by insiders or departing employees) that could potentially lead to material compromising of may compromise sensitive, classified, confidential or personal data or information, improper use of our systems, software solutions or networks, unauthorized access, use, disclosure, modification or destruction of or denial of access to information, defective products, production downtimes and operational disruptions. In addition, while we require our suppliers to implement and maintain reasonable and appropriate controls to protect information we provide to them, they may be the victim of a cyber-related attack incident that could lead to the compromise of the Company’s our intellectual property, personal data or other confidential information, or to result in production downtimes and operational disruptions that could have an adverse effect on our ability cause us to meet breach our commitments to customers. An unknown security vulnerability or malicious software in a product used by a supplier to deliver a service or embedded in a supplier’s product that is later integrated into a GE product could lead to a vulnerability in the security of GE’s product or or, if used internally in the GE network environment environment, to a compromise of the GE network, which could potentially may lead to the loss of information or operational disruptions. Data Cybersecurity-related and data privacy and protection laws and regulatory regimes are evolving, can vary significantly by country and present increasing compliance challenges, which and we from time to time receive, and in the future will likely receive, regulatory inquiries about specific incidents or aspects of our cybersecurity framework; these dynamics increase our costs, affect our competitiveness and can expose us to substantial fines or other penalties. penalties and reputational risks. In addition, a significant cyber-related attack could cybersecurity incidents can result in other negative consequences, regardless of whether the direct effects of an incident are significant, including damage to our reputation or competitiveness, remediation, restoration and remediation costs, increased digital infrastructure or other related costs that are not covered by insurance, and costs or fines arising from litigation or regulatory action.investigations or actions. While we carry cyber insurance, we cannot be certain that our coverage will be adequate for liabilities actually incurred, that insurance will continue to be available to us on economically reasonable terms, or at all, or that any insurer will not deny coverage as to any future claim.
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Supply chain - Significant raw material or other component shortages, supplier capacity constraints, supplier or customer production disruptions, supplier quality and sourcing issues or price increases have increased, and may continue to increase, our operating costs and can adversely impact the competitive positions of our products.
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Our reliance on third-party suppliers, contract manufacturers and service providers, and commodity markets to secure raw materials, parts, components and sub-systems used in our products exposes us to volatility in the prices and availability of these materials, parts, components, systems and services. As our supply chains are complex and extend into many different countries and regions around the world, we are also subject to global economic and geopolitical dynamics and risks associated with exporting components manufactured in particular countries for incorporation into finished products completed in other countries. We operate in a supply-constrained environment and are facing, and may continue to face, supply-chain shortages, inflationary pressures, shortages of skilled labor, transportation and logistics challenges and manufacturing disruptions that impact our revenues, profitability and timeliness in fulfilling customer orders.
We anticipate supply chain pressures across our businesses will continue to challenge and adversely affect our operations and financial performance for some period of time. For example, successfully executing the significant production and delivery ramp-up efforts at our Aerospace business from both strong demand for newer engine platforms such as the LEAP and the aviation sector’s recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, depends in part on our suppliers having access to the materials and skilled labor they require and making timely deliveries to us, as well as meeting the required quality and performance standards for commercial aviation. In addition, some of our suppliers or their sub-suppliers are limited- or sole-source suppliers, and our ability to meet our obligations to customers depends on the performance, product quality and stability of such suppliers.
We also have internal dependencies on certain key GE manufacturing or other facilities. Disruptions in deliveries, capacity constraints, production disruptions up- or down-stream, price increases, or decreased availability of raw materials or commodities, including as a result of war, natural disasters (including the effects of climate change such as sea level rise, drought, flooding, wildfires and more intense weather events), actual or threatened public health pandemics or emergencies or other business continuity events, adversely affect our operations and, depending on the length and severity of the disruption, can limit our ability to meet our commitments to customers or significantly impact our operating profit or cash flows. Quality, capability, compliance and sourcing issues experienced by third-party providers can also adversely affect our costs, margin rates and the quality and effectiveness of our products and services and result in liability and reputational harm.
The harm to us could be significant if, for example, a quality issue at a supplier or with components that we integrate into our products results in a widespread quality issue across one of our product lines or our installed base of equipment. In addition, our suppliers may experience cyber-related attacks, as described above, which could negatively impact their ability to meet their delivery obligations to us and in turn have an adverse effect on our ability to meet our commitments to customers.
FINANCIAL RISKS. Financial risk relates to our ability to meet financial goals and obligations and mitigate exposure to broad market risks, including credit risk; funding and liquidity risks, such as risk related to our credit ratings and our availability and cost of funding; and volatility in foreign currency exchange rates, interest rates and commodity prices. Credit risk is the risk of financial loss arising from a customer or counterparty failure to meet its contractual obligations, and we face credit risk arising from both our industrial businesses and from our remaining financial services operations. Liquidity risk refers to the potential inability to meet contractual or contingent financial obligations (whether on- or off-balance sheet) as they arise, and could potentially impact our financial condition, cash flow or overall safety and soundness.
Customers and counterparties - Global economic, industry-specific or other developments that weaken the financial condition or soundness of significant customers, governments or other parties we deal with can adversely affect our business, results of operations and cash flows.
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The business and operating results of our businesses have been, and will continue to be, affected by worldwide economic conditions, including conditions in the air transportation, power generation, renewable energy and other industries we serve. Existing or potential customers may delay or cancel plans to purchase our products and services, including large infrastructure projects, and may not be able to fulfill their obligations to us in a timely fashion or at all as a result of business deterioration, cash flow shortages or difficulty obtaining financing for particular projects or due to macroeconomic conditions, geopolitical disruptions, changes in law or other challenges affecting the strength of the global economy. The airline industry, for example, is highly cyclical, and sustained economic growth and political stability in both developed and emerging markets are principal factors underlying long-term air traffic growth; the current macroeconomic and geopolitical environment and the potential for recession pose risks to the rate of that growth.
Aviation sector activity is also particularly influenced by the actions of a small group of large original equipment manufacturers, as well as large airlines in various geographies. We have significant business with, and credit exposure to, some of our largest aviation customers and accordingly our Aerospace business performance can be adversely affected by challenges that individual customers or the industry faces related to factors such as competition, the need for cost reduction, financial stability and soundness, and the availability of aircraft leasing and financing alternatives, the satisfaction of certification or other regulatory requirements for aircraft in various jurisdictions, the retirement of older aircraft and other dynamics affecting the original equipment and aftermarket service markets, or by a significant disruption of air travel such as what occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A potential future disruption in connection with a terrorist incident, cyberattack, actual or threatened public health pandemic or emergency or recessionary economic environment that results in the loss of business and leisure traffic could also adversely affect these customers, their ability to fulfill their obligations to us in a timely fashion or at all, demand for our products and services and the viability of a customer’s business. (See also Risk Factors - Commercial aviation sector.) In our Power and Renewable Energy businesses, our customers also face a variety of challenges, including in connection with decarbonization, industry consolidation, competition and shifts in the availability of financing for certain types of power projects or technologies (such as prohibitions on financing for fossil fuel-based projects or technologies); these dynamics can also have a significant impact on the operating results and outlooks for our businesses.
In addition, our customers include numerous governmental entities within and outside the U.S., including the U.S. federal government and state and local entities. We also at times face greater challenges collecting on receivables with customers that are sovereign governments or located in emerging markets. If there is significant deterioration in the global economy, in our industries, in financial markets or with particular significant counterparties, our results of operations, financial position and cash flows could be materially adversely affected.
Run-off insurance and banking operations - We continue to have exposure to our run-off insurance operations and Bank BPH mortgage portfolio in Poland.
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While in recent years we have greatly reduced the scope of GE’s former financial services operations, we continue to retain significant exposure to legacy insurance and other financial services operations that will run off over a long period of time and, in the event of future adverse developments, could cause funding or liquidity stress. For example, it is possible that results of our statutory testing of insurance reserves in future years will require capital contributions to our insurance subsidiaries, even after we make the expected capital contribution in the first quarter of 2024 that will complete the contributions in connection with the statutory permitted practice approved in 2018 by the KID.
Our statutory testing of insurance reserves is subject to a variety of assumptions, including assumptions about the discount rate (which is sensitive to changes in market interest rates), morbidity, mortality and future long-term care premium increases. Future adverse changes to these assumptions (to the extent not offset by any favorable changes to these assumptions) could result in an increase to future policy benefit reserves and, potentially, to the amount of capital we are required to contribute to our insurance subsidiaries (as discussed in the Other Items - Insurance section within MD&A). In addition, we have exposure to various financial counterparties that pose credit and other risks in the event of insolvency or other default.
For example, a portion of our run-off insurance operations’ assets are held in trust accounts associated with reinsurance contracts. For our UFLIC subsidiary, such trust assets are currently held in trusts for the benefit of insurance company subsidiaries of Genworth, which has stated in the past that it will not bolster the capital position of its insurance subsidiaries. Solvency or other concerns about Genworth or its insurance company subsidiaries may cause those subsidiaries or their regulators to take or attempt to take actions that could adversely affect UFLIC, including control over assets in the relevant trusts. It is also possible that additional contingent liabilities and loss estimates for Bank BPH, in connection with the ongoing litigation in Poland related to its portfolio of residential mortgage loans denominated in or indexed to foreign currencies (see Note 24), will need to be recognized (or loss estimates may increase in the future) and will become payable.
Though we may consider strategic options to accelerate the further reduction in the size of these remaining financial services operations, such options may not be viable or attractive because of the associated cash payments, financial charges or other adverse effects. There can be no assurance that future liabilities, losses or impairments to the carrying value of assets within our financial services operations would not materially and adversely affect GE’s business, financial position, cash flows, results of operations or capacity to provide financing to support orders at the businesses.
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Prior heading: Financial services operations - We continue to have exposure to insurance, credit, legal and other risks in our financial services operations and, in the event of future adverse developments, may not be able to meet our business and financial objectives without further actions or additional capital contributions.
To fund While in recent years we have greatly reduced the remaining statutory capital contributions that scope of GE’s former financial services operations, we expect continue to make retain significant exposure to our legacy insurance subsidiaries, as well as to meet our debt maturities and other obligations, we expect to rely on liquidity from our operations. There is a risk financial services operations that will run off over a long period of time and, in the event of future adverse developments developments, could cause funding or liquidity stress. For example, it is possible that results of our statutory testing of insurance reserves in future requirements for years will require capital contributions to our insurance subsidiaries will be greater than currently estimated, or subsidiaries, even after we make the expected capital contribution in the first quarter of 2024 that contemplated will complete the contributions could be accelerated in connection with the statutory permitted practice approved in 2018 by regulators. the KID. Our annual statutory testing of insurance reserves is subject to a variety of assumptions, including assumptions about the discount rate (which is sensitive to changes in market interest rates), morbidity, mortality and future long-term care premium increases. Any future Future adverse changes to these assumptions (to the extent not offset by any favorable changes to these assumptions) could result in an increase to future policy benefit reserves and, potentially, to the amount of capital we are required to contribute to our insurance subsidiaries (as discussed in the Other Items - Insurance section within MD&A). We also anticipate that the new insurance accounting standard that became effective on January 1, 2023 (as discussed in the Other Items - New Accounting Standards section within MD&A) will materially affect our financial statements and require changes to certain of our processes, systems, and controls. In addition, we continue to evaluate potential strategic options to accelerate the further reduction in the size of our financial services operations. Some of these options could involve cash payments, financial charges or other adverse effects depending on the timing, negotiated terms and conditions of any ultimate arrangements. In addition, our financial services operations also have exposure to various industries and counterparties, including insurance companies, brokers and dealers, and financial institutions, which exposes us to counterparties that pose credit and other risks in the event of insolvency or other default of a counterparty. default. For example, a portion of our run-off insurance operations’ assets are held in trust accounts associated with reinsurance contracts. For our UFLIC subsidiary, such trust assets are currently held in trusts for the benefit of insurance company subsidiaries of Genworth, which has stated in 2021 the past that any proceeds from its contingency plan it will be used to repay parent company debt and not to bolster the capital position of its insurance subsidiaries. Solvency or other concerns about Genworth or its insurance company subsidiaries may cause those subsidiaries or their regulators to take or attempt to take actions that could adversely affect UFLIC, including control over assets in the relevant trusts. It is also possible that additional contingent liabilities and loss estimates from our financial services-related continuing or discontinued operations, such as those for Bank BPH, in connection with the ongoing litigation in Poland related to Bank BPH its portfolio of residential mortgage loans denominated in or indexed to foreign currencies (see Note 24), will need to be recognized or (or loss estimates may increase in the future future) and will become payable. Though we may consider strategic options to accelerate the further reduction in the size of these remaining financial services operations, such options may not be viable or attractive because of the associated cash payments, financial charges or other adverse effects. There can be no assurance that future liabilities, losses or impairments to the carrying value of assets within our financial services operations would not materially and adversely affect GE’s business, financial position, cash flows, results of operations or capacity to provide financing to support orders at the businesses.
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Borrowings & liquidity – We may face risks related to our debt levels, particularly in severely adverse market conditions, and future credit downgrades could adversely affect our liquidity, funding costs and related margins.
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We have significantly reduced our debt levels over the past several years through liability management actions, and we intend to maintain a sustainable investment-grade long-term credit rating. Existing debt may adversely impact our ability to obtain new debt financing on favorable terms in the future, particularly if coupled with downgrades of our credit ratings or a deterioration of capital markets conditions more generally. There can be no assurance that we will not face future credit rating downgrades as a result of factors such as the performance of our businesses, reduced diversification of GE’s businesses following the planned separation into three independent companies or changes in rating application or methodology, and future downgrades could adversely affect our cost of funds, liquidity and competitive position.
Further, our swap, forward and option contracts are executed under standard master agreements that typically contain mutual downgrade provisions that provide the ability of the counterparty to require termination if the credit ratings of the applicable GE entity were to fall below specified ratings levels. In addition, if we are unable to generate cash flows in accordance with our plans or face unforeseen needs for capital, we may adopt changes to our capital allocation plans (such as plans related to the timing or amounts of investments or capital expenditures, share repurchases or dividends) or take other actions. For additional discussion about our credit ratings and related considerations, refer to the Capital Resources and Liquidity section within MD&A.
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Prior heading: Borrowings - We may face risks related to our debt levels, particularly if we face severely adverse market conditions.
We have significantly reduced our debt levels over the past several years through debt tenders and other liability management actions, and we expect intend to allocate additional capital maintain a sustainable investment-grade long-term credit rating. Existing debt may adversely impact our ability to obtain new debt reduction financing on favorable terms in the future, particularly if coupled with cash flows from operations and downgrades of our credit ratings or a deterioration of capital markets conditions more generally. There can be no assurance that we will not face future credit rating downgrades as a result of factors such as the proceeds from asset sales and dispositions (including performance of our stakes businesses, reduced diversification of GE’s businesses following the planned separation into three independent companies or changes in AerCap rating application or methodology, and future downgrades could adversely affect our cost of funds, liquidity and competitive position. Further, our swap, forward and option contracts are executed under standard master agreements that typically contain mutual downgrade provisions that provide the ability of the counterparty to require termination if the credit ratings of the applicable GE HealthCare) as sources for that. If entity were to fall below specified ratings levels. In addition, if we are unable to generate cash flows in accordance with our plans, our deleveraging plan could be delayed plans or altered, which may require that face unforeseen needs for capital, we delay investments or capital expenditures. We may be required to adopt one or more alternatives such changes to our capital allocation plans (such as increasing borrowing under credit lines, reducing plans related to the timing or delaying amounts of investments or capital expenditures expenditures, share repurchases or taking other actions. In addition, we have significant pension and run-off insurance liabilities that are sensitive to numerous factors and assumptions that we use in our pension liability, GAAP insurance reserve and statutory insurance calculations. Our debt levels could put us at a competitive disadvantage compared to competitors with lower debt levels that may provide them with greater financial flexibility to secure additional funding for their operations, pursue strategic acquisitions, finance long-term projects dividends) or take other actions. Significant debt levels could also pose risks in the event of recession or adverse industry-specific conditions. In addition, elevated debt may limit our ability to obtain new debt financing on favorable terms or at all in the future, particularly if coupled with downgrades of For additional discussion about our credit ratings or a deterioration of capital markets conditions more generally.and related considerations, refer to the Capital Resources and Liquidity section within MD&A.
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Postretirement benefit plans - Increases in pension, healthcare and life insurance benefits obligations and costs can adversely affect our earnings, cash flows and further progress toward our leverage goals.
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Our results of operations, cash flow and financial condition may be positively or negatively affected by the amount of income or expense we record for our defined benefit pension plans. GAAP requires that we calculate income or expense for the plans using actuarial valuations, which reflect assumptions about financial markets, interest rates and other economic conditions such as the discount rate and the expected long-term rate of return on plan assets. We are also required to make an annual measurement of plan assets and liabilities, which may result in a significant reduction or increase to equity. The factors that impact our pension calculations are subject to changes in key economic indicators, and future decreases in the discount rate or low returns on plan assets can increase our funding obligations and adversely impact our financial results.
In addition, although GAAP expense and pension funding contributions are not directly related, key economic factors that affect GAAP expense, such as sustained market volatility, would also likely affect the amount of cash we would be required to contribute to pension plans under ERISA. Such factors could also result in a failure to achieve expected returns on plan assets. In addition, there may be upward pressure on the cost of providing healthcare benefits to current and future retirees. There can be no assurance that the measures we have taken to control increases in these costs, or that the assignment of assets and liabilities with respect to certain U.S. and non-U.S. benefit plans in connection with GE’s separation into three independent companies, will succeed in limiting cost increases, and continued upward pressure could reduce our profitability. For a discussion regarding how our financial statements have been and can be affected by our pension and healthcare benefit obligations, see Note 13.
LEGAL AND COMPLIANCE RISKS. Legal and compliance risk relates to risks arising from the government and regulatory environment, legal proceedings and compliance with integrity policies and procedures, including matters relating to financial reporting and the environment, health and safety. Government and regulatory risk includes the risk that the government or regulatory actions will impose additional cost on us or require us to make adverse changes to our business models or practices.
Regulatory - We are subject to a wide variety of laws, regulations and government policies that require ongoing compliance efforts and may change in significant ways.
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Our businesses are subject to regulation under a wide variety of U.S. federal and state and non-U.S. laws, regulations and policies that require ongoing compliance efforts. There can be no assurance that laws, regulations and policies will not be changed or interpreted or enforced in ways that will require us to modify our business models and objectives or affect our returns on investments by restricting existing activities and products, subjecting them to escalating costs or prohibiting them outright. In particular, recent trends globally toward increased protectionism, import and export controls, required licenses or authorizations to engage in business dealings with certain countries or entities, the use of tariffs, restrictions on outbound investment and other trade barriers can result in actions by governments around the world that have been and may continue to be disruptive and costly to our businesses, and can interfere with our global operating model and weaken our competitive position.
