Question: Beale Management has a noncontributory, defined benefit pension plan. On December 31, 2016 (the end of Beale's fiscal year), the following pension-related data were available:
| Beale Management has a noncontributory, defined benefit pension plan. On December 31, 2016 (the end of Beale's fiscal year), the following pension-related data were available: |
| Projected Benefit Obligation | ($ in millions) | ||
| Balance, January 1, 2016 | $ | 700 | |
| Service cost | 72 | ||
| Interest cost, discount rate, 5% | 35 | ||
| Gain due to changes in actuarial assumptions in 2016 | (19 | ) | |
| Pension benefits paid | (35 | ) | |
| Balance, December 31, 2016 | $ | 753 | |
| Plan Assets | ($ in millions) | ||
| Balance, January 1, 2016 | $ | 720 | |
| Actual return on plan assets | 45 | ||
| (Expected return on plan assets, $50) | |||
| Cash contributions | 86 | ||
| Pension benefits paid | (35 | ) | |
| Balance, December 31, 2016 | $ | 816 | |
| January 1, 2016, balances: | ($ in millions) | ||
| Pension asset | $ | 20 | |
| Prior service costAOCI (amortization $7 per year) | 35 | ||
| Net gainAOCI (any amortization over 10 years) | 112 | ||
| (For all requirements, enter your answers in millions. (i.e., 10,000,000 should be entered as 10).) |
| Required: |
| 1. to 3. | Prepare the 2016 journal entry to record pension expense, to record any 2016 gains and losses and the contribution to plan assets and benefit payments to retirees. (If no entry is required for a transaction/event, select "No journal entry required" in the first account field.)
1.Record the pension expense. 2. Record the gain on PBO. 3.Record the loss on assets. 4. Record the change in plan assets. 5. Record the change in the PBO.
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