Earnings per Share Attributable to Ameriprise Financial, Inc. Common Shareholders

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Earnings per Share Attributable to Ameriprise Financial, Inc. Common Shareholders

Earnings per Share Attributable to Ameriprise Financial, Inc. Common Shareholders

18. Earnings per Share Attributable to Ameriprise Financial, Inc. Common Shareholders

The Company retrospectively adopted a new accounting standard for DAC in the first quarter of 2012. See Note 1 for the effect of the change on earnings per share attributable to Ameriprise Financial, Inc. common shareholders for prior periods retrospectively adjusted.

The computations of basic and diluted earnings per share attributable to Ameriprise Financial, Inc. common shareholders are as follows:

	Years Ended December 31,
	2012			2011			2010
	(in millions, except per share amounts)
Numerator
Income from continuing operations	$	903		$	1,070		$	1,176
Less: Net income (loss) attributable to noncontrolling interests		(128	)		(106	)		163
Income from continuing operations attributable to Ameriprise Financial		1,031			1,176			1,013
Loss from discontinued operations, net of tax		(2	)		(60	)		(24	)
Net income attributable to Ameriprise Financial	$	1,029		$	1,116		$	989
Denominator
Basic: Weighted-average common shares outstanding		218.7			241.4			257.4
Effect of potentially dilutive nonqualified stock options and other share-based awards		4.1			4.9			4.9
Diluted: Weighted-average common shares outstanding		222.8			246.3			262.3
Earnings per share attributable to
Ameriprise Financial, Inc. common shareholders
Basic:
Income from continuing operations	$	4.71		$	4.87		$	3.94
Loss from discontinued operations		(0.01	)		(0.25	)		(0.10	)
Net income	$	4.70		$	4.62		$	3.84
Diluted:
Income from continuing operations	$	4.63		$	4.77		$	3.86
Loss from discontinued operations		(0.01	)		(0.24	)		(0.09	)
Net income	$	4.62		$	4.53		$	3.77

For the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010, the dilutive effect of nonqualified stock options and other share based-awards excludes nil, 6.1 million and 2.2 million options, respectively, from the computation of earnings per share attributable to Ameriprise Financial, Inc. common shareholders. The inclusion of the options would have been anti-dilutive.