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Net Finance Costs
 12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2020
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Net Finance Costs
5. Net finance costs
Net finance costs are comprised of finance costs and finance income, including net finance costs in relation to pensions and similar obligations.
Finance income includes income on cash and cash equivalents and income on other financial assets. Finance costs include interest costs in relation to financial liabilities. This includes interest on lease liabilities which represents the unwind of the discount rate applied to lease liabilities.
Borrowing costs are recognised based on the effective interest method.
Net finance costs
  Notes   
€ million
2020
   € million
2019		   € million
2018		 
Finance costs
       
 
(672
) 
   (821)    (718) 
        
 
 
   
 
 
   
 
 
 
Bank loans and overdrafts
       
 
(32
) 
   (46)    (44) 
Interest on bonds and other loans
(a)
       
 
(533
) 
   (617)    (560) 
Interest on lease liabilities
       
 
(82
) 
   (100)    (127) 
Net gain/(loss) on transactions for which hedge accounting is not applied
       
 
(25
) 
   (58)    13 
        
 
 
   
 
 
   
 
 
 
On foreign exchange derivatives
       
 
275
 
   (321)    144 
Exchange difference on underlying items
(b)
       
 
(300
) 
   263    (131) 
        
 
 
   
 
 
   
 
 
 
Finance income
(c)
       
 
232
 
   224    135 
Pensions and similar obligations
   4B   
 
(9
) 
   (30)    (25) 
Net finance costs before
non-underlying
items
(d)
       
 
(449
) 
   (627)    (608) 
Interest related to the UK tax audit of intangible income and centralised services
   3   
 
(56
) 
   —       —    
        
 
 
   
 
 
   
 
 
 
        
 
(505
) 
   (627)    (608) 
        
 
 
   
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
(a)
Interest on bonds and other loans includes the impact of interest rate derivatives that are part of hedge accounting relationships and the related recycling of results from the hedge accounting reserve. Includes an amount of €(21) million (2019: €(6) million) relating to unwinding of discount on deferred consideration for acquisitions.
(b)
2020 includes Nil (2019: €(40) million) finance cost due to change in functional currency in Group’s operating entities in Zimbabwe from US dollar to RTGS dollar. For further details of derivatives for which hedge accounting is not applied, please refer to note 16C.
(c)
Includes an amount of €90 million (2019: €70 million) that relates to interest on tax settlement in Brazil and €
27
 million (2019:
Nil
) related to interest on corporate income tax refund in India.
(d)
See note 3 for explanation of
non-underlying
items.