Amherst City provides a defined benefit pension plan for employees of the city electric utility, an enterprise fund. Assume that the projected level of earnings on plan investments is $165,000, the service cost component is $260,000, and interest on the pension liability is $99,000 for the year. The City is amortizing a deferred outflow resulting from a change in plan assumptions from a prior year in the amount of $5,500 per year. Requried: Prepare journal entries to record annual pension expenses for the enterprise fund.

Amherst City provides a defined benefit pension plan for employees of the city electric utility, an enterprise fund. Assume that the projected level of earnings on plan investments is $165,000, the service cost component is $260,000, and interest on the pension liability is $99,000 for the year. The City is amortizing a deferred outflow resulting from a change in plan assumptions from a prior year in the amount of $5,500 per year. Requried: Prepare journal entries to record annual pension expenses for the enterprise fund.

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Prepare journal entries to record annual pension expenses for the enterprise fund.

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