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RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2017
Related Party [Abstract] |
Disclosure of transactions between related parties | The compensation expense for key management for employee services was included in employee salaries and benefits as follows:
|  | Years ended December 31 |
(In millions of dollars) |  | 2017 |  | 2016 |
Salaries and other short-term employee benefits |  | 10 |  | 12 |
Post-employment benefits |  | 3 |  | 5 |
Stock-based compensation 1 |  | 19 |  | 30 |
Total compensation |  | 32 |  | 47 |
1 | Stock-based compensation does not include the effect of changes in fair value of Class B Non-Voting Shares or equity derivatives.
We carried out the following business transactions with our associates and joint arrangements. Transactions between us and our subsidiaries have been eliminated on consolidation and are not disclosed in this note.
|  | Years ended December 31 |
(In millions of dollars) |  | 2017 |  | 2016 |
Revenue |  | 74 |  | 50 |
Purchases |  | 198 |  | 189 |
Below is a summary of related party activity for the business transactions described above.
(In millions of dollars) | Years ended December 31 |  | Outstanding balance as at December 31 |
2017 |  | 2016 |  | 2017 |  | 2016 |
Printing and legal services | 17 |  | 27 |  | — |  | 3 |
Outstanding balances at year-end are unsecured, interest-free, and settled in cash.
|  | As at December 31 |
(In millions of dollars) |  | 2017 |  | 2016 |
Accounts receivable |  | 80 |  | 70 |
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities |  | 26 |  | 32 |

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