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Other Assets and Other Financial Assets (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2018
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Disclosure of Other Non-Current Assets | 13.1 Other non-current assets
|  | December 31, 2018 |  |  | December 31, 2017 |
Agreement with customers |  | Ps. | 897 |  |  | Ps. | 849 |
Long term prepaid advertising expenses |  |  | 388 |  |  |  | 298 |
Guarantee deposits (1) |  |  | 2,910 |  |  |  | 3,491 |
Prepaid bonuses |  |  | 248 |  |  |  | 151 |
Advances to acquire property, plant and equipment |  |  | 233 |  |  |  | 266 |
Recoverable taxes |  |  | 1,289 |  |  |  | 1,674 |
Indemnifiable assets from business combinations (2) |  |  | 3,336 |  |  |  | 4,510 |
Recoverable taxes from business combinations |  |  | 395 |  |  |  | 458 |
Others |  |  | 621 |  |  |  | 828 |
|  | Ps. | 10,317 |  |  | Ps. | 12,525 |
(1) | As it is customary in Brazil, the Company is required to guarantee tax, legal and labor contingencies by guarantee deposits including those related to business acquisitions. See Note 25.7.
(2) | Corresponds to indemnifiable assets that are warranted by former Vonpar owners as per the share purchase agreement. See Note 4.1.3
Disclosure of Other Non-Current Financial Assets | 13.2 Other non-current financial assets
|  | December 31, 2018 |  |  | December 31, 2017 |
Non-current accounts receivable |  | Ps. | 724 |  |  | Ps. | 733 |
Derivative financial instruments (see Note 20) |  |  | 10,752 |  |  |  | 10,137 |
Investments (2) |  |  | 11,810 |  |  |  | — |
Investments in other entities (1) |  |  | — |  |  |  | 1,039 |
Others |  |  | 101 |  |  |  | 164 |
|  | Ps. | 23,387 |  |  | Ps. | 12,073 |
(1) | In 2017, Coca-Cola FEMSA determined that deteriorating conditions in its Venezuela’s investment subsidiary had led the Company to no longer meet the accounting criteria to continue consolidating its operations. For further information about the impacts of such deconsolidation, see Note 3.3 above.
(2) | It represents an investment in corporate debt securities with variable interest rates, measured at amortized cost. The carrying value approximates its fair value as of December 31, 2018.

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