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Pharoah Corp. reports the following information (in hundreds of thousands of dollars) to you about its defined benefit pension plan for 2017:
Computation of the continuity schedule for the DBO for the year as follows:
Pharoah Corp.
Continuity Schedule
2017
Defined Benefits Obligation, opening balance $ 97
Less: Benefits paid to retirees $ 11
Add: Current service cost $ 19
Add: Interest cost $ 10
Add: Past service costs = (cost of plan amendment in year) $ 14
Defined Benefits Obligation, ending balance $ 129