-post performance of predictions for inflation, real GDP growth and the unemployment rate are related to assumptions about future oil …

companies to make assumptions regarding discount rates, projected salary increases, and expected long-term return on plan assets …. Such assumptions, in turn, determine the funding status of the pension plan and the annual pension expense. Higher assumed … assumptions and the funding status of a pension plan. The results reveal that companies with pension plans that are more fully …

Even in science, there is always the human element of using our own assumptions in logic, our feelings, our values and …