- DefinitionTabular disclosure of the change in the benefit obligation of pension plans and/or other employee benefit plans from the beginning to the end of the period, showing separately, if applicable, the effects of the following: service cost, interest cost, contributions by plan participants, actuarial gains and losses, foreign currency exchange rate changes, benefits paid, plan amendments, business combinations, divestitures, curtailments, settlements, and special and contractual termination benefits. Disclosure also includes the certain accumulated beneift obligations dislcosure and the assumptions used to determine for pension plans and/or other employee benefit plans the benefit obligation and net benefit cost.
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