In addition, changes in environmental and climate change laws, regulations or policies (including carbon pricing, emission standards or sustainable finance, among others) affecting the power or aviation sectors could lead to additional costs or compliance requirements, a need for additional investment in product designs, require carbon offset investments or otherwise negatively impact our businesses or competitive position. Other legislative and regulatory areas of significance for our businesses that U.S. and non-U.S. governments have focused and continue to focus on include cybersecurity, data privacy and sovereignty, artificial intelligence, anti-corruption, competition law, public procurement law, compliance with complex trade controls and economic sanctions laws, technical regulations or local content requirements that could result in market access criteria that our products cannot or do not meet, foreign exchange intervention in response to currency volatility and currency controls that could restrict the movement of liquidity from particular jurisdictions.
Potential changes to tax laws, including changes to taxation of global income, may have an effect on our subsidiaries' structure, operations, sales, liquidity, cash flows, capital requirements, effective tax rate and performance. For example, legislative or regulatory measures by U.S. federal, states or non-U.S. governments, or rules, interpretations or audits under new or existing tax laws such as global minimum taxes or other changes to the treatment of global income could increase our cash tax costs and effective tax rate. Regulation or government scrutiny may impact the requirements for marketing our products and slow our ability to introduce new products, resulting in an adverse impact on our business. Furthermore, we make sales to U.S. and non-U.S. governments and other public sector customers, and we participate in various governmental financing programs, that require us to comply with strict governmental regulations.
As a U.S. government contractor, we are also subject to risks relating to U.S. government audits and investigations that in the past have led, and in the future may lead to, fines, damages or other penalties. Inability to comply with applicable regulations could adversely affect our status with government customers or our ability to participate in projects, and could have collateral consequences such as suspension or debarment. Suspension or debarment, depending on the entity involved and length of time, can limit our ability to bid for new U.S. government contracts or business with other government-related customers, or to participate in projects involving multilateral development banks, and this could adversely affect our results of operations, financial position and cash flows.
Legal proceedings - We are subject to a variety of legal proceedings, disputes, investigations and legal compliance risks, including contingent liabilities from businesses that we have exited or are inactive.
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We are subject to a variety of legal proceedings, commercial disputes, legal compliance risks and environmental, health and safety compliance risks in virtually every part of the world. We, our representatives and the industries in which we operate are subject to continuing scrutiny by regulators, other governmental authorities and private sector entities or individuals in the U.S., the European Union, China and other jurisdictions, which have led or may, in certain circumstances, lead to enforcement actions, adverse changes to our business practices, fines and penalties, required remedial actions such as contaminated site clean-up or other environmental claims, or the assertion of private litigation claims and damages that could be material.
For example, since our acquisition of Alstom's Thermal, Renewables and Grid businesses in 2015, we are subject to legacy legal proceedings and legal compliance risks that relate to claimed anti-competitive conduct or corruption by Alstom in the pre-acquisition period, and payments for settlements, judgments, penalties or other liabilities in connection with those matters have resulted and will in the future result in cash outflows. In addition, while in December 2020 we entered into a settlement to conclude a previously disclosed SEC investigation of GE, we remain subject to shareholder lawsuits related to the Company's financial performance, accounting and disclosure practices and related legacy matters. We have observed that these proceedings related to claims about past financial performance and reporting pose particular reputational risks for the Company that can cause new allegations about past or current misconduct, even if unfounded, to have a more significant impact on our reputation and how we are viewed by investors, customers and others than they otherwise would.
The estimation of legal reserves or possible losses involves significant judgment and may not reflect the full range of uncertainties and unpredictable outcomes inherent in litigation and investigations, and the actual losses arising from particular matters may exceed our current estimates and adversely affect our results of operations. The risk management and compliance programs we have adopted and related actions that we take may not fully mitigate legal and compliance risks that we face, particularly in light of the global and diverse nature of our operations and the current enforcement environments in many jurisdictions. For example, when we investigate potential noncompliance under U.S. and non-U.S. law involving GE employees or third parties we work with, in some circumstances we make self-disclosures about our findings to the relevant authorities who may pursue or decline to pursue enforcement proceedings against us in connection with those matters.
We are also subject to material trailing legal liabilities from businesses that we have exited or are inactive. We also expect that additional legal proceedings and other contingencies will arise from time to time. Moreover, we sell products and services in growth markets where claims arising from alleged violations of law, product failures or other incidents involving our products and services are adjudicated within legal systems that are less developed and less reliable than those of the U.S. or other more developed markets, and this can create additional uncertainty about the outcome of proceedings before courts or other governmental bodies in those markets. See Note 24 for further information about legal proceedings and other loss contingencies.
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS. Refer to Legal Matters and Environmental, Health and Safety Matters in Note 24 to the consolidated financial statements for information relating to legal proceedings.
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Prior heading: Legal proceedings - We are subject to legal proceedings, disputes, investigations and legal compliance risks, including trailing liabilities from businesses that we dispose of or that are inactive.
We are subject to a variety of legal proceedings, commercial disputes, legal compliance risks and environmental, health and safety compliance risks in virtually every part of the world. We, our representatives, representatives and the industries in which we operate are subject to continuing scrutiny by regulators, other governmental authorities and private sector entities or individuals in the U.S., the European Union, China and other jurisdictions, which have led or may, in certain circumstances, lead to enforcement actions, adverse changes to our business practices, fines and penalties, required remedial actions such as contaminated site clean-up or other environmental claims, or the assertion of private litigation claims and/or and damages that could be material. For example, following since our acquisition of Alstom's Thermal, Renewables and Grid businesses in 2015, we are subject to legacy legal proceedings and legal compliance risks that relate to claimed anti-competitive conduct or corruption by Alstom in the pre-acquisition period, and payments for settlements, judgments, penalties or other liabilities in connection with those matters have resulted and will in the future result in cash outflows. In addition, while in December 2020 we entered into a settlement to conclude the a previously disclosed SEC investigation of GE, we remain subject to shareholder lawsuits related to the Company's financial performance, accounting and disclosure practices and related legacy matters. We have observed that these proceedings related to claims about past financial performance and reporting pose particular reputational risks for the Company that can cause new allegations about past or current misconduct, even if unfounded, to have a more significant impact on our reputation and how we are viewed by investors, customers and others than they otherwise would. We have established reserves for legal matters when and as appropriate; however, the The estimation of legal reserves or possible losses involves significant judgment and may not reflect the full range of uncertainties and unpredictable outcomes inherent in litigation and investigations, and the actual losses arising from particular matters may exceed our current estimates and adversely affect our results of operations. The risk management and compliance programs we have adopted and related actions that we take may not fully mitigate legal and compliance risks that we face, particularly in light of the global and diverse nature of our operations and the current enforcement environments in many jurisdictions. For example, when we investigate potential noncompliance under U.S. and non-U.S. law involving GE employees or third parties we work with, in some circumstances we make self-disclosures about our findings to the relevant authorities who may pursue or decline to pursue enforcement proceedings against us in connection with those matters. We are also subject to material trailing legal liabilities from businesses that we dispose of have exited or that are inactive. We also expect that additional legal proceedings and other contingencies will arise from time to time. Moreover, we sell products and services in growth markets where claims arising from alleged violations of law, product failures or other incidents involving our products and services are adjudicated within legal systems that are less developed and less reliable than those of the U.S. or other more developed markets, and this can create additional uncertainty about the outcome of proceedings before courts or other governmental bodies in those markets. See Note 24 for further information about legal proceedings and other loss contingencies. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS. We are reporting the following environmental matter in compliance with SEC requirements to disclose environmental proceedings where a governmental authority is a party and that involve potential monetary sanctions of $300,000 or greater. In July 2022, GE HealthCare received a notice of intention to impose an administrative fine of approximately $0.6 million related to a December 2019 liquid hazardous waste event at its Rehovot, Israel site. The event involved clean room waste that spilled onto an unsealed floor, leading to an escape of a small amount of liquid to a third-party facility on a lower floor. The Israeli Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) concluded that the incident breached the site’s toxins permit. In accordance with local law, GE HealthCare responded to MEP’s notice of fine challenging both the basis for, and level of, the fine. A decision from MEP is pending. With our spin-off of GE HealthCare in January 2023, GE will no longer report on this matter. Refer to Legal Matters and Environmental, Health and Safety Matters in Note 24 to the consolidated financial statements for further information relating to our legal matters. MANAGEMENT AND AUDITOR’S REPORTS MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION OF FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY. Management is responsible for the preparation of the consolidated financial statements and related information that are presented in this report. The consolidated financial statements, which include amounts based on management’s estimates and judgments, have been prepared in conformity with U.S generally accepted accounting principles. The Company designs and maintains accounting and internal control systems to provide reasonable assurance that assets are safeguarded against loss from unauthorized use or disposition, and that the financial records are reliable for preparing consolidated financial statements and maintaining accountability for assets. These systems are enhanced by policies and procedures, an organizational structure providing division of responsibilities, careful selection and training of qualified personnel, and a program of internal audits. The Company engaged Deloitte and Touche LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, to audit and render an opinion on the consolidated financial statements and internal control over financial reporting in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB). The Board of Directors, through its Audit Committee, which consists entirely of independent directors, meets periodically with management, internal auditors, and our independent registered public accounting firm to ensure that each is meeting its responsibilities and to discuss matters concerning internal controls and financial reporting. Deloitte and Touche LLP and the internal auditors each have full and free access to the Audit Committee. MANAGEMENT’S ANNUAL REPORT ON INTERNAL CONTROL OVER FINANCIAL REPORTING. Management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting for the Company. With our participation, an evaluation of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting was conducted as of December 31, 2022, based on the framework and criteria established in Internal Control – Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. Based on this evaluation, our management has concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was effective as of December 31, 2022. Our independent registered public accounting firm has issued an audit report on our internal control over financial reporting. Their report follows. /s/ H. Lawrence Culp, Jr. /s/ Carolina Dybeck Happe H. Lawrence Culp, Jr. Carolina Dybeck Happe Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Chief Financial Officer DISCLOSURE CONTROLS. Under the direction of our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, we evaluated our disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting and concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of December 31, 2022. There have been no changes in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting during the quarter ended December 31, 2022, that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, its internal control over financial reporting. To the shareholders and the Board of Directors of General Electric Company Opinion on the Financial Statements We have audited the accompanying consolidated statements of financial position of General Electric Company and subsidiaries (the "Company") as of December 31, 2022 and 2021, the related consolidated statements of earnings (loss), comprehensive income (loss), changes in shareholders’ equity, and cash flows for the years ended 2022 and 2021, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2022 and 2021, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the years then ended, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. We have also audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), the Company's internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2022, based on criteria established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission and our report dated February 10, 2023, expressed an unqualified opinion on the Company's internal control over financial reporting. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company's financial statements based on our audit. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB. We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. Our audit included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audit also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion. Critical Audit Matters The critical audit matters communicated below are matters arising from the current-period audit of the financial statements that were communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that (1) relate to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments. The communication of critical audit matters does not alter in any way our opinion on the financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matters below, providing separate opinions on the critical audit matters or on the accounts or disclosures to which they relate. Sales of services - Revenue recognition on certain long-term service agreements - Refer to Notes 1 and 8 to the financial statements Critical Audit Matter Description The Company enters into long-term service agreements with certain customers, predominately within the Aerospace and Power segments. These agreements require the Company to provide maintenance services for customer assets over the contract term, which generally range from 5 to 25 years. Revenue for these agreements is recognized using the percentage of completion method, based on costs incurred relative to total estimated costs over the contract term. As part of the revenue recognition process, the Company estimates both customer payments that are expected to be received and costs to perform maintenance services over the contract term. Key estimates that require significant judgment from management include: (a) how the customer will utilize the assets covered over the contract term; (b) the expected timing and extent of future maintenance and overhaul services; (c) the future cost of materials, labor, and other resources; and (d) forward looking information concerning market conditions. Given the complexity involved with evaluating the key estimates, which includes significant judgment necessary to estimate customer payments and future costs, auditing these assumptions required a high degree of auditor judgment and extensive audit effort, including the involvement of professionals with specialized skills and industry knowledge. How the Critical Audit Matter Was Addressed in the Audit Our auditing procedures over the key estimates described above related to the amount and timing of revenue recognition of the long-term service agreements, predominately within the Aerospace and Power segments, included the following, among others: •We tested the effectiveness of controls over the revenue recognition process for the long-term service agreements, including controls over management’s key estimates. •We evaluated management’s risk assessment process through observation of key meetings and processes, including inspection of documentation, addressing contract status and current market conditions including the timely incorporation of changes that affect total estimated costs to complete the contract and future billings. •We evaluated the appropriateness and consistency of management’s methods and key assumptions applied in recognizing revenue and developing cost estimates. •We tested management’s utilization assumptions for the assets covered over the contract term, which impact the estimated timing and extent of future maintenance and overhaul services by comparing current estimates to historical information and projected market conditions. •We tested management’s process for estimating the timing and amount of costs associated with maintenance, overhaul, and other major events throughout the contract term, including comparing estimates to historical cost experience, performing a retrospective review, performing analytical procedures, and utilizing specialists to evaluate engineering studies and statistical models used by the Company to estimate the useful life of certain components of the installed equipment. Premium deficiency testing - future policy benefits – refer to Notes 1 and 12 to the financial statements Critical Audit Matter Description The Company performs premium deficiency testing to assess the adequacy of future policy benefit reserves on an annual basis or whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that a premium deficiency event may have occurred. Significant uncertainties exist in testing cash flow projections in the premium deficiency test for these insurance contracts, including consideration of a wide range of possible outcomes of future events over the life of the insurance contracts that can extend for long periods of time. Given the significant judgments made by management in estimating the cash flow projections used in the premium deficiency test, including the determination of certain key assumptions, auditing the premium deficiency test required a high degree of auditor judgment and an increased extent of effort, including the involvement of our actuarial specialists. Key assumptions impacting the cash flow projections that are sensitive and are more subjective requiring significant judgment by management are discount rate, rate of changes in morbidity, and future long-term care premium rate increases. How the Critical Audit Matter Was Addressed in the Audit Our audit procedures, which included the involvement of our actuarial specialists, related to the premium deficiency analysis included the following, among others: •We tested the effectiveness of controls related to the premium deficiency test process, including controls over the development of key assumptions and management’s judgments related to the development of the cash flow projections. •We tested the underlying data for completeness and accuracy, including historical cash flows that served as the basis for the actuarial estimates. •We evaluated the key assumptions by considering historical actual experience, sensitivity analyses, relevant industry data when available, and management’s basis for changes or lack of change in key assumptions. •We performed recalculations to assess key assumptions were appropriately applied in the cash flow projections. •We evaluated management’s conclusion for the premium deficiency test and verified the results appropriately reflected key assumptions. /s/ DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP We have served as the Company's auditor since 2020. To the shareholders and the Board of Directors of General Electric Company Opinion on Internal Control over Financial Reporting We have audited the internal control over financial reporting of General Electric Company and subsidiaries (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2022, based on criteria established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO). In our opinion, the Company maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2022, based on criteria established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework (2013) issued by COSO. We have also audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), the consolidated financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2022, of the Company and our report dated February 10, 2023, expressed an unqualified opinion on those financial statements. The Company’s management is responsible for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, included in the accompanying Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting based on our audit. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB. We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects. Our audit included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk, and performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion. Definition and Limitations of Internal Control over Financial Reporting A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements. Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate. /s/ DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP To the Board of Directors and Shareholders of General Electric Company: Opinion on the Consolidated Financial Statements We have audited the accompanying consolidated statements of earnings (loss), comprehensive income (loss), changes in shareholders’ equity, and cash flows of the General Electric Company and consolidated affiliates (the Company) for the year ended December 31, 2020, and the related notes (collectively, the consolidated financial statements). In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the results of its operations and its cash flows for the year ended December 31, 2020, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. These consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these consolidated financial statements based on our audit. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB. We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. Our audit included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the consolidated financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the consolidated financial statements. Our audit also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the consolidated financial statements. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion. /s/ KPMG LLP KPMG LLP We served as the Company’s auditor from 1909 to 2020. February 12, 2021, except for the changes described in the third paragraph of note 1 and the fifth paragraph of note 2, as to which the date is February 11, 2022. STATEMENT OF EARNINGS (LOSS) For the years ended December 31 (In millions; per-share amounts in dollars) Sales of equipment Sales of services Insurance revenues (Note 12) Cost of equipment sold Cost of services sold Selling, general and administrative expenses Separation costs (Note 20) Research and development Interest and other financial charges Debt extinguishment costs (Note 10) Insurance losses, annuity benefits and other costs (Note 12) Goodwill impairments (Note 7) Non-operating benefit cost (income)proceedings.
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(a) Included $687 million related to the change in par value of issued common stock from $0.06 to $0.01 in the year ended December 31, 2021. NOTE 1. BASIS OF PRESENTATION AND SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES FINANCIAL STATEMENT PRESENTATION. Our financial statements are prepared in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), which requires us to make estimates based on assumptions about current, and for some estimates, future, economic and market conditions which affect reported amounts and related disclosures in our financial statements. Although our current estimates contemplate current and expected future conditions, as applicable, it is reasonably possible that actual conditions could differ from our expectations, which could materially affect our results of operations, financial position and cash flows. Such changes could result in future impairments of goodwill, intangibles, long-lived assets and investment securities, revisions to estimated profitability on long-term product service agreements, incremental credit losses on receivables and debt securities, a change in the carrying amount of our tax assets and liabilities, or a change in our insurance liabilities and pension obligations as of the time of a relevant measurement event. In preparing our Statement of Cash Flows, we make certain adjustments to reflect cash flows that cannot otherwise be calculated by changes in our Statement of Financial Position. These adjustments may include, but are not limited to, the effects of currency exchange, acquisitions and dispositions of businesses, businesses classified as held for sale, the timing of settlements to suppliers for property, plant and equipment, non-cash gains/losses and other balance sheet reclassifications. We have reclassified certain prior-year amounts to conform to the current-year’s presentation, including retrospective adjustments made in 2021 to present: the remainder of our former Capital segment within Corporate, sales of spare parts within Sales of services and the related costs as Costs of services sold, and earnings per share to reflect the reverse stock split. Unless otherwise noted, tables are presented in U.S. dollars in millions. Certain columns and rows may not add due to the use of rounded numbers. Percentages presented are calculated from the underlying numbers in millions. Earnings per share amounts are computed independently for earnings from continuing operations, earnings from discontinued operations and net earnings. As a result, the sum of per-share amounts may not equal the total. Unless otherwise indicated, information in these notes to consolidated financial statements relates to continuing operations. Certain of our operations have been presented as discontinued. We present businesses whose disposal represents a strategic shift that has, or will have, a major effect on our operations and financial results as discontinued operations when the components meet the criteria for held for sale, are sold, or spun-off. See Note 2 for further information. On January 3, 2023, General Electric Company (the Company or GE) completed the previously announced separation (the Separation) of its HealthCare business, into a separate, independent publicly traded company. See Note 28 for further information. CONSOLIDATION. Our financial statements consolidate all of our affiliates, entities where we have a controlling financial interest, most often because we hold a majority voting interest, or where we are required to apply the variable interest entity (VIE) model because we have the power to direct the most economically significant activities of entities. We reevaluate whether we have a controlling financial interest in all entities when our rights and interests change.
