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GASB Update #78 – Guidance for Multiple-Employer Defined Benefit Pension Plans

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July 31, 2017

To further enable state and local governmental employers to obtain necessary measurements and information for some multiple-employer defined benefit plans, the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) issued Statement No. 78 – Pensions Provided through Certain Multiple-Employer Defined Benefit Pension Plans – in December 2015. 

Statement No. 78 amends the scope and applicability of Statement No. 68 – Accounting and Financial Reporting for Pensions – and applies to cost-sharing multiple-employer defined benefit pension plans that:

Statement No. 78 includes requirements for recognizing and measuring pension expense, expenditures and liabilities, as well as note disclosures and required supplementary information. 

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