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Every term is defined twice: once the way a filing would put it, and once the way somebody would explain it to you across a table. The second one is usually the one that sticks.

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Minority interest

Accounting

The share of a subsidiary’s profit, and of its net assets, belonging to other shareholders.

In plain terms

The older name for what Ind AS calls a non-controlling interest. Compute per-share figures after deducting it — from profit and from equity both — or you overstate earnings and book value together.

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Non-controlling interest

Accounting
Also called: NCI

The share of a subsidiary’s profit and of its net assets belonging to shareholders other than the parent — presented as a separate line in consolidated profit and separately inside consolidated equity.

In plain terms

The Ind AS name for what older accounts called minority interest, and it has two halves. Ignore the profit half and earnings per share is overstated; ignore the equity half and book value per share is.

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