E20.5 (LO 3) (Application of Years-of-Service Method) Andrews Company has five employees participating in its defined benefit pension plan. Expected years of future service for these employees at the beginning of 2020 are as follows.

Employee Future year of services
Jim 3
Paul 4
Nancy 5
Dave 6
Kathy 6

On January 1, 2020, the company amended its pension plan, increasing its projected benefit obligation by $150,768.

Compute the amount of prior service cost amortization for the years 2020 through 2024 using the years-of-service method, setting up appropriate schedules.

In which of the following games is it clearly the case that the cooperative outcome of the game is good for the two players and bad for society? a. two oil companies own adjacent oil fields over a common pool of oil, and each company decides whether to drill one well or two wells. b. two airlines dominate air travel between city a and city b, and each airline decides whether to charge a "high" airfare or a "low" airfare on flights between those two cities. c. two superpowers decide whether to build new weapons or to disarm. d. in all of the above cases, the cooperative outcome of the game is good for the two players and bad for society