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We recognize revenue on agreements for the sale of customized goods including power generation equipment, long-term construction projects and military development contracts on an over-time basis as we customize the customer's equipment during the manufacturing or integration process and obtain right to payment for work performed. We recognize revenue as we perform under the arrangements using the percentage of completion method, which is based on our costs incurred to date relative to our estimate of total expected costs. Our estimate of costs to be incurred to fulfill our promise to a customer is based on our history of manufacturing or constructing similar assets for customers and is updated routinely to reflect changes in quantity or pricing of the inputs. We provide for potential losses on these agreements when it is probable that we will incur the loss. Our billing terms for these over-time contracts are generally based on achieving specified milestones. The differences between the timing of our revenue recognized (based on costs incurred) and customer billings (based on contractual terms) results in changes to our contract asset or contract liability positions. See Note 8 for further information.
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We recognize revenue on agreements for non-customized equipment including commercial aircraft engines, healthcare equipment and other goods we manufacture on a standardized basis for sale to the market at the point in time that the customer obtains control of the product, which is generally no earlier than when the customer has physical possession. We use proof of delivery for certain large equipment with more complex logistics, whereas the delivery of other equipment is estimated based on historical averages of in-transit periods (i.e., time between shipment and delivery). Where arrangements include customer acceptance provisions based on seller or customer-specified objective criteria, we recognize revenue when we have concluded that the customer has control of the equipment and that acceptance is likely to occur. We do not provide for anticipated losses on point-in-time transactions prior to transferring control of the equipment to the customer. Our billing terms for these point-in-time equipment contracts generally coincide with delivery to the customer; however, within certain businesses, we receive progress collections from customers for large equipment purchases, to generally reserve production slots. REVENUES FROM THE SALE OF SERVICES. Consistent with our Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations (MD&A) discussion and the way we manage our businesses, we refer to sales under service agreements, which includes both goods (such as spare parts and equipment upgrades) and related services (such as monitoring, maintenance and repairs) as sales of “services,” which is an important part of our operations. We sometimes offer our customers financing discounts for the purchase of certain equipment when sold in contemplation of long-term service agreements. These sales are accounted for as financing arrangements when payments for the equipment are collected through higher usage-based fees from servicing the equipment. See Note 8 for further information.
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We enter into long-term service agreements with our customers primarily within our Aerospace and Power segments. These agreements require us to provide preventative maintenance, overhauls, and standby "warranty-type" services that include certain levels of assurance regarding asset performance and uptime throughout the contract periods, which generally range from 5 to 25 years. We account for items that are integral to the maintenance of the equipment as part of our performance obligation, unless the customer has a substantive right to make a separate purchasing decision (e.g., equipment upgrade). We recognize revenue as we perform under the arrangements using the percentage of completion method which is based on our costs incurred to date relative to our estimate of total expected costs. Throughout the life of a contract, this measure of progress captures the nature, timing and extent of our underlying performance activities as our stand-ready services often fluctuate between routine inspections and maintenance, unscheduled service events and major overhauls at predetermined usage intervals. We provide for potential losses on these agreements when it is probable that we will incur the loss. Our billing terms for these arrangements are generally based on the utilization of the asset (e.g., per hour of usage) or upon the occurrence of a major maintenance event within the contract, such as an overhaul. The differences between the timing of our revenue recognized (based on costs incurred) and customer billings (based on contractual terms) results in changes to our contract asset or contract liability positions. See Note 8 for further information. We also enter into long-term services agreements in our HealthCare and Renewable Energy segments. Revenues are recognized for these arrangements on a straight-line basis consistent with the nature, timing and extent of our services, which primarily relate to routine maintenance and as needed equipment repairs. We generally invoice periodically as services are provided.
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We sell certain tangible products, largely spare parts, through our services businesses. We recognize revenues and bill our customers at the point in time that the customer obtains control of the good, which is at the point in time we deliver the spare part to the customer. COLLABORATIVE ARRANGEMENTS. Our Aerospace business enters into collaborative arrangements and joint ventures with manufacturers and suppliers of components used to build and maintain certain engines. Under these arrangements, GE and its collaborative partners share in the risks and rewards of these programs through various revenue, cost and profit sharing payment structures. GE recognizes revenue and costs for these arrangements based on the scope of work GE is responsible for transferring to its customers. GE’s payments to participants are primarily recorded as either cost of services sold ($2,898 million, $2,125 million and $2,407 million for the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021, and 2020, respectively) or as cost of equipment sold ($658 million, $751 million and $1,093 million for the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, respectively). Our most significant collaborative arrangement is with Safran Aircraft Engines, a subsidiary of Safran Group of France, which sells LEAP and CFM56 engines through CFM International, a jointly owned non-consolidated company. GE makes substantial sales of parts and services to CFM International based on arms-length terms. INSURANCE REVENUES. Insurance revenues are comprised primarily of premiums and investment income related to our run-off Insurance business. For traditional long-duration insurance contracts, we report premiums as revenue when due. Premiums received on non-traditional long-duration insurance contracts and investment contracts, including annuities without significant mortality risk, are not reported as revenues but rather as deposit liabilities. We recognize revenues for charges and assessments on these contracts, mostly for mortality, contract initiation, administration and surrender. Amounts credited to policyholder accounts are charged to expense. CASH, CASH EQUIVALENTS AND RESTRICTED CASH. Debt securities and money market instruments with original maturities of three months or less are included in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash unless classified as available-for-sale investment securities. Restricted cash primarily comprised funds restricted in connection with certain ongoing litigation matters and amounted to $745 million and $317 million at December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. INVESTMENT SECURITIES. We report investments in available-for-sale debt securities and certain equity securities at fair value. Unrealized gains and losses on available-for-sale debt securities are recorded to other comprehensive income, net of applicable taxes and adjustments related to our insurance liabilities. Unrealized gains and losses on equity securities with readily determinable fair values are recorded to earnings. Although we generally do not have the intent to sell any specific debt securities in the ordinary course of managing our portfolio, we may sell debt securities prior to their maturities for a variety of reasons, including diversification, credit quality, yield and liquidity requirements and the funding of claims and obligations to policyholders. We regularly review investment securities for impairment. For debt securities, if we do not intend to sell the security or it is not more likely than not that we will be required to sell the security before recovery of our amortized cost, we evaluate qualitative criteria, such as the financial health of and specific prospects for the issuer, to determine whether we do not expect to recover the amortized cost basis of the security. We also evaluate quantitative criteria including determining whether there has been an adverse change in expected future cash flows. If we do not expect to recover the entire amortized cost basis of the security, we consider the security to contain an expected credit loss, and we record the difference between the security’s amortized cost basis and its recoverable amount in earnings as an allowance for credit loss and the difference between the security’s recoverable amount and fair value in other comprehensive income. If we intend to sell the security or it is more likely than not we will be required to sell the security before recovery of its amortized cost basis, the security is considered impaired, and we recognize the entire difference between the security’s amortized cost basis and its fair value in earnings. See Note 3 for further information. CURRENT RECEIVABLES. Amounts due from customers arising from the sales of equipment and services are recorded at the outstanding amount, less allowance for losses. We regularly monitor the recoverability of our receivables. See Note 4 for further information. ALLOWANCE FOR CREDIT LOSSES. When we record customer receivables, contract assets and financing receivables arising from revenue transactions, as well as commercial mortgage loans and reinsurance recoverables in our run-off insurance operations, financial guarantees and certain commitments, we record an allowance for credit losses for the current expected credit losses (CECL) inherent in the asset over its expected life. The allowance for credit losses is a valuation account deducted from the amortized cost basis of the assets to present their net carrying value at the amount expected to be collected. Each period, the allowance for credit losses is adjusted through earnings to reflect expected credit losses over the remaining lives of the assets. We evaluate debt securities with unrealized losses to determine whether any of the losses arise from concerns about the issuer’s credit or the underlying collateral and record an allowance for credit losses, if required. We estimate expected credit losses based on relevant information about past events, including historical experience, current conditions, and reasonable and supportable forecasts that affect the collectability of the reported amount. When measuring expected credit losses, we pool assets with similar country risk and credit risk characteristics. Changes in the relevant information may significantly affect the estimates of expected credit losses. INVENTORIES. All inventories are stated at lower of cost or realizable values. Cost of inventories is primarily determined on a first-in, first-out (FIFO) basis. See Note 5 for further information. PROPERTY, PLANT AND EQUIPMENT. The cost of property, plant and equipment is generally depreciated on a straight-line basis over its estimated economic life. See Note 6 for further information. LEASE ACCOUNTING FOR LESSEE ARRANGEMENTS. At lease commencement, we record a lease liability and corresponding right-of-use (ROU) asset. Options to extend the lease are included as part of the ROU lease asset and liability when it is reasonably certain the Company will exercise the option. We have elected to include lease and non-lease components in determining our lease liability for all leased assets except our vehicle leases. Non-lease components are generally services that the lessor performs for the Company associated with the leased asset. The present value of our lease liability is determined using our incremental collateralized borrowing rate at lease inception. For leases with an initial term of 12 months or less, an ROU asset and lease liability is not recognized and lease expense is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term. We test ROU assets whenever events or changes in circumstance indicate that the asset may be impaired. GOODWILL AND OTHER INTANGIBLE ASSETS. We test goodwill at least annually for impairment at the reporting unit level. We recognize an impairment charge if the carrying amount of a reporting unit exceeds its fair value. When a portion of a reporting unit is disposed, goodwill is allocated to the gain or loss on disposition based on the relative fair values of the business or businesses disposed and the portion of the reporting unit that will be retained. For other intangible assets that are not deemed indefinite-lived, cost is generally amortized on a straight-line basis over the asset’s estimated economic life, except for individually significant customer-related intangible assets that are amortized in relation to total related sales. Amortizable intangible assets are reviewed for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the related carrying amounts may not be recoverable. In these circumstances, they are tested for impairment based on undiscounted cash flows and, if impaired, written down to estimated fair value based on either discounted cash flows or appraised values. See Note 7 for further information. DERIVATIVES AND HEDGING. We use derivatives to manage a variety of risks, including risks related to interest rates, foreign exchange, certain equity investments and commodity prices. Accounting for derivatives as hedges requires that, at inception and over the term of the arrangement, the hedged item and related derivative meet the requirements for hedge accounting. In evaluating whether a particular relationship qualifies for hedge accounting, we test effectiveness at inception and each reporting period thereafter by determining whether changes in the fair value of the derivative offset, within a specified range, changes in the fair value of the hedged item. If fair value changes fail this test, we discontinue applying hedge accounting to that relationship prospectively. Fair values of both the derivative instrument and the hedged item are calculated using internal valuation models incorporating market-based assumptions, subject to third-party confirmation, as applicable. See Note 22 for further information. DEFERRED INCOME TAXES. Deferred income tax balances reflect the effects of temporary differences between the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities and their tax bases, as well as from net operating loss and tax credit carryforwards, and are stated at enacted tax rates expected to be in effect when those taxes are paid or recovered. Deferred income tax assets represent amounts available to reduce income taxes payable on taxable income in future years. We evaluate the recoverability of these future tax deductions and credits by assessing the adequacy of future expected taxable income from all sources, including reversal of taxable temporary differences, forecasted operating earnings and available tax planning strategies. To the extent we consider it more likely than not that a deferred tax asset will not be recovered, a valuation allowance is established. Deferred taxes, as needed, are provided for our investment in affiliates and associated companies when we plan to remit those earnings. See Note 15 for further information. INSURANCE LIABILITIES AND ANNUITY BENEFITS. Our run-off insurance operations include providing insurance and reinsurance for life and health risks and providing certain annuity products. Primary product types include long-term care, structured settlement annuities, life and disability insurance contracts and investment contracts. Insurance contracts are contracts with significant mortality and/or morbidity risks, while investment contracts are contracts without such risks. Liabilities for traditional long-duration insurance contracts include both future policy benefit reserves and claims reserves. Future policy benefit reserves represent the present value of future policy benefits less the present value of future gross premiums based on actuarial assumptions. Liabilities for investment contracts equal the account value, that is, the amount that accrues to the benefit of the contract or policyholder including credited interest and assessments through the financial statement date. Claim reserves are established when a claim is incurred or is estimated to have been incurred and represent our best estimate of the present value of the ultimate obligations for future claim payments and claim adjustments expenses. To the extent that unrealized gains on specific investment securities supporting our insurance contracts would result in a premium deficiency, should those gains be realized, an increase in future policy benefit reserves is recorded, with an offsetting after-tax reduction to net unrealized gains recorded in other comprehensive income. Reinsurance recoverables are recorded when we cede insurance risk to third parties but are not relieved from our primary obligation to policyholders and cedents. When losses on ceded risks give rise to claims for recovery, we establish allowances for probable losses on such receivables from reinsurers as required. See Note 12 for further information. POSTRETIREMENT BENEFIT PLANS. We sponsor a number of pension and retiree health and life insurance benefit plans that we present in three categories, principal pension plans, other pension plans and principal retiree benefit plans. We use a December 31 measurement date for these plans. On our Statement of Financial Position, we measure our plan assets at fair value and the obligations at the present value of the estimated payments to plan participants. Participants earn benefits based on their service and pay. Those estimated future payment amounts are determined based on assumptions. Differences between our actual results and what we assumed are recorded in a separate component of equity each period. These differences are amortized into earnings over the remaining average future service of active employees or the expected life of inactive participants, as applicable, who participate in the plan. See Note 13 for further information. LOSS CONTINGENCIES. Loss contingencies are existing conditions, situations or circumstances involving uncertainty as to possible loss that will ultimately be resolved when future events occur or fail to occur. Such contingencies include, but are not limited to environmental obligations, litigation, regulatory investigations and proceedings, product quality and losses resulting from other events and developments. When a loss is considered probable and reasonably estimable, we record a liability in the amount of our best estimate for the ultimate loss. When there appears to be a range of possible costs with equal likelihood, liabilities are based on the low-end of such range. Disclosure is provided for material loss contingencies when a loss is probable but a reasonable estimate cannot be made, and when it is reasonably possible that a loss will be incurred or the amount of a loss will exceed the recorded provision. We regularly review contingencies to determine whether the likelihood of loss has changed and to assess whether a reasonable estimate of the loss or range of loss can be made. See Note 24 for further information. SUPPLY CHAIN FINANCE PROGRAMS. We evaluate supply chain finance programs to ensure where we use a third-party intermediary to settle our trade payables, their involvement does not change the nature, existence, amount, or timing of our trade payables and does not provide the Company with any direct economic benefit. If any characteristics of the trade payables change or we receive a direct economic benefit, we reclassify the trade payables as borrowings. FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENTS. The following sections describe the valuation methodologies we use to measure financial and non-financial instruments accounted for at fair value including certain assets within our pension plans and retiree benefit plans. Observable inputs reflect market data obtained from independent sources, while unobservable inputs reflect our market assumptions. These inputs establish a fair value hierarchy: Level 1 – Quoted prices for identical instruments in active markets; Level 2 – Quoted prices for similar instruments in active markets; quoted prices for identical or similar instruments in markets that are not active; and model-derived valuations whose inputs are observable or whose significant value drivers are observable; and Level 3 – Significant inputs to the valuation model are unobservable. RECURRING FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENTS. For financial assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis, primarily investment securities and derivatives, fair value is the price we would receive to sell an asset or pay to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction with a market participant at the measurement date. In the absence of active markets for the identical assets or liabilities, such measurements involve developing assumptions based on market observable data and, in the absence of such data, internal information that is consistent with what market participants would use in a hypothetical transaction that occurs at the measurement date. See Note 21 for further information. Debt Securities. When available, we use quoted market prices to determine the fair value of debt securities which are included in Level 1. For our remaining debt securities, we obtain pricing information from an independent pricing vendor. The inputs and assumptions to the pricing vendor’s models are derived from market observable sources including benchmark yields, reported trades, broker/dealer quotes, issuer spreads, benchmark securities, bids, offers and other market-related data. These investments are included in Level 2. Our pricing vendors may also provide us with valuations that are based on significant unobservable inputs, and in those circumstances, we classify the investment securities in Level 3. Annually, we conduct reviews of our primary pricing vendor to validate that the inputs used in that vendor’s pricing process are deemed to be market observable as defined in the standard. We believe that the prices received from our pricing vendor are representative of prices that would be received to sell the assets at the measurement date (exit prices) and are classified appropriately in the hierarchy. We use non-binding broker quotes and other third-party pricing services as our primary basis for valuation when there is limited, or no, relevant market activity for a specific instrument or for other instruments that share similar characteristics. Debt securities priced in this manner are included in Level 3.
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These publicly traded equity securities are valued using quoted prices and are included in Level 1. Derivatives. The majority of our derivatives are valued using internal models. The models maximize the use of market observable inputs including interest rate curves and both forward and spot prices for currencies and commodities. Derivative assets and liabilities included in Level 2 primarily represent interest rate swaps, cross-currency swaps and foreign currency and commodity forward and option contracts.
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Most investments are generally valued using the net asset value (NAV) per share as a practical expedient for fair value provided certain criteria are met. The NAVs are determined based on the fair values of the underlying investments in the funds. Investments that are measured at fair value using the NAV practical expedient are not required to be classified in the fair value hierarchy. Investments classified within Level 3 primarily relate to real estate and private equities which are valued using unobservable inputs, primarily by discounting expected future cash flows, using comparative market multiples, third-party pricing sources, or a combination of these approaches as appropriate. See Note 13 for further information. NONRECURRING FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENTS. Certain assets are measured at fair value on a nonrecurring basis. These assets may include loans and long-lived assets reduced to fair value upon classification as held for sale, impaired loans based on the fair value of the underlying collateral, impaired equity securities without readily determinable fair value, equity method investments and long-lived assets, and remeasured retained investments in formerly consolidated subsidiaries upon a change in control that results in the deconsolidation of that subsidiary and retention of a noncontrolling stake in the entity. Assets written down to fair value when impaired and retained investments are not subsequently adjusted to fair value unless further impairment occurs.
