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Other income and expenses

Everything outside the core business: disposals of property, fines, currency effects, write-offs, one-off compensation.

How to read the number

The least stable part of the accounts. Valuation work normally strips it out — it will not repeat next year.

When the metric lies

The line is sometimes larger than operating profit, and then net income describes a single event rather than a business.

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