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).)
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