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CAPITAL MANAGEMENT (Tables) | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2023
Disclosure of Capital Management [Abstract] |
Schedule of invested capital | We define Invested Capital as partnership capital removing the impact of the following items: non-controlling interest in operating subsidiaries, retained earnings or deficit, accumulated other comprehensive income and ownership changes.
| As of
US$ MILLIONS | June 30, 2023 |  | December 31, 2022
Partnership Capital | $ | 28,623 |  |  | $ | 25,554 |
Remove impact of the following items since inception: |  |  |
Non-controlling interest - in operating subsidiaries | (18,640) |  |  | (15,320) |
Deficit | 3,746 |  |  | 3,422 |
Accumulated other comprehensive income | (880) |  |  | (817) |
Ownership changes and other | (560) |  |  | (558) |
Invested Capital | $ | 12,289 |  |  | $ | 12,281 |
The following table presents the change in Invested Capital during the three and six-month periods ended June 30, 2023 and 2022:
| For the three-month period ended June 30 |  | For the six-month period ended June 30
US$ MILLIONS | 2023 |  | 2022 |  | 2023 |  | 2022
Opening balance | $ | 12,287 |  |  | $ | 12,272 |  |  | $ | 12,281 |  |  | $ | 12,195 |
Net redemption of preferred units | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | (220) |
Issuance of perpetual subordinated notes | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | 293 |
Issuance of limited partnership units | 2 |  |  | 4 |  |  | 8 |  |  | 8 |
Ending balance | $ | 12,289 |  |  | $ | 12,276 |  |  | $ | 12,289 |  |  | $ | 12,276 |
Weighted Average Invested Capital(1) | $ | 12,287 |  |  | $ | 12,272 |  |  | $ | 12,284 |  |  | $ | 12,262 |
1.For the purposes of calculating Weighted Average Invested Capital for the six-month period ended June 30, 2022, redemption of preferred units and issuance of perpetual subordinated notes of $220 million and $293 million, respectively, were assumed to have been completed concurrently in January of 2022

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