After completing this chapter you should be able to: Distinguish between accounting for the employer’s pension plan and accounting for the pension fund, identify types of pension plans and their characteristics, explain alternative measures for valuing the pension obligation, list the components of pension expense... and other contents.
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Alternative measures of liability
Recognition of net funded status Components of pension expense
Nature of
Pension Plans
Accounting for Pensions
Using a Pension Worksheet
Reporting Pension Plans in Financial Statements
Amortization of prior service cost
2011 entries and worksheet
Gain or loss
2012 entries and worksheet
Within the financial statements Within the notes
to the financial statements Pension note disclosure
2013 entries and worksheet—a comprehensive example
Special issues
Accounting for Pensions and Postretirement Benefits
Accounting for Pensions and Postretirement Benefits
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Accounting for Pensions
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Service Costs Interest on the Liability Actual Return on Plan Assets Amortization of Prior Service Costs
Gain or Loss
+ + +- + +-
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Pension Work Sheet
GENERAL JOURNAL ENTRIES MEMO RECORD
Prior Pension Projected
Items Expense Cash Costs (PSC) Gain/Loss Liability Obligation Assets
Other Comprehensive Income
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J our na l e nt r y 3 0 , 5 0 0 (2 0 , 0 0 0 ) (1 0 , 5 0 0 )
De c 3 1 , 2 0 1 0 (1 0 , 5 0 0 ) (3 1 8 , 0 0 0 ) 3 0 7 , 5 0 0
MEMO RECO RD GENERAL J O URNAL ENT RI ES
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Pe ns ion Pr oj e c t e d
Pe ns ion Ga in / A s s e t / Be ne f it Pla n
I t e ms Ex pe ns e Ca s h PS C Los s Lia b ilit y O b lig a t ion As s e t s
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Pension Expense 83,920 OCI PSC 103,000
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Question: What is the potential negative impact on Net Income of these unexpected swings?
Volatility
The profession decided to reduce the volatility with
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Answer
Recorded in Net Gain or Loss account Amortize amount in excess of corridor to pension expense, over the average
remaining service period of active employees expected to receive benefits under the plan.
Gains and Losses
Gains and Losses
Question: What happens to the difference between the expected return and the actual return?
LO 7 Explain the accounting for unexpected gains and losses.
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$3,100,000 and plan assets of $3,300,000 at January 1, 2010. Shin’s also had a net pension actuarial loss of $465,000 in accumulated OCI at
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Pe ns ion Pr oj e c t e d
Pe ns ion Ga in / As s e t / Be ne f it Pla n
I t e m s Ex pe ns e Ca s h PS C Los s Lia b ilit y O b lig a t ion A s s e t s
Ba l J a n 1 , 2 0 0 9 (5 0 , 0 0 0 ) (2 5 0 , 0 0 0 ) 2 0 0 , 0 0 0
S e r vic e c os t s 1 6 , 0 0 0 (1 6 , 0 0 0 )
I nt e r e s t 2 5 , 0 0 0 (2 5 , 0 0 0 )
Re t ur n on a s s e t s (1 8 , 0 0 0 ) 1 8 , 0 0 0 Une x pe c t e d los s (2 , 0 0 0 ) 2 , 0 0 0
LO 8 Explain the corridor approach to amortizing gains and losses.
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LO 8 Explain the corridor approach to amortizing gains and losses.
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Within the Financial Statements
Pension expense Pension Asset / Liability Components of Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income
Reporting Pension Plans in Financial Statements
Reporting Pension Plans in Financial Statements
LO 9 Describe the requirements for reporting pension plans
in financial statements.
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LO 9 Describe the requirements for reporting pension plans
in financial statements.
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LO 9 Describe the requirements for reporting pension plans
in financial statements.
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Special Issues
The Pension Reform Act of 1974 Pension Terminations
Reporting Pension Plans in Financial Statements
Reporting Pension Plans in Financial Statements
LO 9 Describe the requirements for reporting pension plans
in financial statements.
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Another difference in definedbenefit recognition is that under iGAAP companies have the
choice of recognizing actuarial gains and losses in income immediately or amortizing them over the expected remaining working lives of employees. U.S. GAAP does not permit choice.
The IASB has recently issued a discussion paper on pensions proposing: (1) elimination of
smoothing via the corridor approach, (2) a different presentation of pension costs in the income statement, and (3) a new category of pensions for accounting purposes—socalled
“contributionbased promises.”
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Accounting Guidance
In December 1990, the FASB issued rules on “Employers’ Accounting for Postretirement Benefits Other Than Pensions.” These rules cover for
healthcare and other “welfare benefits” provided to retirees, their spouses, dependents, and beneficiaries.
Other welfare benefits include life insurance offered outside a pension plan; medical, dental, and eye care; legal and tax services; tuition assistance; day care; and housing assistance.
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rendered to a particular date.
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on January 1, 2010, Quest Company adopts a healthcare benefit plan. The following facts apply to the postretirement benefits plan for the year 2010.
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