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Financial results | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2017
Disclosure of income statement [Abstract] |
Disclosure Of Income Statement Explanatory [Text Block] | Note 32 Financial results The financial results composition is detailed as follows:
|  | For the years ended as of December 31, |
Financial results |  | 2017 |  | 2016 |  | 2015 |
|  | ThCh$ |  | ThCh$ |  | ThCh$ |
Finance income |  |  | 5,050,952 |  |  | 5,680,068 |  |  | 7,845,743 |
Finance costs |  |  | (24,166,313) |  |  | (20,307,238) |  |  | (23,101,329) |
Foreign currency exchange differences |  |  | (2,563,019) |  |  | 456,995 |  |  | 957,565 |
Result as per adjustment units |  |  | (110,539) |  |  | (2,246,846) |  |  | (3,282,736) |

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