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Note 20 - Cash and Cash Equivalents | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2018
Statement Line Items [Line Items] |
Disclosure of cash and cash equivalents [text block] |
20. | CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS
|  |  | 2018 |  |  |  | 2017 |
Short term bank deposits (i) |  |  | 5,992.8 |  |  |  | 4,688.5 |
Current bank accounts |  |  | 4,875.7 |  |  |  | 5,077.1 |
Cash |  |  | 595.0 |  |  |  | 588.9 |
Cash and cash equivalents |  |  | 11,463.5 |  |  |  | 10,354.5 |
Bank overdrafts |  |  | – |  |  |  | (1.8 | )
Cash and cash equivalents less bank overdraft |  |  | 11,463.5 |  |  |  | 10,352.7 |
(i) The balance refers mostly to Bank Deposit Certificates - CDB, high liquidity, which are readily convertible into known amounts of cash and which are subject to an insignificant risk of change in value. Current account balances include guarantee deposits in the amount of R$356 million as of December 31, 2018 ( R$294 million as of December 31, 2017) held by the subsidiary of Cuba, which are not freely transferable to the parent company for reasons of exchange restrictions.

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