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Equity investments without readily determinable fair value and associated companies are valued using market observable data such as transaction prices when available. When market observable data is unavailable, investments are valued using either a discounted cash flow model, comparative market multiples, third-party pricing sources or a combination of these approaches as appropriate. These investments are generally included in Level 3. Long-lived Assets. Fair values of long-lived assets are primarily derived internally and are based on observed sales transactions for similar assets. In other instances for which we do not have comparable observed sales transaction data, collateral values are developed internally and corroborated by external appraisal information. Adjustments to third-party valuations may be performed in circumstances where market comparables are not specific to the attributes of the specific collateral or appraisal information may not be reflective of current market conditions due to the passage of time and the occurrence of market events since receipt of the information. ACCOUNTING CHANGES. The adoption of the new guidance on accounting for long duration insurance contracts on January 1, 2023 will significantly change the accounting for measurements of our long-duration insurance liabilities and reinsurance recoverables and materially affect our consolidated financial statements. We currently estimate a decrease in Shareholders’ equity at the transition date of January 1, 2021 from adoption of the new guidance to be in an after-tax range of $7 billion to $8 billion, including approximately $5.5 billion to $6 billion in Accumulated other comprehensive income (AOCI) and $1.5 billion to $2 billion in Retained earnings. As of December 31, 2022, we estimate the after-tax decrease in Shareholders' equity to be reduced to approximately $3 billion to $4 billion, primarily due to changes in the market interest rate environment subsequent to the transition date. NOTE 2. BUSINESSES HELD FOR SALE AND DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS. In the first quarter of 2022, we signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding to sell a portion of our Steam business within our Power segment to Électricité de France S.A. (EDF). In the fourth quarter of 2022, we signed a binding agreement for this transaction, and we expect to complete the sale, subject to regulatory approval, in the second half of 2023. Closing the transaction is expected to result in a significant gain. In the fourth quarter of 2022, we classified our captive industrial insurance subsidiary, with assets of $638 million and liabilities of $372 million, into held for sale and recorded a loss of $17 million in Other income (loss) in our Statement of Earnings (Loss). We expect to complete the sale of this business, subject to regulatory approval, by the first half of 2024. In the fourth quarter of 2021, we completed the sale of GE's share of our boiler manufacturing business in China in our Power segment. In connection with the transaction, we recorded a loss on the disposal of this business of $170 million in Other income (loss) in our consolidated Statement of Earnings (Loss). See Note 19 for further information. On March 31, 2020, we completed the sale of our BioPharma business within our HealthCare segment for total consideration of $21,112 million (after certain working capital adjustments) and incurred $185 million of cash payments directly associated with the transaction. As a result, in 2020, we recognized a pre-tax gain of $12,362 million ($11,213 million after-tax) in our Statement of Earnings (Loss). ASSETS AND LIABILITIES OF BUSINESSES HELD FOR SALE Current receivables, inventories and contract assets Non-current captive insurance investment securities Property, plant and equipment and intangible assets - net
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DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS primarily comprise our GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) business, discontinued in 2021, our mortgage portfolio in Poland, and other trailing assets and liabilities associated with prior dispositions. Results of operations, financial position and cash flows for these businesses are reported as discontinued operations for all periods presented and the notes to the financial statements have been adjusted on a retrospective basis. GECAS/AerCap. On November 1, 2021, we completed the combination of our GECAS business with AerCap Holdings N.V. (AerCap). We deconsolidated this business, reclassified its results to discontinued operations for all periods presented and recognized a non-cash after-tax loss of $3,882 million in discontinued operations for the year ended December 31, 2021. We have continuing involvement with AerCap, primarily through our ownership interest, ongoing sales or leases of products and services, and transition services that we provide to AerCap. For the year ended December 31, 2022, we had direct and indirect sales of $162 million to AerCap, primarily related to engine services and sales, and purchases of $174 million from AerCap, primarily related to engine leases. We paid net cash of $48 million to AerCap related to this activity. Bank BPH. The mortgage portfolio in Poland (Bank BPH) comprises floating rate residential mortgages, 85% of which are indexed to or denominated in foreign currencies (primarily Swiss francs). At December 31, 2022, the total portfolio had a carrying value, net of reserves, of $1,199 million. The portfolio is recorded at the lower of cost or fair value, less cost to sell, which reflects market yields as well as estimates with respect to ongoing litigation in Poland related to foreign currency-denominated mortgages and other factors. Loss from discontinued operations included $720 million, $509 million and $121 million non-cash pre-tax charges for the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, respectively, reflecting estimates with respect to ongoing litigation as well as market yields. To ensure appropriate capital levels, we made capital contributions in cash of $530 million and $360 million into Bank BPH during the second quarter of 2022 and fourth quarter of 2021, respectively. Future changes in the estimated legal liabilities or market yields could result in further losses and capital contributions related to these loans in future reporting periods beyond the amounts that we currently estimate. See Note 24 for further information. RESULTS OF DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS GECAS
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(a) Earnings (loss) of discontinued operations from GECAS operations included zero, $359 million and $2,545 million of depreciation and amortization for the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, respectively. GECAS depreciation and amortization ceased on March 10, 2021. ASSETS AND LIABILITIES OF DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash Financing receivables held for sale (Polish mortgage portfolio) Property, plant, and equipment - net
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NOTE 3. INVESTMENT SECURITIES. All of our debt securities are classified as available-for-sale and substantially all are investment-grade supporting obligations to annuitants and policyholders in our run-off insurance operations. We manage the investments in our run-off insurance operations under strict investment guidelines, including limitations on asset class concentration, single issuer exposures, asset-liability duration variances, and other factors to meet credit quality, yield, liquidity and diversification requirements associated with servicing our insurance liabilities under reasonable circumstances. This process includes consideration of various asset allocation strategies and incorporates information from several external investment advisors to improve our investment yield subject to maintaining our ability to satisfy insurance liabilities when due, as well as considering our risk-based capital requirements, regulatory constraints, and tolerance for surplus volatility. Asset allocation planning is a dynamic process that considers changes in market conditions, risk appetite, liquidity needs and other factors, which are reviewed on a periodic basis by our investment team. On November 1, 2021, we received 111.5 million ordinary shares of AerCap (approximately 46% ownership interest) and an AerCap senior note as partial consideration in conjunction with the GECAS transaction, for which we have adopted the fair value option. Our investment in Baker Hughes (BKR) comprises 7.0 million shares (approximately 1% ownership interest) at December 31, 2022. Both our AerCap and BKR investments are recorded as Equity securities with readily determinable fair values. Investment securities held within insurance entities are classified as non-current as they support the long-duration insurance liabilities. Amortized cost gains losses Amortized cost gains losses Equity and note (AerCap) Equity (Baker Hughes) Current investment securities Debt U.S. corporate Non-U.S. corporate State and municipal Mortgage and asset-backed Government and agencies Other equity Non-current investment securities The amortized cost of debt securities excludes accrued interest of $457 million and $415 million at December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively, which is reported in All other current assets. The estimated fair value of investment securities at December 31, 2022 decreased since December 31, 2021, primarily due to higher market yields and widening credit spreads, BKR share sales, and the mark-to-market effect on our equity interest in AerCap, partially offset by new insurance investments, including related to the recapture transaction, and the mark-to-market effect on our remaining equity interest in BKR. See Note 12 for further information about the recapture transaction. Total estimated fair value of debt securities in an unrealized loss position were $21,482 million and $3,446 million, of which $3,275 million and $644 million had gross unrealized losses of $(835) million and $(42) million and had been in a loss position for 12 months or more at December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. Gross unrealized losses of $(3,143) million at December 31, 2022 included $(2,164) million related to U.S. corporate securities, $(182) million related to commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) collateralized by pools of commercial mortgage loans on real estate, and $(106) million related to Asset-backed securities. The majority of our U.S. corporate securities' gross unrealized losses were in the consumer, electric, technology, insurance and energy industries. The majority of our CMBS and Asset-backed securities in an unrealized loss position have received investment-grade credit ratings from the major rating agencies. For our securities in an unrealized loss position, the losses are not indicative of credit losses, we currently do not intend to sell the investments, and it is not likely that we will be required to sell the investments before recovery of their amortized cost basis. Net unrealized gains (losses) for equity securities with readily determinable fair values, which are recorded in Other income (loss) within continuing operations, were $(65) million, $1,656 million and $(1,670) million for the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, respectively. Proceeds from debt and equity securities sales, early redemptions by issuers and principal payments on the BKR promissory note totaled $7,268 million, $6,666 million and $5,060 million for the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, respectively. Gross realized gains on debt securities were $34 million, $69 million and $173 million for the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, respectively. Gross realized losses and impairments on debt securities were $(42) million, $(11) million and $(68) million for the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, respectively. Cash flows associated with purchases, dispositions and maturities of insurance investment securities are as follows: Purchases of investment securities Dispositions and maturities of investment securities
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Contractual maturities of our debt securities (excluding mortgage and asset-backed securities) at December 31, 2022 are as follows: Amortized cost Estimated fair value Within one year After one year through five years After five years through ten years After ten years We expect actual maturities to differ from contractual maturities because borrowers have the right to call or prepay certain obligations. In addition to the equity securities described above, we hold $731 million and $441 million of equity securities without readily determinable fair values at December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively, that are classified within non-current All other assets in our Statement of Financial Position. Fair value adjustments, including impairments, recorded in earnings were $(11) million, $46 million and $(141) million for the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, respectively. Our run-off insurance operations have approximately $800 million of assets held by states or other regulatory bodies in statutorily required deposit accounts, and approximately $29,700 million of assets held in trust accounts, including $2,300 million to be added in the first quarter of 2023, associated with reinsurance contracts and reinsurance security trust agreements in place between either Employers Reassurance Corporation (ERAC) or Union Fidelity Life Insurance Company (UFLIC) as the reinsuring entity and a number of ceding insurers. Assets in these trusts are held by an independent trustee for the benefit of the ceding insurer, and are subject to various investment guidelines as set forth in the respective reinsurance contracts and trust agreements. Some of these trust agreements may allow a ceding company to withdraw trust assets from the trust and hold these assets on its balance sheet, in an account under its control for the benefit of ERAC or UFLIC which might allow the ceding company to exercise investment control over such assets. NOTE 4. CURRENT AND LONG-TERM RECEIVABLES CURRENT RECEIVABLES Customer receivables Revenue sharing program receivables(a) Non-income based tax receivables Supplier advances Receivables from disposed businesses Other sundry receivables Allowance for credit losses(b) Total current receivables (a) Revenue sharing program receivables in Aerospace are amounts due from third parties who participate in engine programs by developing and supplying certain engine components through the life of the program. The participants share in program revenues, receive a share of customer progress payments and share costs related to discounts and warranties. (b) Allowance for credit losses decreased primarily due to write-offs, recoveries and foreign currency impact, partially offset by net new provisions of $48 million.
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(a) Included costs incurred prior to production (such as requisition engineering) for equipment production contracts, primarily within our Aerospace segment, which are amortized ratably over each unit produced. (b) Included amounts due from customers at Aerospace for the sales of engines, spare parts and services, and at Power, for the sale of services upgrades, which we collect through incremental fixed or usage-based fees from servicing the equipment under long-term service agreements. Progress collections and deferred income increased $763 million primarily due new collections received in excess of revenue recognition at Aerospace, including increased collections to support higher production, and at Renewable Energy, partially offset by a decrease at Power due to the reclassification of a portion of our GE Steam Power business to held for sale. Revenues recognized for contracts included in a liability position at the beginning of the year were $13,863 million and $14,884 million for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. Progress collections on equipment contracts Other progress collections Current deferred income Non-current deferred income
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NOTE 9. ALL OTHER ASSETS Derivative instruments (Note 22) Assets held for sale Prepaid taxes and deferred charges Cash collateral on derivatives Accrued interest and investment income
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Equity method and other investments Long-term receivables (Note 4) Prepaid taxes and deferred charges Insurance receivables Insurance cash and cash equivalents(a) Pension surplus
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(a) Cash and cash equivalents in our insurance entities are subject to regulatory restrictions and used for operations of those entities. Therefore, the balance is included in All other assets. Equity method investments. Unconsolidated entities over which we have significant influence are accounted for as equity method investments and presented on a one-line basis in All other assets on our Statement of Financial Position. Equity method income includes our share of the results of unconsolidated entities, gains (loss) from sales and impairments of investments, which is included in Other income and in Insurance revenues in our Statement of Earnings (Loss). See Note 1 for further information.
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(a) Equity method investments within Corporate include investments held by EFS of $1,975 million and $1,943 million and held by our run-off insurance operations of $1,980 million and $1,480 million as of December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. NOTE 10. BORROWINGS Current portion of long-term borrowings Senior notes issued by GE Senior and subordinated notes assumed by GE Senior notes issued by GE Capital Total short-term borrowings Maturities Senior notes issued by GE Senior and subordinated notes assumed by GE Senior notes issued by GE Capital Total long-term borrowings Total borrowings The Company has provided a full and unconditional guarantee on the payment of the principal and interest on all senior and subordinated outstanding long-term debt securities issued by subsidiaries of GE Capital, our former financial services business. This guarantee applied to $5,258 million and $13,719 million of senior notes and other debt issued by GE Capital at December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. In the fourth quarter of 2022, GE HealthCare issued a total of $8,250 million in aggregate principal amount of senior unsecured debt, comprising $1,000 million of 5.55% Notes due 2024, $1,500 million of 5.60% Notes due 2025, $1,750 million of 5.65% Notes due 2027, $1,250 million of 5.857% Notes due 2030, $1,750 million of 5.905% Notes due 2032, and $1,000 million of 6.377% Notes due 2052. GE used the majority of the proceeds to complete a debt tender to repurchase a total of $7,234 million of debt, comprising $6,106 million of Capital issued debt with maturities ranging from 2032 through 2035, and $1,128 million of GE assumed debt due 2032. See Note 22 for further information about borrowings and associated interest rate swaps. Long-term debt maturities over the next five years follow. Debt issued by GE Debt assumed by GE Debt issued by GE Capital (a)Fixed and floating rate notes of $363 million contain put options with exercise dates in 2023, which have final maturity beyond 2034. The total interest payments on consolidated borrowings are estimated to be $1,367 million, $1,289 million, $1,195 million, $1,052 million and $988 million for 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 and 2027, respectively. NOTE 11. ACCOUNTS PAYABLE AND EQUIPMENT PROJECT PAYABLES Trade payables Supply chain finance programs Equipment project payables(a) Non-income based tax payables
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(a) Primarily related to projects in our Power and Renewable Energy segments. NOTE 12. INSURANCE LIABILITIES AND ANNUITY BENEFITS. Insurance liabilities and annuity benefits comprise substantially all obligations to annuitants and insureds in our run-off insurance operations. Our insurance operations (net of eliminations) generated revenues of $2,954 million, $3,106 million and $2,865 million, profit was $60 million, $566 million and $197 million and net earnings was $44 million, $444 million and $143 million for the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, respectively. These operations were supported by assets of $44,197 million and $49,894 million at December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. A summary of our insurance contracts is presented below: Long-term care
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Future policy benefit reserves Claim reserves Investment contracts Unearned premiums and other Future policy benefit reserves Claim reserves(b) Investment contracts Unearned premiums and other (a) The decrease in Other adjustments of $3,394 million is a result of the decline in unrealized gains on investment securities. (b) Other contracts included claim reserves of $242 million related to short-duration contracts at Electric Insurance Company (EIC), net of eliminations, at December 31, 2021. EIC is a property and casualty insurance company primarily providing insurance to GE and its employees. Claim reserve activity included incurred claims of $1,481 million, $1,699 million and $1,801 million, of which insignificant amounts related to the recognition of adjustments to prior year claim reserves arising from our periodic reserve evaluation in the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, respectively. Paid claims were $1,518 million, $1,709 million and $1,728 million in the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, respectively. Reinsurance recoveries are recorded as a reduction of insurance losses and annuity benefits in our Statement of Earnings (Loss) and amounted to $321 million, $351 million and $350 million for the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, respectively. Reinsurance recoverables, net of allowances of an insignificant amount and $1,654 million, are included in non-current All other assets in our Statement of Financial Position, and amounted to $132 million and $2,651 million at December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. In the third quarter of 2022, we agreed to terminate substantially all long-term care insurance exposures previously ceded to a single reinsurance company (recapture transaction) and recorded an increase to our allowance for credit losses on such reinsurance recoverables of $415 million (pre-tax) ($328 million (after-tax)) which is unrelated to changes in claim experience or projections of future policy benefit reserves. Upon closing of the recapture transaction in the fourth quarter of 2022, we received a net portfolio of investment securities with an estimated fair value of $2,396 million in complete settlement of reinsurance recoverables previously recognized under retrocession agreements with the reinsurance company, which represented substantially all of our reinsurance recoverables balance as of September 30, 2022 and recorded an incremental loss of $56 million (pre-tax) ($44 million (after-tax)). The recapture transaction reduces both our financial and operational risks by removing the future inherent risk of collectability of reinsurance recoverables, eliminating retrocession contracts having complex terms and conditions, assuming direct control of the portfolio of investment securities held in a trust for our benefit and redeploying those assets consistent with our portfolio realignment strategy and establishing administration service standards intended to enhance claim administration and innovation efforts. The effect of the recapture agreement does not increase our long-term care insurance liabilities as under the existing retrocession agreements we were not previously relieved of our primary obligation to companies from which we originally assumed the liabilities. In addition, we do not expect changes to projected statutory funding as a result of the recapture transaction. Premium Deficiency Testing. We completed our annual premium deficiency testing in the aggregate across our run-off insurance portfolio in the third quarter of 2022. These procedures included updating certain experience studies since our last test completed in the third quarter of 2021, independent actuarial analysis (principally on long-term care insurance exposures) and review of industry benchmarks. Using updated assumptions, the 2022 premium deficiency testing results indicated a positive margin of about 10% of the related future policy benefit reserves recorded at September 30, 2022, or approximately equivalent to the 2021 premium deficiency testing results. The premium deficiency testing margin in 2022 was impacted by a lower discount rate in our ERAC portfolio due to the recapture transaction, as explained above, partially offset by higher prevailing benchmark interest rates in the U.S. The portfolio of investment securities expected to be received from the recapture transaction were assumed to be invested at yields below ERAC’s current portfolio yield before ultimately grading to the long-term average investment yield as we reinvest the portfolio over time. This effect was partially offset by the net impact from assumed moderately higher near-term mortality related to COVID-19 in the aggregate across our run-off insurance products (i.e., for life insurance products, higher mortality increases the present value of expected future benefit payments, while for annuity and long-term care insurance contracts, higher mortality decreases the present value of expected future benefit payments). Excluding the net impact from assumed moderately higher near-term mortality related to COVID-19, we have made no substantial change to our assumptions concerning morbidity, morbidity improvement, mortality, mortality improvement, terminations, or long-term care insurance premium rate increases in 2022. We regularly monitor emerging experience and industry developments, including these factors, to help us refine all