Shining Light Corporation provides a defined contribution pension plan for its employees. The plan requires the company to deduct 5% of each employee's gross pay for each payroll period as the employee contribution. The company then contributes 7% of the gross pay for the employer contribution. Both amounts are remitted to the pension trustee within 10 days of the end of each month for the previous month's payrolls. At November 30, 2020, Shining Light Corporation reported $29,300 of combined withheld and matched contributions owing to the trustee. During December, Shining Light reported gross salaries and wages expense of $276,100.

Required

1. Prepare the entry to record the December payment to the plan trustee.
2. What amount of pension expense will the company report for December 2020?
3. Determine the appropriate pension account and its balance to be reported on the December 31, 2020 SFP assuming all prior months' remittances were made as required.

Complete the following table by indicating whether the following events increase (I), decrease (D), or have no effect (NE) on the employer's defined benefit obligation, the pension plan assets, the pension plan's surplus, the pension expense, and the remeasurement gain—OCI. 

Assume that the company applies IFRS and has a significant plan surplus and current period remeasurement gain prior to the following events in the current year:

 

	Defined Benefit Obligation	Pension Plan Assets	Plan Surplus	Pension Expense	Remeasur-ement Gain (OCI)
Example: Current service cost	I	NE	D	I	NE
Actual return on plan assets is > expected based on DBO discount rate (assess only the impact of the difference between the actual return and the expected return here)
Return on plan assets at the interest/discount rate
Past service costs due to plan revision
Liability actuarial gain