Pharoah Company sponsors a defined benefit plan for its employees. On January the company's actuary provided the
following information.
The average remaining service period for the participating employees is years. All employees are expected to receive benefits
under the plan. On December the actuary calculated that the present value of future benefits earned for employee services
rendered in the current year amounted to $; the projected benefit obligation was $; fair value of pension assets was
$; the accumulated benefit obligation amounted to $ The expected return on plan assets and the discount rate on the
projected benefit obligation were both The actual return on plan assets is $ The company's current year's contribution to
the pension plan amounted to $ No benefits were paid during the year.