our reserve assumptions, which may result in future changes to those assumptions. Statutory accounting practices, not GAAP, determine the required statutory capital levels of our insurance legal entities. Statutory accounting practices are set forth by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) as well as state laws, regulation and general administrative rules and differ in certain respects from GAAP. We annually perform statutory asset adequacy testing and expect our December 31, 2022 testing process to be completed in the first quarter of 2023, the results of which may affect the amount or timing of capital contributions from GE to the insurance legal entities. Following approval of a statutory permitted accounting practice in 2018 by our primary regulator, the Kansas Insurance Department (KID), we provided a total of $11,400 million of capital contributions to our run-off insurance subsidiaries. We expect to provide further capital contributions of approximately $3,600 million through 2024 (of which approximately $1,800 million is expected to be contributed in the first quarter of 2023, pending completion of our December 31, 2022 statutory reporting process, which includes asset adequacy testing), subject to ongoing monitoring by KID. GE is a party to capital maintenance agreements with its run-off insurance subsidiaries under which GE is required to maintain their statutory capital levels at 300% of their year-end Authorized Control Level risk-based capital requirements as defined from time to time by the NAIC. NOTE 13. POSTRETIREMENT BENEFIT PLANS PENSION BENEFITS AND RETIREE HEALTH AND LIFE BENEFITS. We sponsor a number of pension and retiree health and life insurance benefit plans that we present in three categories, principal pension plans, other pension plans and principal retiree benefit plans. Smaller pension plans with pension assets or obligations that have not reached $50 million and other retiree benefit plans are not presented. Information in this Note is as of a December 31 measurement date for these plans and does not reflect the impact of the GE HealthCare Separation, including the legal split and the transfer of certain postretirement benefit plans. See Note 28 for information regarding the legal split and the transfer of certain postretirement benefit plans to GE HealthCare in connection with the Separation. DESCRIPTION OF OUR PLANS Plan Category Participants Funding Comments Principal Pension Plans GE Pension Plan Covers U.S. participants ~177,000 retirees and beneficiaries, ~82,500 vested former employees and ~23,000 active employees Our funding policy is to contribute amounts sufficient to meet minimum funding requirements under employee benefit and tax laws. We may decide to contribute additional amounts beyond this level. This plan has been closed to new participants since 2012. Benefits for ~20,000 employees with salaried benefits were frozen effective January 1, 2021, and thereafter these employees receive increased company contributions in the company sponsored defined contribution plan in lieu of participation in a defined benefit plan (announced October 2019). GE Supplementary Pension Plan Provides supplementary benefits to higher-level, longer-service U.S. employees This plan is unfunded. We pay benefits from company cash. The annuity benefit has been closed to new participants since 2011 and has been replaced by an installment benefit (which was closed to new executives after 2020). Benefits for ~700 employees who became executives before 2011 were frozen effective January 1, 2021, and thereafter these employees accrue the installment benefit. Other Pension Plans(a) 41 U.S. and non-U.S. pension plans with pension assets or obligations that have reached $50 million Covers ~58,000 retirees and beneficiaries, ~48,500 vested former employees and ~14,000 active employees Our funding policy is to contribute amounts sufficient to meet minimum funding requirements under employee benefit and tax laws in each country. We may decide to contribute additional amounts beyond this level. We pay benefits for some plans from company cash. In certain countries, benefit accruals have ceased and/or have been closed to new hires as of various dates. Principal Retiree Benefit Plans Provides health and life insurance benefits to certain eligible participants Covers U.S. participants ~151,500 retirees and dependents and ~21,500 active employees We fund retiree health benefits on a pay-as-you-go basis and the retiree life insurance trust at our discretion. Participants share in the cost of the healthcare benefits. (a) Plans that reach $50 million are not removed from the presentation unless part of a disposition or plan termination. FUNDING STATUS BY PLAN TYPE Benefit Obligation
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GE Pension Plan (subject to regulatory funding) GE Supplementary Pension Plan (not subject to regulatory funding) Other Pension Plans: Subject to regulatory funding Not subject to regulatory funding Principal retiree benefit plans (not subject to regulatory funding) Total plans subject to regulatory funding Total plans not subject to regulatory funding Total plans FUNDING. The Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) determines minimum funding requirements in the U.S. No contributions were required or made for the GE Pension Plan during 2022 or 2021 and based on our current assumptions, we do not anticipate having to make additional required contributions to the plan in the near future. On an ERISA basis, our estimate is that the GE Pension Plan was 92.8% and 107.3% funded for 2022 and 2021, respectively. The GAAP funded status is 93.5% and 93.7% for 2022 and 2021, respectively. As of the measurement date of December 31, we would expect to pay approximately $370 million for benefit payments under our GE Supplementary Pension Plan and administrative expenses of our principal pension plans and would expect to contribute approximately $170 million to other pension plans in 2023. We fund retiree health benefits on a pay-as-you-go basis and the retiree life insurance trust at our discretion. As of the measurement date of December 31, we would expect to contribute approximately $365 million in 2023 to fund such benefits. ACTIONS. Pension benefits for approximately 2,700 United Kingdom (UK) participants have been frozen effective January 1, 2022. In addition, pension benefits for approximately 800 Canadian participants will be frozen effective December 31, 2023. These transactions were reflected as a curtailment loss in 2021 upon announcement. COST OF OUR BENEFITS PLANS AND ASSUMPTIONS
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Discount rate Expected rate of return on plan assets (a) For 2022, ultimately declining to 5% for 2030 and thereafter. As of the measurement date of December 31, we would expect 2023 net periodic benefit income for principal pension, other pension and principal retiree benefit plans to be about $2,010 million, which is an increase of approximately $1,985 million in income from 2022. The increase would primarily be due to the discount rate. The components of net periodic benefit costs, other than the service cost component, are included in Non-operating benefit cost (income) in our Statement of Earnings (Loss). PLAN FUNDED STATUS AND AMOUNTS RECORDED IN ACCUMULATED OTHER COMPREHENSIVE LOSS (INCOME)
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(a)Principally associated with discount rate changes. (b)The benefit obligation for the GE Supplementary Pension Plan, which is an unfunded plan, was $5,457 million and $7,226 million at December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. (c)The benefit obligation for retiree health plans was $1,991 million and $2,548 million at December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. ASSUMPTIONS USED IN CALCULATIONS. Our defined benefit pension plans are accounted for on an actuarial basis, which requires the selection of various assumptions, including a discount rate, a compensation assumption, an expected return on assets, mortality rates of participants and expectation of mortality improvement. Projected benefit obligations are measured as the present value of expected benefit payments. We discount those cash payments using a discount rate. We determine the discount rate using the weighted-average yields on high-quality fixed-income securities with maturities that correspond to the payment of benefits. Lower discount rates increase present values and generally increase subsequent-year pension expense; higher discount rates decrease present values and generally reduce subsequent-year pension expense. The compensation assumption is used to estimate the annual rate at which pay of plan participants will grow. If the rate of growth assumed increases, the size of the pension obligations will increase, as will the amount recorded in AOCI in our Statement of Financial Position and amortized into earnings in subsequent periods. The expected return on plan assets is the estimated long-term rate of return that will be earned on the investments used to fund the benefit obligations. To determine the expected long-term rate of return on pension plan assets, we consider our asset allocation, as well as historical and expected returns on various categories of plan assets. In developing future long-term return expectations for our principal benefit plans’ assets, we formulate views on the future economic environment, both in the U.S. and abroad. We evaluate general market trends and historical relationships among a number of key variables that impact asset class returns such as expected earnings growth, inflation, valuations, yields and spreads, using both internal and external sources. We also take into account expected volatility by asset class and diversification across classes to determine expected overall portfolio results given our asset allocation. Based on our analysis, we have assumed a 6.00% and 6.25% long-term expected return on the GE Pension Plan assets for cost recognition in 2022 and 2021, respectively. For 2023 cost recognition, based on GE Pension Plan assets at December 31, 2022, we have assumed a 7.00% long-term expected return. The Society of Actuaries issued new mortality improvement tables during 2021 that were used to update mortality assumptions in the U.S. These changes in assumptions increased the December 31, 2021 U.S. pension and retiree benefit plans' obligations by $278 million. The healthcare trend assumptions primarily apply to our pre-65 retiree medical plans. Most participants in our post-65 retiree plan have a fixed subsidy and therefore are not subject to healthcare inflation. We evaluate these critical assumptions at least annually on a plan and country-specific basis. We periodically evaluate other assumptions involving demographics factors such as retirement age and turnover, and update them to reflect our actual experience and expectations for the future. Actual results in any given year will often differ from actuarial assumptions because of economic and other factors. Differences between our actual results and what we assumed are recorded in AOCI each period. These differences are amortized into earnings over the remaining average future service of active participating employees or the expected life of inactive participants, as applicable. For the principal pension plans, gains and losses are amortized using a straight-line method with a separate layer for each year’s gains and losses. For most other pension plans and principal retiree benefit plans, gains and losses are amortized using a straight-line or a corridor amortization method. SENSITIVITIES TO KEY ASSUMPTIONS. Fluctuations in discount rates can significantly impact pension cost and obligations. As of the December 31 measurement date, we would expect a 25 basis point decrease in discount rate would increase principal pension plan cost in the following year by approximately $130 million and would also expect an increase in the principal pension plan projected benefit obligation at year-end by approximately $1,300 million. The deficit sensitivity to the discount rate would be lower than the projected benefit obligation sensitivity as a result of the liability hedging program incorporated in the plan's asset allocation. A 50 basis point decrease in the expected return on assets would increase principal pension plan cost in the following year by approximately $260 million. THE COMPOSITION OF OUR PLAN ASSETS. The fair value of our pension plans' investments is presented below. The inputs and valuation techniques used to measure the fair value of these assets are described in Note 1 and have been applied consistently. Debt securities Fixed income and cash investment funds U.S. corporate(a) Other debt securities(b) Private equities and other investments
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(a)Primarily represented investment-grade bonds of U.S. issuers from diverse industries. (b)Primarily represented investments in residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities, non-U.S. corporate and government bonds and U.S. government, federal agency, state and municipal debt. Plan assets that were measured at fair value using NAV as a practical expedient were excluded from the fair value hierarchy. GE Pension Plan investments with a fair value of $2,255 million and $3,872 million at December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively, were classified within Level 3 and primarily relate to private equities and real estate. The remaining investments were substantially all considered Level 1 and 2. Investments with a fair value of $6,759 million and $12,377 million at December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively, were classified within Level 1 and primarily relate to global equities and cash. Investments with a fair value of $18,606 million and $20,942 million at December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively, were classified within Level 2 and primarily relate to debt securities. Other pension plans investments with a fair value of $81 million and $138 million at December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively, were classified within Level 3 and primarily relate to private equities and real estate. The remaining investments were substantially all considered Level 1 and 2. Investments with a fair value of $841 million and $1,312 million at December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively, were classified within Level 1 and primarily relate to global equities and cash. Investments with a fair value of $7,580 million and $13,802 million at December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively, were classified within Level 2 and primarily relate to debt securities. Principal retiree benefit plan investments have a fair value of $10 million and $42 million at December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. There were no Level 3 principal retiree benefit plan investments held in 2022 and 2021. ASSET ALLOCATION OF PENSION PLANS 2022 Target allocation 2022 Actual allocation
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Debt securities (including cash equivalents) Private equities & other investments Plan fiduciaries of the GE Pension Plan set investment policies and strategies for the GE Pension Trust and oversee its investment allocation, which includes selecting investment managers and setting long-term strategic targets. The plan fiduciaries' primary strategic investment objectives are balancing investment risk and return and monitoring the plan’s liquidity position in order to meet the plan's near-term benefit payment and other cash needs. The plan has incorporated de-risking objectives and liability hedging programs as part of its long-term investment strategy. The plan utilizes a combination of long-dated corporate bonds, treasuries, strips and derivatives to implement its investment strategies as well as for hedging asset and liability risks. Target allocation percentages are established at an asset class level by plan fiduciaries. Target allocation ranges are guidelines, not limitations, and occasionally plan fiduciaries will approve allocations above or below a target range. GE securities represented 0.7% and 0.6% of the GE Pension Trust assets at December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. The GE Pension Trust has a broadly diversified portfolio of investments in equities, fixed income, private equities and real estate; these investments are both U.S. and non-U.S. in nature. ANNUALIZED RETURNS 1 year GE Pension Plan
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(a) As of the measurement date of December 31, 2022 DEFINED CONTRIBUTION PLAN. We have a defined contribution plan for eligible U.S. employees that provides employer contributions which were $444 million, $418 million and $318 million for the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021, and 2020, respectively. COST OF POSTRETIREMENT BENEFIT PLANS AND CHANGES IN OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (Pre-tax) Cost (income) of postretirement benefit plans
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NOTE 14. ALL OTHER LIABILITIES Sales discounts and allowances(a) Equipment projects and other commercial liabilities Product warranties (Note 24) Employee compensation and benefit liabilities Interest payable Taxes payable Environmental, health and safety liabilities (Note 24) Derivative instruments (Note 22)
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Equipment projects and other commercial liabilities Product warranties (Note 24) Operating lease liabilities (Note 6) Uncertain and other income taxes and related liabilities Alstom legacy legal matters (Note 24) Environmental, health and safety liabilities (Note 24) Redeemable noncontrolling interests (Note 16) Interest payable
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(a) Primarily comprise amounts payable to airlines based on future aircraft deliveries by airframers and discounts on spare parts and repair sales at our Aerospace segment. NOTE 15. INCOME TAXES. GE files a consolidated U.S. federal income tax return which enables GE's businesses to use tax deductions and credits of one member of the group to reduce the tax that otherwise would have been payable by another member of the group. The effective tax rate reflects the benefit of these tax reductions in the consolidated return. Cash payments are made to GE's businesses for tax reductions and from GE's businesses for tax increases. Our businesses are subject to regulation under a wide variety of U.S. federal, state and foreign tax laws, regulations and policies. Changes to these laws or regulations may affect our tax liability, return on investments and business operations. On August 16, 2022, the U.S. enacted the Inflation Reduction Act that includes a new alternative minimum tax based upon financial statement income (book minimum tax), an excise tax on stock buybacks and tax incentives for energy and climate initiatives, among other provisions. The new book minimum tax is expected to slow but not eliminate the favorable tax impact of our deferred tax assets, resulting in higher cash tax in some years that would generate future tax credits. The impact of the book minimum tax will depend on our facts in each year and anticipated guidance from the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Separately, we continue to assess tax incentives in the legislation which could change our pre-tax or tax amounts and impact our tax rate. EARNINGS (LOSS) FROM CONTINUING OPERATIONS BEFORE INCOME TAXES U.S. earnings (loss) Non-U.S. earnings (loss) PROVISION (BENEFIT) FOR INCOME TAXES Current U.S. Federal U.S. State Deferred U.S. Federal U.S. State Income taxes paid were $1,128 million, $1,330 million and $1,291 million for the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, respectively, including payments reported in discontinued operations. RECONCILIATION OF U.S. FEDERAL STATUTORY INCOME TAX RATE TO ACTUAL INCOME TAX RATE U.S. federal statutory income tax rate Tax on global activities including exports U.S. business credits(a) Debt tender and related valuation allowances Deductible stock and restructuring losses Sale of Biopharma business Goodwill impairments All other – net(b)(c)(d)
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(a)U.S. general business credits, primarily the credit for energy produced from renewable sources and the credit for research performed in the U.S. (b)For the year ended December 31, 2022, included $134 million for separation income tax costs of which $66 million was due to the repatriation of previously reinvested earnings. (c)For the year ended December 31, 2020, included $(140) million for the resolution of the IRS audit of our consolidated U.S. income tax returns for 2014-2015. (d)Included for each period, the expense or benefit for U.S. state taxes reported above in the consolidated (benefit) provision for income taxes, net of 21.0% federal effect. UNRECOGNIZED TAX POSITIONS. Annually, we file over 2,600 income tax returns in over 270 global taxing jurisdictions. We are under examination or engaged in tax litigation in many of these jurisdictions. The IRS is currently auditing our consolidated U.S. income tax returns for 2016-2018. In December 2020, the IRS completed the audit of our consolidated U.S. income tax returns for 2014-2015. The Company recognized a continuing operations benefit of $140 million plus an additional net interest benefit of $96 million. In addition, the Company recorded a benefit in discontinued operations of $130 million of tax benefits and $25 million of net interest benefits. See Note 2 for further information. In September 2021, GE resolved its dispute with the United Kingdom tax authority, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) in connection with interest deductions claimed by GE Capital for the years 2004-2015. As previously disclosed, HMRC had proposed to disallow interest deductions with a potential impact of approximately $1,100 million, which included a possible assessment of tax and reduction of deferred tax assets, not including interest and penalties. As part of the settlement, GE and HMRC agreed that a portion of the interest deductions claimed were disallowed, with no fault or blame attributed to either party. The resolution concluded the dispute in its entirety without interest or penalties. The adjustments result in no current tax payment to HMRC, but a deferred tax charge of $112 million as part of discontinued operations as a result of a reduction of available tax attributes, which had previously been recorded as deferred tax assets. The balance of unrecognized tax benefits, the amount of related interest and penalties we have provided and what we believe to be the range of reasonably possible changes in the next 12 months (excluding the expected decrease to the GE balance of $552 million due to the spin-off of GE HealthCare) were:
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Unrecognized tax benefits Portion that, if recognized, would reduce tax expense and effective tax rate(a) Accrued interest on unrecognized tax benefits Accrued penalties on unrecognized tax benefits Reasonably possible reduction to the balance of unrecognized tax benefits in succeeding 12 months Portion that, if recognized, would reduce tax expense and effective tax rate(a) (a) Some portion of such reduction may be reported as discontinued operations. UNRECOGNIZED TAX BENEFITS RECONCILIATION Additions for tax positions of the current year Additions for tax positions of prior years Reductions for tax positions of prior years Settlements with tax authorities Expiration of the statute of limitations We classify interest on tax deficiencies as interest expense; we classify income tax penalties as provision for income taxes. For the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, $36 million, $17 million and $(30) million of interest expense (income), respectively, and $(26) million, $(29) million and $(13) million of tax expense (income) related to penalties, respectively, were recognized in our Statement of Earnings (Loss). DEFERRED INCOME TAXES. As part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (U.S. tax reform), the U.S. has enacted a minimum tax on foreign earnings (global intangible low tax income). We have not made an accrual for the deferred tax aspects of this provision. We also have not provided deferred taxes on cumulative net earnings of non-U.S. affiliates and associated companies of approximately $14 billion that have been reinvested indefinitely. Given U.S. tax reform, substantially all of our prior unrepatriated net earnings were subject to U.S. tax and accordingly we expect to have the ability to repatriate available non-U.S. cash without additional federal tax cost, and any foreign withholding tax on a repatriation to the U.S. would potentially be partially offset by a U.S. foreign tax credit. Most of these earnings have been reinvested in active non-U.S. business operations and it is not practicable to determine the income tax liability that would be payable if such earnings were not reinvested indefinitely. We reassess reinvestment of earnings on an ongoing basis. In 2022, in connection with the execution of the Company’s plans to prepare for the spin-off of GE HealthCare, we incurred $66 million of tax due to repatriation of previously reinvested earnings. The total deferred tax asset as of December 31, 2022 includes $714 million related to the required capitalization of research costs for U.S. tax purposes effective January 1, 2022. The Company has pending accounting method changes which, if approved, are expected to offset the impact of this required capitalization. This deferred tax asset includes $279 million related to GE HealthCare, which became a deferred asset of the separate company upon spin-off in the first quarter of 2023. In the event capitalization of research costs is adjusted through retroactive legislation effective for 2022, GE will record a tax provision benefit related to GE HealthCare research costs as a result of the benefit in the consolidated GE 2022 tax return without payment under the Tax Matters Agreement. The following table presents our net deferred tax assets and net deferred tax liabilities attributable to different tax jurisdictions or different tax paying components.
