Refer to the financial statements and related disclosure notes of PetSmart Inc. in Appendix B located at the back of the text. www.petsmart.com.

Required:

1. What type of pension plan does PetSmart sponsor for its employees? Explain.

2. Who bears the "risk" of factors that might reduce retirement benefits in this type of plan? Explain.

3. Assuming that employee and employer contributions vest immediately, suppose a PetSmart employee con-tributes $1,000 to the pension plan during her first year of employment and directs investments to a municipal bond mutual fund. If she leaves PetSmart early in her second year, after the mutual fund's value has increased by 2%, how much will she be entitled to roll over into an Individual Retirement Account (IRA)?

4. How did PetSmart account for its participation in the pension plan in fiscal 2013?