Intermediate Accounting
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Author: J. David Spiceland, Mark W. Nelson, Wayne M Thomas
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Chapter 17, Problem 17.9E
To determine
Pension expense: Pension expense is an expense to the employer paid as compensation after the completion of services performed by the employees.
Pension expense includes the following components:
- Service cost
- Interest cost
- Expected return on plan assets
- Amortization of prior service cost
- Amortization of net loss or net gain
International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS): IFRS are a set of international accounting standards which are framed, approved, and published by International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) for the preparation and disclosure of international financial reports.
To compute: Net pension cost of S Properties for the year 2018, if the financial statements are prepared as per IFRS
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PBO balance, January 1
Plan assets balance, January 1
Service Cost
Interest cost
Gain from change in actuarial assumption
Benefits paid
Actual return on plan assets
Contributions 2021
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300
75
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60
The expected long-term rate of return on plan assets was 8%. There were no AOCI balances related to pensions on January 1, 2021,
but at the end of 2021, the company amended the pension formula, creating a prior service cost of $12 million.
Required:
1. Calculate the pension expense for 2021.
2. Prepare the journal entries to record (a) pension expense, (b) gains or losses, (c) prior service cost, (d) funding,
and (e) payment of benefits for 2021.
3. What amount will Electronic Distribution report in its 2021 balance sheet as a net pension asset or net pension liability?
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Chapter 17 Solutions
Intermediate Accounting
Ch. 17 - Prob. 17.1QCh. 17 - Prob. 17.2QCh. 17 - Prob. 17.3QCh. 17 - What is the vested benefit obligation?Ch. 17 - Prob. 17.5QCh. 17 - Prob. 17.6QCh. 17 - Name three events that might change the balance of...Ch. 17 - Prob. 17.8QCh. 17 - Prob. 17.9QCh. 17 - Prob. 17.10Q
Ch. 17 - The return on plan assets is the increase in plan...Ch. 17 - Define prior service cost. How is it reported in...Ch. 17 - Prob. 17.13QCh. 17 - Is a companys PBO reported in the balance sheet?...Ch. 17 - What two components of pension expense may be...Ch. 17 - Prob. 17.16QCh. 17 - Evaluate this statement: The excess of the actual...Ch. 17 - Prob. 17.18QCh. 17 - TFC Inc. revises its estimate of future salary...Ch. 17 - Prob. 17.20QCh. 17 - Prob. 17.21QCh. 17 - Prob. 17.22QCh. 17 - The components of postretirement benefit expense...Ch. 17 - The EPBO for Branch Industries at the end of 2018...Ch. 17 - Prob. 17.25QCh. 17 - Prob. 17.26QCh. 17 - Prob. 17.1BECh. 17 - Prob. 17.2BECh. 17 - Prob. 17.3BECh. 17 - Prob. 17.4BECh. 17 - Prob. 17.5BECh. 17 - Prob. 17.6BECh. 17 - Prob. 17.7BECh. 17 - Prob. 17.8BECh. 17 - Prob. 17.9BECh. 17 - Prob. 17.10BECh. 17 - Net gain LO176 The projected benefit obligation...Ch. 17 - Prob. 17.12BECh. 17 - Prob. 17.13BECh. 17 - Postretirement benefits; determine the APBO and...Ch. 17 - Prob. 17.15BECh. 17 - Prob. 17.1ECh. 17 - Prob. 17.2ECh. 17 - Prob. 17.3ECh. 17 - Prob. 17.4ECh. 17 - Prob. 17.5ECh. 17 - Prob. 17.6ECh. 17 - Prob. 17.7ECh. 17 - Prob. 17.8ECh. 17 - Prob. 17.9ECh. 17 - Prob. 17.10ECh. 17 - Prob. 17.11ECh. 17 - PBO calculations; ABO calculations; present value...Ch. 17 - Prob. 17.13ECh. 17 - Prob. 17.14ECh. 17 - Prob. 17.15ECh. 17 - Prob. 17.16ECh. 17 - Prob. 17.17ECh. 17 - Prob. 17.18ECh. 17 - Prob. 17.19ECh. 17 - Prob. 17.20ECh. 17 - Prob. 17.21ECh. 17 - Prob. 17.22ECh. 17 - Prob. 17.23ECh. 17 - Prob. 17.24ECh. 17 - Prob. 17.25ECh. 17 - Prob. 17.26ECh. 17 - Prob. 17.27ECh. 17 - Prob. 17.28ECh. 17 - Prob. 17.29ECh. 17 - Prob. 17.30ECh. 17 - Prob. 17.31ECh. 17 - Prob. 17.32ECh. 17 - Prob. 17.33ECh. 17 - Prob. 17.1PCh. 17 - PBO calculations; present value concepts LO173...Ch. 17 - Service cost, interest, and PBO calculations;...Ch. 17 - Prob. 17.4PCh. 17 - Prob. 17.5PCh. 17 - Prob. 17.6PCh. 17 - Determining the amortization of net gain LO176...Ch. 17 - Prob. 17.8PCh. 17 - Prob. 17.9PCh. 17 - Prob. 17.10PCh. 17 - Prob. 17.11PCh. 17 - Prob. 17.12PCh. 17 - Prob. 17.13PCh. 17 - Prob. 17.14PCh. 17 - Prob. 17.15PCh. 17 - Prob. 17.16PCh. 17 - Prob. 17.17PCh. 17 - Prob. 17.18PCh. 17 - Prob. 17.19PCh. 17 - Prob. 17.20PCh. 17 - Prob. 17.21PCh. 17 - Prob. 17.1BYPCh. 17 - Prob. 17.2BYPCh. 17 - Prob. 17.3BYPCh. 17 - Prob. 17.5BYPCh. 17 - Prob. 17.6BYPCh. 17 - Prob. 17.7BYPCh. 17 - Prob. 17.8BYPCh. 17 - Prob. 17.9BYPCh. 17 - Prob. 17.11BYPCh. 17 - Prob. 1CCTCCh. 17 - Prob. 1CCIFRS
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