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(a)Net of valuation allowances of $7,171 million and $7,081 million as of December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. Of the net deferred tax asset as of December 31, 2022 of $1,240 million, $8 million relates to net operating loss carryforwards that expire in various years ending from December 31, 2023 through December 31, 2025; $427 million relates to net operating losses that expire in various years ending from December 31, 2026 through December 31, 2042; and $805 million relates to net operating loss carryforwards that may be carried forward indefinitely. (b) Included valuation allowances related to assets other than non-U.S. loss carryforwards of $3,325 million and $1,653 million as of December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. These primarily relate to excess capital loss carryforwards. NOTE 16. SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY ACCUMULATED OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS) AOCI before reclasses – net of taxes of $127, $(91) and $(25) Reclasses from AOCI – net of taxes of $—, $87 and $—(a) Less AOCI attributable to noncontrolling interests
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AOCI before reclasses – net of taxes of $597, $1,643 and $(283) Reclasses from AOCI – net of taxes of $216, $793 and $805(a) Less AOCI attributable to noncontrolling interests Benefit plans AOCI AOCI before reclasses – net of taxes of $(1,141), $615 and $21(b) Reclasses from AOCI – net of taxes of $(20), $23 and $(25)(a)
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(a)The total reclassification from AOCI included $836 million, including currency translation of $688 million, net of taxes, in 2020, related to the sale of our BioPharma business within our HealthCare segment. (b)Included adjustments of $2,674 million, $3,535 million and $(1,979) million for the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, respectively, related to insurance liabilities and annuity benefits in our run-off insurance operations to reflect the effects that would have been recognized had the related unrealized investment security gains been realized. See Note 12 for further information. Preferred stock. GE has 50 million authorized shares of preferred stock ($1.00 par value), of which 5,795,444 shares are outstanding as of December 31, 2022 and 5,939,875 shares are outstanding as of both December 31, 2021 and 2020. Preferred stock outstanding comprises $5,550 million of GE Series D preferred stock, in addition to $245 million of existing GE Series A, B and C preferred stock. The total carrying value of GE preferred stock at December 31, 2022 was $5,795 million. Dividends on GE preferred stock are payable semi-annually in June and December and accretion is recorded on a quarterly basis. Dividends on GE preferred stock totaled $289 million, including cash dividends of $284 million, $237 million, including cash dividends of $220 million, and $474 million, including cash dividends of $295 million, for the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, respectively. On January 21, 2021, the GE Series D preferred stock became callable and its dividends converted from 5% fixed rate to 3-month LIBOR plus 3.33%. As of the filing date of this Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022, the GE Series D preferred stock has not been called. From time to time we repurchase outstanding shares of preferred stock, and we repurchased $144 million of GE Series D preferred stock in the year ended December 31, 2022. Common stock. GE's authorized common stock consists of 1,650 million shares having a par value of $0.01 each, with 1,462 million shares issued. Common stock shares outstanding were 1,089,107,878 and 1,099,027,213 at December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. We repurchased 13.6 million and 0.5 million shares, for a total of $1,000 million and $36 million for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. Redeemable noncontrolling interests. Our redeemable noncontrolling interests, presented within All other liabilities in our Statement of Financial Position, include common shares issued by our affiliates that are redeemable at the option of the holder of those interests and amounted to $132 million and $148 million, primarily related to our HealthCare segment, as of December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. NOTE 17. SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION. We grant stock options, restricted stock units and performance share units to employees under the 2007 and 2022 Long-Term Incentive Plans. Grants made under all plans must be approved by the Management Development and Compensation Committee of GE’s Board of Directors, which is composed entirely of independent directors. We record compensation expense for awards expected to vest over the vesting period. We estimate forfeitures based on experience and adjust expense to reflect actual forfeitures. When options are exercised, restricted stock units vest, and performance share awards are earned, we issue shares from treasury stock. Stock options provide employees the opportunity to purchase GE shares in the future at the market price of our stock on the date the award is granted (the strike price). The options become exercisable over the vesting period, typically three years, and expire 10 years from the grant date if not exercised. Restricted stock units (RSU) provide an employee with the right to receive one share of GE stock when the restrictions lapse over the vesting period. Upon vesting, each RSU is converted into one share of GE common stock for each unit. Performance share units (PSU) and performance shares provide an employee with the right to receive shares of GE stock based upon achievement of certain performance or market metrics. Upon vesting, each PSU earned is converted into shares of GE common stock. We value stock options using a Black-Scholes option pricing model, RSUs using market price on grant date, and PSUs and performance shares using market price on grant date and a Monte Carlo simulation as needed based on performance metrics. WEIGHTED AVERAGE GRANT DATE FAIR VALUE Stock options RSUs PSUs/Performance shares Key assumptions used in the Black-Scholes valuation for stock options include: risk free rates of 1.6%, 1.1%, and 1.0%, dividend yields of 0.4%, 0.3%, and 0.4%, expected volatility of 37%, 40%, and 36%, expected lives of 6.8 years, 6.2 years, and 6.1 years, and strike prices of $92.33, $105.12, and $84.48 for 2022, 2021, and 2020, respectively. STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION ACTIVITY Stock options RSUs Shares (in thousands)
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Total outstanding target PSUs and performance shares at December 31, 2022 were 3,667 thousand shares with a weighted average fair value of $78.31. The intrinsic value and weighted average contractual term of target PSUs and performance shares outstanding were $307 million and 1.7 years, respectively. Compensation expense (after-tax)(a)(b) Cash received from stock options exercised Intrinsic value of stock options exercised and RSU/PSUs vested (a)Unrecognized compensation cost related to unvested equity awards as of December 31, 2022 was $420 million, which will be amortized over a weighted average period of 1.0 year. (b)Income tax benefit recognized in earnings was $17 million, $9 million and $10 million in 2022, 2021, and 2020, respectively. NOTE 18. EARNINGS PER SHARE INFORMATION (Earnings for per-share calculation, shares in millions, per-share amounts in dollars) Accretion of redeemable noncontrolling interests, net of tax Accretion of preferred share repurchase Earnings (loss) from continuing operations attributable to common shareholders Shares of GE common stock outstanding Employee compensation-related shares (including stock options)
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Net earnings (loss) per share Potentially dilutive securities(a) (a) Outstanding stock awards not included in the computation of diluted earnings (loss) per share because their effect was antidilutive. Our unvested restricted stock unit awards that contain non-forfeitable rights to dividends or dividend equivalents are considered participating securities and, therefore, are included in the computation of earnings per share pursuant to the two-class method. For the year ended December 31, 2022, application of this treatment had an insignificant effect. For the year ended December 31, 2021, as a result of the loss from continuing operations, losses were not allocated to the participating securities. For the year ended December 31, 2020, application of this treatment had an insignificant effect. NOTE 19. OTHER INCOME (LOSS) Purchases and sales of business interests(a) Licensing and royalty income Equity method income Investment in Baker Hughes realized and unrealized gain (loss) Investment in and note with AerCap unrealized gain (loss) Other net interest and investment income (loss)(b) Other items
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(a) Included a pre-tax loss of $170 million related to the sale of our boiler manufacturing business in China in our Power segment in 2021. Included a pre-tax gain of $12,362 million on the sale of our BioPharma business in 2020. See Note 2 for further information. (b) Included interest income associated with customer advances of $162 million, $167 million and $146 million in 2022, 2021 and 2020, respectively. See Note 8 for further information. NOTE 20. RESTRUCTURING CHARGES AND SEPARATION COSTS RESTRUCTURING AND OTHER CHARGES. This table is inclusive of all restructuring charges in our segments and at Corporate, and the charges are shown below for the business where they originated. Separately, in our reported segment results, significant, higher-cost restructuring programs are excluded from measurement of segment operating performance for internal and external purposes; those excluded amounts are reported in Restructuring and other charges for Corporate. RESTRUCTURING AND OTHER CHARGES Workforce reductions Plant closures & associated costs and other asset write-downs Acquisition/disposition net charges and other Cost of equipment/services Selling, general and administrative expenses Other (income) loss
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An analysis of changes in the liability for restructuring follows. Additions Payments Remeasurement Effect of foreign currency and other
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(a) Includes actuarial determined post-employment severance benefits reserve of $475 million, $464 million and $722 million as of December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, respectively. For the year ended December 31, 2022, restructuring and other initiatives primarily included exit activities related to the restructuring program announced in the fourth quarter reflecting lower Corporate shared-service and footprint needs as GE HealthCare prepared to become independent. It also includes exit activities associated with the plan announced in October 2022 to undertake a restructuring program across our businesses planned to be part of GE Vernova, primarily reflecting the selectivity strategy to operate in fewer markets and to simplify and standardize product variants at Renewable Energy. We recorded total charges of $993 million, consisting of $416 million primarily in non-cash impairment, accelerated depreciation and other charges, not reflected in the table above, and $578 million primarily in employee workforce reduction and contract related charges, which are reflected in the table above. We incurred $492 million in cash outflows related to restructuring actions, primarily for employee severance payments. For the year ended December 31, 2021, restructuring and other initiatives primarily included exit activities at our Power business related to our new coal build wind-down actions, which included the exit of certain product lines, closing certain manufacturing and office facilities and other workforce reduction programs. We recorded total charges of $819 million, consisting of $164 million primarily in non-cash impairment, accelerated depreciation and other charges, not reflected in the table above, and $655 million primarily in employee workforce reduction charges, which are reflected in the table above. We incurred $781 million in cash outflows related to restructuring actions, primarily for employee severance payments. For the year ended December 31, 2020, restructuring and other initiatives primarily included actions related to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on our Aerospace business and Corporate cost reduction programs, which included closing certain manufacturing and office facilities and other workforce reduction programs. We recorded total charges of $1,254 million, consisting of $394 million in non-cash asset impairments and other charges, not reflected in the table above, and $860 million primarily in workforce reduction charges, which are reflected in the table above. We incurred $1,175 million in cash outflows related to restructuring actions, primarily for employee severance payments. SEPARATION COSTS. In November 2021, the company announced its plan to form three industry-leading, global public companies focused on the growth sectors of aviation, healthcare, and energy. As a result of this plan, we expect to incur separation, transition, and operational costs, which will depend on specifics of the transactions. We incurred pre-tax separation costs of $973 million, primarily related to employee costs, costs to establish certain stand-alone functions and information technology systems, professional fees, and other transformation and transaction costs to transition to three stand-alone public companies, for the year ended December 31, 2022. These costs are presented as separation costs in our consolidated Statement of Earnings (Loss). In addition, we incurred $71 million of net tax benefit, including taxes associated with planned legal entity restructuring and changes to indefinite reinvestment of foreign earnings, for the year ended December 31, 2022. We spent $261 million in cash for the year ended December 31, 2022. NOTE 21. FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENTS Our assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis include debt securities mainly supporting obligations to annuitants and policyholders in our run-off insurance operations, our equity interests in AerCap and Baker Hughes, and derivatives. ASSETS AND LIABILITIES MEASURED AT FAIR VALUE ON A RECURRING BASIS Level 3(a) Netting adjustment(d) Net balance(b) Derivatives Derivatives Other(c) (a)Included $3,548 million of U.S. corporate debt securities, $1,386 million of Mortgage and asset-backed debt securities, and the $900 million AerCap note at December 31, 2022. Included $4,228 million of U.S. corporate debt securities, $1,427 million of Mortgage and asset-backed debt securities, and the $993 million AerCap note at December 31, 2021. (b)See Notes 3 and 22 for further information on the composition of our investment securities and derivative portfolios. (c)Primarily represents the liabilities associated with certain of our deferred incentive compensation plans. (d)The netting of derivative receivables and payables is permitted when a legally enforceable master netting agreement exists. Amounts include fair value adjustments related to our own and counterparty non-performance risk. LEVEL 3 INSTRUMENTS. The majority of our Level 3 balances comprised debt securities classified as available-for-sale with changes in fair value recorded in Other comprehensive income. Balance at January 1 Net realized/unrealized gains(losses)(a) Purchases(b) Sales & Settlements Transfers into Transfers out of Balance at (a)Primarily included net unrealized gains (losses) of $(994) million and $(288) million in Other comprehensive income for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. (b)Included $508 million of U.S. corporate debt securities and $302 million of Mortgage and asset-backed debt securities for the year ended December 31, 2022. Included $1,084 million of Mortgage and asset-backed debt securities and $1,000 million AerCap senior note received as partial consideration on the completion of the GECAS transaction for the year ended December 31, 2021. The majority of these Level 3 securities are fair valued using non-binding broker quotes or other third-party sources that utilize a number of different unobservable inputs not subject to meaningful aggregation. NOTE 22. FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS. The following table provides information about assets and liabilities not carried at fair value and excludes finance leases, equity securities without readily determinable fair value and non-financial assets and liabilities. Substantially all of these assets are considered to be Level 3 and the vast majority of our liabilities’ fair value are considered Level 2. Carrying (net) Carrying (net) Assets Loans and other receivables Liabilities Borrowings (Note 10) Investment contracts (Note 12) Assets and liabilities that are reflected in the accompanying financial statements at fair value are not included in the above disclosures; such items include cash and equivalents, investment securities and derivative financial instruments. DERIVATIVES AND HEDGING. Our policy requires that derivatives are used solely for managing risks and not for speculative purposes. We use derivatives to manage currency risks related to foreign exchange, and interest rate and currency risk between financial assets and liabilities, and certain equity investments and commodity prices. We use cash flow hedges primarily to reduce or eliminate the effects of foreign exchange rate changes, net investment hedges to hedge investments in foreign operations as well as fair value hedges to hedge the effects of interest rate and currency changes on debt it has issued. We also use derivatives not designated as hedges from an accounting standpoint (and therefore we do not apply hedge accounting to the relationship) but otherwise serve the same economic purpose as other hedging arrangements. We use economic hedges when we have exposures to currency exchange risk for which we are unable to meet the requirements for hedge accounting or when changes in the carrying amount of the hedged item are already recorded in earnings in the same period as the derivative making hedge accounting unnecessary. Even though the derivative is an effective economic hedge, there may be a net effect on earnings in each period due to differences in the timing of earnings recognition between the derivative and the hedged item. FAIR VALUE OF DERIVATIVES Gross Notional All other liabilities Gross Notional All other liabilities Interest rate contracts
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Net accrued interest Securities held as collateral Net amount FAIR VALUE HEDGES. As of December 31, 2022, all fair value hedges were terminated due to exposure management actions, including debt maturities. Gains (losses) associated with the terminated hedging relationships will continue to amortize into interest expense until the bonds mature. The cumulative amount of hedging adjustments of $1,240 million (all on discontinued hedging relationships) was included in the carrying amount of the previously hedged liability of $9,933 million. At December 31, 2021, the cumulative amount of hedging adjustments of $2,072 million (including $2,073 million on discontinued hedging relationships) was included in the carrying amount of the previously hedged liability of $16,819 million. The cumulative amount of hedging adjustments was primarily recorded in long-term borrowings.
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Cash flow hedges(a) Net investment hedges(b) (a) Primarily related to currency exchange contracts. (b) The carrying value of foreign currency debt designated as net investment hedges was $3,329 million and $4,061 million at December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. The total reclassified from AOCI into earnings was zero, $(87) million and zero for the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, respectively. Changes in the fair value of cash flow hedges are recorded in AOCI and recorded in earnings in the period in which the hedged transaction occurs. The total amount in AOCI related to cash flow hedges of forecasted transactions was a $111 million loss at December 31, 2022. We expect to reclassify $106 million of loss to earnings in the next 12 months contemporaneously with the earnings effects of the related forecasted transactions. At December 31, 2022, the maximum term of derivative instruments that hedge forecasted transactions was approximately 12 years. The table below presents the gains (losses) of our derivative financial instruments in the Statement of Earnings (Loss): Interest Expense SG&A Other(a) Interest Expense SG&A Other(a)
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(a) Amounts are inclusive of cost of sales and other income (loss). (b) SG&A was primarily driven by hedges of deferred incentive compensation, Other Income (loss) by hedges of Baker Hughes equity sale, and Debt Extinguishment Costs by hedges of debt tenders. These hedging programs were to offset the earnings impact of the underlying. COUNTERPARTY CREDIT RISK. Our exposures to counterparties (including accrued interest), net of collateral we held, was $308 million and $564 million at December 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021, respectively. Counterparties' exposures to our derivative liability (including accrued interest), net of collateral posted by us, was $505 million and $159 million at December 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021, respectively. NOTE 23. VARIABLE INTEREST ENTITIES. In our Statement of Financial Position, we have assets of $401 million and $491 million and liabilities of $206 million and $206 million at December 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021, respectively, in consolidated Variable Interest Entities (VIEs). These entities were created to help our customers facilitate or finance the purchase of GE equipment and services and have no features that could expose us to losses that would significantly exceed the difference between the consolidated assets and liabilities. Our investments in unconsolidated VIEs were $5,917 million and $5,034 million at December 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021, respectively. Of these investments, $1,481 million and $1,481 million were owned by EFS, comprising equity method investments, primarily renewable energy tax equity investments, at December 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021, respectively. In addition, $4,219 million and $3,333 million were owned by our run-off insurance operations, primarily comprising of equity method investments at December 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021, respectively. The increase in investments in unconsolidated VIEs in our run-off insurance operations reflects strategic initiatives to invest in higher-yielding asset classes. Our maximum exposure to loss in respect of unconsolidated VIEs is increased by our commitments to make additional investments in these entities described in Note 24. NOTE 24. COMMITMENTS, GUARANTEES, PRODUCT WARRANTIES AND OTHER LOSS CONTINGENCIES COMMITMENTS. We had total investment commitments of $3,877 million at December 31, 2022. The commitments primarily comprise investments by our run-off insurance operations in investment securities and other assets of $3,778 million and included within these commitments are obligations to make investments in unconsolidated VIEs of $3,773 million. See Note 23 for further information. As of December 31, 2022, in our Aerospace segment, we have committed to provide financing assistance of $2,390 million of future customer acquisitions of aircraft equipped with our engines. GUARANTEES. At December 31, 2022, we were committed under the following guarantee arrangements: Credit support. We have provided $1,143 million of credit support on behalf of certain customers or associated companies, predominantly joint ventures and partnerships, using arrangements such as standby letters of credit and performance guarantees. The liability for such credit support was $32 million.
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We have $534 million of indemnification commitments, including representations and warranties in sales of business assets, for which we recorded a liability of $80 million.
