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RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2017
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RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS | RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS CONTROLLING SHAREHOLDER Our ultimate controlling shareholder is the Rogers Control Trust (the Trust), which holds voting control of RCI. The beneficiaries of the Trust are members of the Rogers family. Certain directors of RCI represent the Rogers family. We entered into certain transactions with private Rogers family holding companies controlled by the Trust. These transactions were recognized at the amount agreed to by the related parties and are subject to the terms and conditions of formal agreements approved by the Audit and Risk Committee. The totals received or paid were less than $1 million for each of 2017 and 2016. TRANSACTIONS WITH KEY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL Key management personnel include the directors and our most senior corporate officers, who are primarily responsible for planning, directing, and controlling our business activities. Compensation 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.
Transactions We have entered into business transactions with companies whose partners or senior officers are Directors of RCI. These directors are:
• | the non-executive chairman of a law firm that provides a portion of our legal services; and
• | the chair of the board of a company that provides printing services to the Company.
We recognize these transactions at the amount agreed to by the related parties, which are also reviewed by the Audit and Risk Committee. The amounts owing are unsecured, interest-free, and due for payment in cash within one month of the date of the transaction. 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 |
In addition, during the year ended December 31, 2016, we announced a strategic change across our publishing business such that we will focus on digital content through the Internet and mobile applications. As a result, we sold select publishing titles to the aforementioned printing services company for $5 million. SUBSIDIARIES, ASSOCIATES, AND JOINT ARRANGEMENTS We have the following material operating subsidiaries as at December 31, 2017 and 2016:
• | Rogers Communications Canada Inc.; and
• | Rogers Media Inc.
We have 100% ownership interest in these subsidiaries. Our subsidiaries are incorporated in Canada and have the same reporting period for annual financial statements reporting. When necessary, adjustments are made to conform the accounting policies of the subsidiaries to those of RCI. There are no significant restrictions on the ability of subsidiaries, joint arrangements, and associates to transfer funds to Rogers as cash dividends or to repay loans or advances, subject to the approval of other shareholders where applicable. 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 |
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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