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Net Finance Costs (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2017
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Summary of Net Finance Costs |
Net finance costs |  | Notes |  |  |  |  |  | 2017 |  |  | 2016 |  |  | 2015 |
Finance costs |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | (556 | ) |  |  | (584 | ) |  |  | (516 | )
Bank loans and overdrafts |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | (46 | ) |  |  | (67 | ) |  |  | (56 | )
Interest on bonds and other loans(a) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | (519 | ) |  |  | (501 | ) |  |  | (492 | )
Dividends paid on preference shares |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | (4 | ) |  |  | (4 | ) |  |  | (4 | )
Net gain/(loss) on transactions for which hedge accounting is not applied(b) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 13 |  |  |  | (12 | ) |  |  | 36 |
On foreign exchange derivatives |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 384 |  |  |  | (215 | ) |  |  | (218 | )
Exchange difference on underlying items |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | (371 | ) |  |  | 203 |  |  |  | 254 |
Finance income |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 157 |  |  |  | 115 |  |  |  | 144 |
Pensions and similar obligations |  |  | 4B |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | (96 | ) |  |  | (94 | ) |  |  | (121 | )
Net finance costs before non-underlying items(c) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | (495 | ) |  |  | (563 | ) |  |  | (493 | )
Premium paid on buy back of preference shares |  |  | 25 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | (382 | ) |  |  | - |  |  |  | - |
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | (877 | ) |  |  | (563 | ) |  |  | (493 | )
(a) | Interest on bonds and other loans includes the impact of interest rate derivatives that are part of a fair value hedge accounting relationship and the recycling of results from the cash flow hedge accounting reserve relating to derivatives that were part of a cash flow hedge accounting relation. Includes an amount of €(26) million (2016: nil) relating to unwinding of discount on deferred consideration for acquisitions and €65 million (2016: nil) release of provision for interest on indirect tax cases in Brazil for which a federal tax amnesty has been applied.
(b) | For further details of derivatives for which hedge accounting is not applied, please refer to note 16C.
(c) | See note 3 for explanation of non-underlying items.

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