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We have provided specific indemnities to buyers of assets of our business that, in the aggregate, represent a maximum potential claim of $717 million with related reserves of $77 million. PRODUCT WARRANTIES. We provide for estimated product warranty expenses when we sell the related products. Because warranty estimates are forecasts that are based on the best available information, mostly historical claims experience, claims costs may differ from amounts provided. An analysis of changes in the liability for product warranties follows. Current-year provisions(a) Expenditures Other changes (a) The increase in current-year provisions is primarily related to Renewable Energy, which was substantially all due to changes in estimates on pre-existing warranties and related to the deployment of repairs and other corrective measures. LEGAL MATTERS. In the normal course of our business, we are involved from time to time in various arbitrations, class actions, commercial litigation, investigations and other legal, regulatory or governmental actions, including the significant matters described below that could have a material impact on our results of operations. In many proceedings, including the specific matters described below, it is inherently difficult to determine whether any loss is probable or even reasonably possible or to estimate the size or range of the possible loss, and accruals for legal matters are not recorded until a loss for a particular matter is considered probable and reasonably estimable. Given the nature of legal matters and the complexities involved, it is often difficult to predict and determine a meaningful estimate of loss or range of loss until we know, among other factors, the particular claims involved, the likelihood of success of our defenses to those claims, the damages or other relief sought, how discovery or other procedural considerations will affect the outcome, the settlement posture of other parties and other factors that may have a material effect on the outcome. For these matters, unless otherwise specified, we do not believe it is possible to provide a meaningful estimate of loss at this time. Moreover, it is not uncommon for legal matters to be resolved over many years, during which time relevant developments and new information must be continuously evaluated.
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In 2015, we acquired the Steam Power, Renewables and Grid businesses from Alstom, which prior to our acquisition were the subject of significant cases involving anti-competitive activities and improper payments. We had reserves of $455 million and $567 million at December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively, for legal and compliance matters related to the legacy business practices that were the subject of cases in various jurisdictions. Allegations in these cases relate to claimed anti-competitive conduct or improper payments in the pre-acquisition period as the source of legal violations or damages. Given the significant litigation and compliance activity related to these matters and our ongoing efforts to resolve them, it is difficult to assess whether the disbursements will ultimately be consistent with the reserve established. The estimation of this reserve may not reflect the full range of uncertainties and unpredictable outcomes inherent in litigation and investigations of this nature, and at this time we are unable to develop a meaningful estimate of the range of reasonably possible additional losses beyond the amount of this reserve. Factors that can affect the ultimate amount of losses associated with these and related matters include the way cooperation is assessed and valued, prosecutorial discretion in the determination of damages, formulas for determining disgorgement, fines or penalties, the duration and amount of legal and investigative resources applied, political and social influences within each jurisdiction, and tax consequences of any settlements or previous deductions, among other considerations. Actual losses arising from claims in these and related matters could exceed the amount provided.
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Since November 2017, several putative shareholder class actions under the federal securities laws have been filed against GE and certain affiliated individuals and consolidated into a single action currently pending in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (the Hachem case). In October 2019, the lead plaintiff filed a fifth amended consolidated class action complaint naming as defendants GE and current and former GE executive officers. It alleges violations of Sections 10(b) and 20(a) and Rule 10b-5 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 related to insurance reserves and accounting for long-term service agreements and seeks damages on behalf of shareholders who acquired GE stock between February 27, 2013 and January 23, 2018. GE filed a motion to dismiss in December 2019. In January 2021, the court granted defendants’ motion to dismiss as to the majority of the claims. Specifically, the court dismissed all claims related to insurance reserves, as well as all claims related to accounting for long-term service agreements, with the exception of certain claims about historic disclosures related to factoring in the Power business that survive as to GE and its former CFO Jeffrey S. Bornstein. All other individual defendants have been dismissed from the case. In April 2022, the court granted the plaintiffs' motion for class certification for shareholders who acquired stock between February 26, 2016 and January 23, 2018, and granted the plaintiffs’ request to amend their complaint. In September 2022, GE filed a motion for summary judgment on the plaintiffs' remaining claims. Since February 2018, multiple shareholder derivative lawsuits have been filed against current and former GE executive officers and members of GE’s Board of Directors and GE (as nominal defendant). These lawsuits have alleged violations of securities laws, breaches of fiduciary duties, unjust enrichment, waste of corporate assets, abuse of control and gross mismanagement, although the specific matters underlying the allegations in the lawsuits have varied. Two shareholder derivative lawsuits are currently pending: the Lindsey and Priest/Tola cases, which were filed in New York state court. The allegations in these two cases relate to substantially the same facts as those underlying the Hachem case. The plaintiffs seek unspecified damages and improvements in GE’s corporate governance and internal procedures. The Lindsey case has been stayed by agreement of the parties, and GE filed a motion to dismiss the Priest/Tola complaint in March 2021. In July 2018, a putative class action (the Mahar case) was filed in New York state court naming as defendants GE, former GE executive officers, a former member of GE’s Board of Directors and KPMG. It alleged violations of Sections 11, 12 and 15 of the Securities Act of 1933 based on alleged misstatements related to insurance reserves and performance of GE’s business segments in GE Stock Direct Plan registration statements and documents incorporated therein by reference and seeks damages on behalf of shareholders who acquired GE stock between July 20, 2015 and July 19, 2018 through the GE Stock Direct Plan. In February 2019, this case was dismissed. In March 2019, plaintiffs filed an amended derivative complaint naming the same defendants. In April 2019, GE filed a motion to dismiss the amended complaint. In October 2019, the court denied GE's motion to dismiss and stayed the case pending the outcome of the Hachem case. In November 2019, the plaintiffs moved to re-argue to challenge the stay, and GE cross-moved to re-argue the denial of the motion to dismiss and filed a notice of appeal. The court denied both motions for re-argument, and in November 2020, the Appellate Division First Department affirmed the court's denial of GE's motion to dismiss. In January 2021, GE filed a motion for leave to appeal to the New York Court of Appeals, and that motion was denied in March 2021. In February 2019, a securities action (the Touchstone case) was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York naming as defendants GE and current and former GE executive officers. It alleges violations of Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Section 1707.43 of the Ohio Securities Act and common law fraud based on alleged misstatements regarding insurance reserves, GE Power’s revenue recognition practices related to long term service agreements, GE’s acquisition of Alstom, and the goodwill recognized in connection with that transaction. The lawsuit seeks damages on behalf of six institutional investors who purchased GE common stock between August 1, 2014 and October 30, 2018 and rescission of those purchases. In May 2021, the plaintiffs filed an amended complaint, and GE in June 2021 filed a motion to dismiss that complaint. In September 2022, the court granted GE’s motion to the dismiss the plaintiffs’ case with no opportunity to replead their case. In January 2023, the plaintiffs filed an appeal of the court’s dismissal of their case with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. As previously reported by Baker Hughes, in March 2019, two derivative lawsuits were filed in the Delaware Court of Chancery naming as defendants GE, directors of Baker Hughes (including former members of GE’s Board of Directors and current and former GE executive officers) and Baker Hughes (as nominal defendant), and the court issued an order consolidating these two actions (the Schippnick case). The complaint as amended in May 2019 alleges, among other things, that GE and the Baker Hughes directors breached their fiduciary duties, and that GE was unjustly enriched by entering into transactions and agreements related to GE's sales of approximately 12% of its ownership interest in Baker Hughes in November 2018. The complaint seeks declaratory relief, disgorgement of profits, an award of damages, pre- and post-judgment interest and attorneys’ fees and costs. In May 2019, the plaintiffs voluntarily dismissed their claims against the directors who were members of the Baker Hughes Conflicts Committee and a former Baker Hughes director. In October 2019, the Court denied the remaining defendants’ motions to dismiss, except with respect to the unjust enrichment claim against GE, which has been dismissed. In November 2019, the defendants filed their answer to the complaint, and a special litigation committee of the Baker Hughes Board of Directors moved for an order staying all proceedings in this action pending completion of the committee's investigation of the allegations and claims asserted in the complaint. In October 2020, the special litigation committee filed a report with the Court recommending that the derivative action be terminated. In January 2021, the special committee filed a motion to terminate the action.
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Four putative class action lawsuits have been filed regarding the oversight of the GE RSP, and those class actions have been consolidated into a single action in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. The consolidated complaint names as defendants GE, GE Asset Management, current and former GE and GE Asset Management executive officers and employees who served on fiduciary bodies responsible for aspects of the GE RSP during the class period. Like similar lawsuits that have been brought against other companies in recent years, this action alleges that the defendants breached their fiduciary duties under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) in their oversight of the GE RSP, principally by retaining five proprietary funds that plaintiffs allege were underperforming as investment options for plan participants and by charging higher management fees than some alternative funds. The plaintiffs seek unspecified damages on behalf of a class of GE RSP participants and beneficiaries from September 26, 2011 through the date of any judgment. In August and December 2018, the court issued orders dismissing one count of the complaint and denying GE's motion to dismiss the remaining counts. In September 2022, both GE and the plaintiffs filed motions for summary judgment on the remaining claims. Bank BPH. As previously reported, Bank BPH, along with other Polish banks, has been subject to ongoing litigation in Poland related to its portfolio of floating rate residential mortgage loans, with cases brought by individual borrowers seeking relief related to their foreign currency indexed or denominated mortgage loans in various courts throughout Poland. At December 31, 2022, approximately 85% of the Bank BPH portfolio is indexed to or denominated in foreign currencies (primarily Swiss francs), and the total portfolio had a carrying value, net of reserves, of $1,199 million. We continue to observe an increase in the number of lawsuits being brought against Bank BPH and other banks in Poland, and we expect this to continue in future reporting periods. We estimate potential losses for Bank BPH in connection with borrower litigation cases that are pending by recording legal reserves, as well as in connection with potential future cases or other adverse developments as part of our ongoing valuation of the Bank BPH portfolio, which we record at the lower of cost or fair value, less cost to sell. The total amount of estimated losses was $1,359 million and $755 million at December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. We update our assumptions underlying the amount of estimated losses based primarily on the number of lawsuits filed and estimated to be filed in the future, whether liability will be established in lawsuits and the nature of the remedy ordered by courts if liability is established. The increase in the amount of estimated losses during 2022 was driven primarily by increases in the number of lawsuits filed and estimated to be filed in the future and increased findings of liability. We expect the trends we have previously reported of an increasing number of lawsuits being filed, more findings of liability and more severe remedies being ordered against Polish banks (including Bank BPH) to continue in future reporting periods, although Bank BPH is unable at this time to develop a meaningful estimate of reasonably possible losses associated with active and inactive Bank BPH mortgage loans beyond the amounts currently recorded. Additional factors may also affect our estimated losses over time, including: potentially significant judicial decisions or binding resolutions by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) or the Polish Supreme Court; the impact of any of these or other future or recent decisions or resolutions (including an expected ECJ ruling that could adversely impact the remedy cost to Polish banks upon a finding of liability, and the Polish Supreme Court binding resolution delivered verbally in May 2021 with written reasoning issued in July 2021) on how Polish courts will interpret and apply the law in particular cases and how borrower behavior may change in response, neither of which are known immediately upon the issuance of a decision or resolution; financial, economic and other conditions in Poland that may adversely affect borrowers; uncertainty related to a proposal by the Chairman of the Polish Financial Supervisory Authority in December 2020 that banks voluntarily offer borrowers an opportunity to convert their foreign currency indexed or denominated mortgage loans to Polish zlotys using an exchange rate applicable at the date of loan origination, and about the various settlement strategies or other approaches that Polish banks have increasingly adopted or will adopt, or that Bank BPH may adopt in the future, in response to this proposal or other factors, the approaches that regulators and other government authorities will adopt in response, the receptivity of borrowers to settlement offers; and the financial and capital impact on banks that adopt settlement programs; and any potential legislation that may be passed in Poland relating to foreign exchange indexed or denominated mortgage loans. In addition, there is continued uncertainty arising from investigations of the Polish Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKiK), including existing or anticipated UOKiK and court decisions resulting from those investigations, particularly UOKiK's investigation into the adequacy of disclosure of foreign exchange risk by banks (including BPH) and the legality under Polish law of unlimited foreign exchange risk on customers. Future adverse developments related to any of the foregoing, or other adverse developments such as actions by regulators, legislators or other governmental authorities (including UOKiK), likely would have a material adverse effect on Bank BPH and the carrying value of its mortgage loan portfolio as well as result in additional required capital contributions to Bank BPH or significant losses beyond the amounts that we currently estimate. ENVIRONMENTAL, HEALTH AND SAFETY MATTERS. Our operations, like operations of other companies engaged in similar businesses, involve the use, disposal and cleanup of substances regulated under environmental protection laws and nuclear decommissioning regulations. We have obligations for ongoing and future environmental remediation activities, such as the Housatonic River cleanup described below, and may incur additional liabilities in connection with previously remediated sites, such as natural resource damages for the Hudson River where GE completed dredging in 2019. Additionally, like many other industrial companies, we and our subsidiaries are defendants in various lawsuits related to alleged worker exposure to asbestos or other hazardous materials. Liabilities for environmental remediation, nuclear decommissioning and worker exposure claims exclude possible insurance recoveries. It is reasonably possible that our exposure will exceed amounts accrued. However, due to uncertainties about the status of laws, regulations, technology and information related to individual sites and lawsuits, such amounts are not reasonably estimable. Total reserves related to environmental remediation, nuclear decommissioning and worker exposure claims were $2,686 million and $2,660 million at December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. As previously reported, in 2000, GE and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) entered into a consent decree relating to PCB cleanup of the Housatonic River in Massachusetts. In October 2016, EPA issued its final decision pursuant to the consent decree. In January 2018, the EPA’s Environmental Appeals Board (EAB) remanded the decision back to the EPA with instruction to reissue a revised final remedy. After successful mediation with key stakeholders (including EPA, GE, certain towns, and environmental groups), public comment and further review by the EAB, the final revised permit (issued in January 2021) became effective in March 2022. In May 2022, two environmental advocacy groups petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit to review the EPA’s final permit. As of December 31, 2022 and based on its assessment of current facts and circumstances and its defenses, GE believes that it has recorded adequate reserves to cover future obligations associated with the proposed final remedy. Expenditures for site remediation, nuclear decommissioning and worker exposure claims amounted to approximately $231 million, $193 million and $180 million for the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, respectively. We presently expect that such expenditures will be approximately $250 million and $300 million in 2023 and 2024, respectively. NOTE 25. OPERATING SEGMENTS BASIS FOR PRESENTATION. Our operating businesses are organized based on the nature of markets and customers. Segment accounting policies are the same as described and referenced in Note 1. A description of our operating segments as of December 31, 2022 can be found in the Segment Operations section within MD&A. Intersegment revenues External revenues Total segment revenues SEGMENT REVENUES Commercial Engines & Services Military Systems & Other Onshore Wind Grid Solutions equipment and services Hydro, Offshore Wind and Hybrid Solutions Gas Power Steam Power Power Conversion, Nuclear and other Healthcare Systems Pharmaceutical Diagnostics BioPharma Total segment revenues Revenues are classified according to the region to which equipment and services are sold. For purposes of this analysis, the U.S. is presented separately from the remainder of the Americas. REMAINING PERFORMANCE OBLIGATION. As of December 31, 2022, the aggregate amount of the contracted revenues allocated to our unsatisfied (or partially unsatisfied) performance obligations was $250,997 million. We expect to recognize revenue as we satisfy our remaining performance obligations as follows: 1) equipment-related remaining performance obligation of $48,936 million of which 59%, 81% and 98% is expected to be recognized within 1, 2 and 5 years, respectively, and the remaining thereafter; and 2) services-related remaining performance obligations of $202,061 million of which 13%, 46%, 70% and 84% is expected to be recognized within 1, 5, 10 and 15 years, respectively, and the remaining thereafter. Contract modifications could affect both the timing to complete as well as the amount to be received as we fulfill the related remaining performance obligations. Total sales of equipment and services to agencies of the U.S. Government were 6%, 6% and 7% of total revenues for the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, respectively. Within our Aerospace segment, defense-related sales were 5%, 5% and 6% of total revenues for the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, respectively.
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Interest and other financial charges Non-operating benefit income (cost) Goodwill impairments Earnings (loss) from continuing operations attributable to GE common shareholders Earnings (loss) from discontinued operations attributable to GE common shareholders (a) Includes interest and other financial charges of $54 million, $63 million and $50 million and benefit for income taxes of $213 million, $162 million and $154 million related to EFS within Corporate for the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021, and 2020, respectively. Assets Property, plant and equipment additions(a) Depreciation and amortization At December 31 Corporate(b)(c) Total continuing (a)Additions to property, plant and equipment include amounts relating to principal businesses purchased. (b)Depreciation and amortization included the Steam asset sale impairment in the first quarter of 2022. (c)Included deferred income taxes that are presented as assets for purposes of our Statement of Financial Position presentation. We classify certain assets that cannot meaningfully be associated with specific geographic areas as “Other Global” for this purpose. Asia Other Global
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The decrease in continuing assets in 2022 was primarily driven by decreases in estimated fair value of our debt securities, depreciation and amortization on property, plant and equipment and intangible assets, including the Steam asset sale impairment, and the effects of a stronger U.S. dollar. Property, plant and equipment – net associated with operations based in the United States were $7,508 million and $8,411 million at December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. Property, plant and equipment – net associated with operations based outside the United States were $6,970 million and $7,198 million at December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. NOTE 26. SUMMARIZED FINANCIAL INFORMATION. We account for our remaining interest in Baker Hughes (comprising 7 million shares with approximately 1% ownership interest as of December 31, 2022) at fair value. As of November 3, 2021, our investment in BKR ownership reduced below 20%, and as a result, we no longer have significant influence in BKR. The fair value of our interest in Baker Hughes at December 31, 2022 and 2021 was $207 million and $4,010 million, respectively. We recognized a realized and unrealized pre-tax gain of $912 million ($702 million after-tax) based on a share price of $29.53, a realized and unrealized pre-tax gain of $938 million ($696 million after-tax) based on a share price of $24.06, and a realized and unrealized pre-tax loss of $2,037 million ($1,562 million after-tax) based on a share price of $20.85 for the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, respectively. The 2022 gain, 2021 gain and 2020 loss included a $109 million pre-tax derivative gain, a $129 million pre-tax derivative gain and a $54 million pre-tax derivative loss, respectively, associated with the forward sale of Baker Hughes shares pursuant to our previously announced program to monetize our Baker Hughes position. During the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, we completed forward sales of 160 million, 183 million and 28 million shares and received proceeds of $4,717 million, $4,145 million and $417 million, respectively. In January 2023, we sold our remaining 7 million shares and received net proceeds of $216 million. See Notes 2, 3 and 19 for further information. Summarized financial information of Baker Hughes is as follows. 2021(b) Gross Profit (a) As of November 3, 2021, our investment in BKR reduced below 20%, and as a result, we no longer have significant influence. (b) Financial information is from January 1, 2021 to November 3, 2021 (date investment in BKR reduced below 20%). On November 1, 2021, we received 111.5 million ordinary shares of AerCap (approximately 46% ownership interest) and an AerCap senior note as partial consideration in conjunction with the GECAS transaction, for which we have adopted the fair value option. The fair value of our interest in AerCap, including the note, at December 31, 2022 and 2021 was $7,403 million and $8,287 million, respectively. We recognized an unrealized pre-tax loss of $865 million ($1,052 million after-tax) based on a share price of $58.32 and an unrealized pre-tax and after-tax gain of $711 million based on a share price of $65.42 related to our interest in AerCap for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. See Notes 2, 3 and 19 for further information. Given AerCap summarized financial information is not available as of the date of this filing, this information is reported on a one quarter lag. Summarized financial information of AerCap is as follows.
