The Company has excluded $91 million of after-tax income ($0.59 of diluted EPS) related to the gain on sales of businesses, partially offset by merger and acquisition-related charges and a one-time net tax charge related to recently enacted U.S. tax legislation, in the 2017 calculation of diluted EPS. The Company has excluded the 2014 and 2013 after-tax merger and acquisition-related charges of $49 million ($0.30 of diluted EPS) and $270 million ($1.70 of diluted EPS), respectively, in the calculation of diluted EPS. These amounts were excluded because the Company believes doing so provides a better indicator of operating trends when analyzing diluted EPS, due to the unusually large magnitude of these amounts and the fact that they are non-recurring. Therefore, the Company has provided these measures both including and excluding such amounts.