The Company accounts for the cost of pension plans and postretirement benefits other than pensions substantially in accordance with SFAS No. 87 ‘Employers Accounting for Pensions' and SFAS No. 106 ‘Postretirement Benefits other than Pensions', respectively. Most of the Company's defined benefit plans are funded with plan assets that have been segregated and restricted in a trust to provide for the pension benefits to which the Company has committed itself. When plan assets have not been segregated by the Company or in such cases in which the Company is required to make additional pension payments, the Company recognizes a provision for such amounts. The costs related to defined.