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Other · Removed note explaining AerCap financial data reporting began October 1, 2021 instead of November 1, 2021 due to unavailable monthly data.
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(a) As we are unable to obtain monthly financial data for AerCap to match the exact period of ownership, we reported summarized financial information for AerCap starting October 1, 2021 instead of November 1, 2021.
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Other · Removed summarized financial information for Commercial Aerospace Joint Ventures including CFM International, Engine Alliance, GE Honda Aero Engines, and Advanced Atomization Technologies.
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Flight equipment held for operating leases, net Debt (a) Financial information is from September 30, 2022. Baker Hughes and AerCap are SEC registrants with separate filing requirements, and their respective financial information can be obtained from www.sec.gov. GE, within its Aerospace segment, has interests in certain joint ventures formed to manufacture and service commercial jet engines and engine parts, collectively referred to herein as the Commercial Aerospace Joint Ventures. These interests include: CFM International Inc., CFM International SA and CFM Materials, LP, joint operations of the CFM56 and LEAP engine programs with Safran Aircraft Engines, a subsidiary of Safran Group of France; Engine Alliance, LLC, a joint operation of the GP7200 engine program with Raytheon Technologies Corporation via their Pratt & Whitney segment; GE Honda Aero Engines, LLC, a joint operation of the HF120 engine program with Honda Aero, Inc; and Advanced Atomization Technologies, LLC, a joint operation for engine fuel nozzles with Parker-Hannifin Corporation. GE recognizes revenue on sales to these Commercial Aerospace Joint Ventures upon the transfer of its products and services, of which the timing and the amount of revenue recognized could be different than that of the joint ventures. Summarized financial information of these Commercial Aerospace Joint Ventures is as follows. Gross Profit
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Other · Removed quarterly unaudited financial information and subsequent event disclosure regarding January 3, 2023 GE HealthCare spin-off completion.
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Current assets Current liabilities NOTE 27. QUARTERLY INFORMATION (UNAUDITED) First quarter Second quarter Third quarter Fourth quarter (Per-share amounts in dollars) Sales of equipment and services Less net earnings (loss) attributable to Per-share amounts – earnings (loss) from continuing operations Per-share amounts – earnings (loss) from discontinued operations Per-share amounts – net earnings (loss) Dividends declared Earnings-per-share amounts are computed independently each quarter for earnings (loss) from continuing operations, earnings (loss) from discontinued operations and net earnings (loss). As a result, the sum of each quarter’s per-share amount may not equal the total per-share amount for the respective year; and the sum of per-share amounts from continuing operations and discontinued operations may not equal the total per-share amounts for net earnings (loss) for the respective quarters. NOTE 28. SUBSEQUENT EVENT. On January 3, 2023 (the Distribution Date), GE completed the previously announced separation of its HealthCare business, into a separate, independent publicly traded company, GE HealthCare Technologies, Inc. (GE HealthCare). The Separation was structured as a tax-free spin-off, and was achieved through GE's pro-rata distribution of approximately 80.1% of the outstanding shares of GE HealthCare to holders of GE common stock. On the Distribution Date, each holder of record of GE common stock received one share of GE HealthCare common stock for every three shares of GE common stock held. As a result of the Separation, GE HealthCare became an independent public company that trades under the symbol “GEHC” on The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC and we will no longer consolidate GE HealthCare into our financial results. In connection with the Separation, the historical results of GE HealthCare and certain assets and liabilities included in the Separation will be reported in GE's consolidated financial statements as discontinued operations beginning in the first quarter of 2023. GE will prospectively measure its retained ownership interest of approximately 19.9% in GE HealthCare common stock at fair value. This equity ownership interest and the related earnings impact from subsequent changes in its fair value will be recognized in continuing operations. In addition, we expect to fully monetize our stake in GE HealthCare over time. Also in connection with the Separation, the Company entered into various agreements to effect the Separation and provide a framework for the relationship between GE and GE HealthCare, including a Separation and Distribution Agreement (SDA), a Tax Matters Agreement and a Transition Services Agreement (TSA). In connection with the Separation and as a result of the legal split of certain plans as set forth in Note 13, net liabilities of approximately $4.0 billion associated with GE's postretirement benefit plans, including a portion of the principal pension plans, the principal retiree benefit plans and other pension plans were transferred to GE HealthCare. Deferred compensation arrangements and other compensation and benefits obligations of approximately $0.7 billion were also transferred to GE HealthCare. The legal split and transfer of the plans and the related liabilities and obligations to GE HealthCare will impact our assumptions and projections used to determine the funding and costs of GE’s remaining plans. In connection with the Separation, GE received $1.5 billion of cash funded by GE HealthCare's additional $2.0 billion of indebtedness incurred on January 3, 2023. Following the Separation, GE has remaining performance and bank guarantees on behalf of its former HealthCare business. Under the SDA, GE HealthCare is obligated to use reasonable best efforts to replace GE as the guarantor on or terminate all such credit support instruments. Until such termination or replacement, in the event of non-fulfillment of contractual obligations by the relevant obligor(s), GE could be obligated to make payments under the applicable instruments. Under the SDA, GE HealthCare is obligated to reimburse and indemnify GE for any such payments. As of January 3, 2023, GE’s maximum aggregate exposure under such credit support instruments is approximately $0.5 billion. Most of these guarantees are not expected to remain in effect as of December 2023. In addition, GE also has an obligation under the TSA to indemnify GE HealthCare for certain of its technology costs of approximately $0.1 billion, which are expected to be incurred by GE HealthCare within the first year following the Separation.
removed Total lease liability as of December 31, 2022
Other · Removed supplemental operating lease information including cash flows, right-of-use assets, and weighted-average lease terms as of December 31, 2022.
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SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION RELATED TO OPERATING LEASES Operating cash flows used for operating leases Right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for new lease liabilities Weighted-average remaining lease term Weighted-average discount rate NOTE 7. ACQUISITIONS, GOODWILL AND OTHER INTANGIBLE ASSETS ACQUISITIONS. On December 21, 2021 our HealthCare business acquired BK Medical, a leader in surgical ultrasound imaging and guidance technology, for $1,455 million. The final purchase price allocation resulted in goodwill of $997 million, amortizable intangible assets of $398 million and indefinite-lived intangible assets of $23 million. CHANGES IN GOODWILL BALANCES Acquisitions
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Other · Removed 2022 intangible asset impairment charge of $765 million for GE Steam Power and five-year amortization estimates.
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(a) Balances include indefinite-lived intangible assets. Substantially all other intangible assets are subject to amortization. Intangible assets decreased $1,705 million in 2022, primarily as a result of amortization partially offset by the acquisition of capitalized software and patents and technology mainly at Aerospace and HealthCare of $209 million. Consolidated amortization expense was $1,742 million, $1,138 million and $1,336 million for the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, respectively. In the first quarter of 2022, we signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding for GE Steam Power to sell a portion of its business to EDF, which resulted in a reclassification of that business to held for sale. As a result, we recognized a non-cash pre-tax impairment charge of $765 million related to intangible assets at our remaining Steam business within our Power segment. We determined the fair value of these intangible assets using an income approach. This charge was recorded by Corporate in Selling, general, and administrative expenses in our consolidated Statement of Earnings (Loss). Estimated consolidated annual pre-tax amortization for intangible assets over the next five calendar years are as follows: ESTIMATED 5 YEAR CONSOLIDATED AMORTIZATION Estimated annual pre-tax amortization During 2022, we recorded additions to intangible assets subject to amortization of $214 million with a weighted-average amortizable period of 7.1 years, including capitalized software of $172 million, with a weighted-average amortizable period of 5.9 years. NOTE 8. CONTRACT AND OTHER DEFERRED ASSETS & PROGRESS COLLECTIONS AND DEFERRED INCOME Contract and other deferred assets decreased $1,907 million in the year ended December 31, 2022 primarily due to decreased long-term service agreements and the timing of billing milestones ahead of revenue recognition on long-term equipment contracts. Our long-term service agreements decreased primarily due to billings of $11,665 million, partially offset by revenues recognized of $9,680 million and net favorable changes in estimated profitability of $85 million at Aerospace and $303 million at Power, primarily attributable to contractual increases in billings, partially offset by cost inflation. Revenues in excess of billings Billings in excess of revenues Long-term service agreements Short-term and other service agreements Equipment contract revenues Current contract assets Nonrecurring engineering costs(a) Customer advances and other(b) Non-current contract and other deferred assets
removed Liquidity - Failure to meet our cash flow targets, or additional credit downgrades, could adversely affect our liquidity, funding costs and related margins.
Credit & liquidity · Removed standalone liquidity risk factor addressing cash flow targets, credit downgrades, and GE Vernova spin-off execution; consolidated into revised Borrowings & liquidity heading.
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We rely primarily on cash and cash equivalents, free cash flows from our operating businesses and cash generated from asset sales and dispositions (including from our equity stakes in AerCap and GE HealthCare) to fund our operations and meet our financial obligations, and to meet our capital allocation objectives. We maintain short-term borrowing facilities, including revolving credit facilities, as a contingency buffer of liquidity and to meet our financial obligations and capital allocation priorities. Failure to meet our cash flow objectives could adversely affect our financial condition or our credit ratings. There can be no assurance that we will not face credit downgrades as a result of factors such as the performance of our businesses, the failure to make progress as planned on the separation transactions and continued progress in decreasing GE’s leverage, reduced diversification of GE’s businesses following the separation transactions, or changes in rating application or methodology. Future downgrades could further adversely affect our ability to execute the planned spin-off of GE Vernova, as well as our cost of funds and related margins, liquidity, competitive position and access to capital markets, and a significant downgrade could have an adverse commercial impact on our businesses. In addition, swap, forward and option contracts are executed under standard master agreements that typically contain mutual downgrade provisions that provide the ability of the counterparty to require termination if the credit ratings of the applicable GE entity were to fall below specified ratings levels agreed upon with the counterparty. For additional discussion about our current credit ratings and related considerations, refer to the Capital Resources and Liquidity - Credit Ratings and Conditions section within MD&A.
removed Amounts attributable to GE common shareholders
Other · Removed consolidated statement of financial position and cash flows line items and related per-share metrics.
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Less net earnings (loss) attributable to noncontrolling interests, continuing operations Earnings (loss) from continuing operations attributable to the Company Earnings (loss) from continuing operations attributable to GE common shareholders Earnings (loss) from discontinued operations attributable to GE common shareholders Earnings (loss) per share from continuing operations (Note 18) Net earnings (loss) per share (Note 18) STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION December 31 (In millions) Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash Investment securities (Note 3) Current receivables (Note 4) Inventories, including deferred inventory costs (Note 5) Current contract assets (Note 8) All other current assets (Note 9) Assets of businesses held for sale (Note 2) Current assets Investment securities (Note 3) Property, plant and equipment – net (Note 6) Goodwill (Note 7) Other intangible assets – net (Note 7) Contract and other deferred assets (Note 8) All other assets (Note 9) Deferred income taxes (Note 15) Assets of discontinued operations (Note 2) Short-term borrowings (Note 10) Accounts payable and equipment project payables (Note 11) All other current liabilities (Note 14) Liabilities of businesses held for sale (Note 2) Current liabilities Deferred income Long-term borrowings (Note 10) Insurance liabilities and annuity benefits (Note 12) Non-current compensation and benefits All other liabilities (Note 14) Liabilities of discontinued operations (Note 2) Preferred stock (Note 16) Common stock (Note 16) Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) – net attributable to GE Other capital Retained earnings Less common stock held in treasury Total GE shareholders’ equity Noncontrolling interests (Note 16) Total equity
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Other · Removed cash flow statement investing activities line items.
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Additions to property, plant and equipment Dispositions of property, plant and equipment Additions to internal-use software Proceeds from sale of discontinued operations Proceeds from principal business dispositions Net cash from (payments for) principal businesses purchased Sales of retained ownership interests Net (purchases) dispositions of insurance investment securities All other investing activities
removed INTANGIBLE ASSETS SUBJECT TO AMORTIZATION December 31 Useful lives (in years) Gross carrying Accumulated amortization Net Gross carrying Accumulated amortization Net
Other · Removed detailed intangible assets table showing customer-related, patents, software, and trademark balances with useful lives and amortization.
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Customer-related(a) Patents and technology Capitalized software Trademarks & other (a) Balance includes payments made to our customers, primarily within our Aerospace business.
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Other · Removed contract and deferred asset details including revenues in excess of billings, service agreements, and customer advances.
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Revenues in excess of billings Billings in excess of revenues Long-term service agreements Short-term and other service agreements Equipment contract revenues Current contract assets Nonrecurring engineering costs(a) Customer advances and other(b) Non-current contract and other deferred assets
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Other · Removed cash flow statement financing activities line items.
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Net increase (decrease) in borrowings (maturities of 90 days or less) Newly issued debt (maturities longer than 90 days) Repayments and other debt reductions (maturities longer than 90 days) Dividends paid to shareholders Cash received (paid) for debt extinguishment costs Purchases of GE common stock for treasury All other financing activities
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Other · Removed 2022 goodwill impairment test results showing Digital and Additive reporting units with 16% and 21% fair value cushions respectively.
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(a) Corporate balance at December 31, 2022 and 2021 comprises our Digital business. In the fourth quarter of 2022, we performed our annual impairment test. Based on the results of this test, the fair values of each of our reporting units exceeded their carrying values, however, we identified two reporting units for which the fair values were not substantially in excess of their carrying values. The fair values of our Digital reporting unit at Corporate and the Additive reporting unit in our Aerospace segment were in excess of their carrying values by 16% and 21%, respectively. At December 31, 2022, our Digital and Additive reporting units had goodwill of $818 million and $239 million, respectively. Determining the fair value of reporting units requires the use of estimates and significant judgments that are based on a number of factors including actual operating results. It is reasonably possible that the judgments and estimates described above could change in future periods.
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Other · Removed statement of cash flows detail lines for operating, investing, and financing activities.
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STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS (Earnings) loss from discontinued operations activities Adjustments to reconcile net earnings (loss) to cash from (used for) operating activities Depreciation and amortization of property, plant and equipment Amortization of intangible assets (Note 7) Goodwill impairments (Note 7) (Gains) losses on purchases and sales of business interests (Note 19) (Gains) losses on equity securities (Note 19) Principal pension plans cost (Note 13) Principal pension plans employer contributions (Note 13) Other postretirement benefit plans (net) (Note 13) Provision (benefit) for income taxes (Note 15) Cash recovered (paid) during the year for income taxes Changes in operating working capital: Decrease (increase) in current receivables Decrease (increase) in inventories, including deferred inventory costs Decrease (increase) in current contract assets Increase (decrease) in accounts payable and equipment project payables Increase (decrease) in progress collections and current deferred income Financial services derivatives net collateral/settlement All other operating activities
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Other · Removed detailed inventory composition breakdown including deferred inventory costs for shipped goods and service contracts.
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(a) Represents cost deferral for shipped goods (such as components for wind turbine assemblies within our Renewable Energy segment) and labor and overhead costs on time and material service contracts (primarily originating in Power and Aerospace) and other costs for which the criteria for revenue recognition has not yet been met. NOTE 6. PROPERTY, PLANT AND EQUIPMENT AND OPERATING LEASES Depreciable lives Original Cost Net Carrying Value (in years) Land and improvements Buildings, structures and related equipment Machinery and equipment Leasehold costs and manufacturing plant under construction ROU operating lease assets
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Other · Removed financial statement line items (earnings from continuing operations, income tax provision, discontinued operations, noncontrolling interests).
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Benefit (provision) for income taxes (Note 15) Earnings (loss) from discontinued operations, net of taxes (Note 2) Less net earnings (loss) attributable to noncontrolling interests
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Other · Removed disclosure of customer receivables sales programs and Working Capital Solutions business activity details.
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Previously, GE businesses sold customer receivables to our Working Capital Solutions (WCS) business. These programs were discontinued in 2021. Separately, the Company from time to time sells current or long-term receivables to third parties in response to customer-sponsored requests or programs, to facilitate sales, or for risk mitigation purposes. Activity related to current customer receivables sold by GE businesses is as follows: Third Parties WCS Third Parties GE businesses sales to WCS GE businesses sales to third parties(a) WCS sales to third parties Collections and other Reclassification from long-term customer receivables (a) The Company sold current customer receivables to third parties related primarily to our participation in customer-sponsored supply chain finance programs. Within these programs, primarily in Renewable Energy and Aerospace, the Company has no continuing involvement, fees associated with the transferred receivables are covered by the customer and cash is received at the original invoice due date. LONG-TERM RECEIVABLES Long-term customer receivables(a) Financing receivables Supplier advances Non-income based tax receivables Receivables from disposed businesses Sundry receivables Allowance for credit losses Total long-term receivables (a) The Company sold $86 million and $53 million of long-term customer receivables to third parties for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively, primarily in our Gas Power business for risk mitigation purposes. NOTE 5. INVENTORIES, INCLUDING DEFERRED INVENTORY COSTS Raw materials and work in process Finished goods Deferred inventory costs(a)
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Other · Removed 2022 disclosure of GE Steam Power sale memorandum to EDF, $59 million impairment charge, and operating lease liability details.
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In the first quarter of 2022, we signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding for GE Steam Power to sell a portion of its business to EDF, which resulted in a reclassification of that business to held for sale. As a result, we recognized a non-cash pre-tax impairment charge of $59 million related to property, plant and equipment at our remaining Steam business within our Power segment. This charge was recorded by Corporate in Selling, general, and administrative expenses in our consolidated Statement of Earnings (Loss). Operating Lease Liabilities. Our consolidated operating lease liabilities, included in All other liabilities in our Statement of Financial Position, was $2,393 million and $2,848 million, as of December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. Substantially all of our operating leases have remaining lease terms of 11 years or less, some of which may include options to extend. OPERATING LEASE EXPENSE Long-term (fixed) Long-term (variable) Short-term
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| AI AI, artificial intelligence, generative AI, machine learning, large language model, LLM | 4 | — | — |
| Layoffs layoffs, RIF, headcount reduction, workforce optimization, restructuring | 3 | — | — |
| Recession recession, downturn, contraction, slowdown | 4 | — | — |
| Tariffs tariff, trade war, trade barriers, trade restrictions, trade policy | 4 | — | — |
| Buybacks share repurchase, buyback program | 1 | — | — |
Underlines use the same word lists the scores use. AI, recession and tariffs follow Palanor’s word counter, so those counts match it exactly on the same text. Layoffs and buybacks use the terms the model was given. The model’s count is an estimate by meaning, not by string, so it can differ from the underlines. This view is built from the parsed risk factors, so it can differ slightly from the section text the counts were taken on.
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