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Clark Industries has a defined benefit pension plan that
specifies annual, year-end retirement benefits equal to:
1.2% × Service years × Final year’s salary
Stanley Mills was hired by Clark at the beginning of 2002. Mills is
expected to retire at the end of 2046 after 45 years of service.
His retirement is expected to span 15 years. At the end of 2021, 20
years after being hired, his salary is $97,000. The company’s
actuary projects Mills’s salary to be $440,000 at retirement. The
actuary’s discount rate is 6%. (FV of $1, PV of $1, FVA of $1, PVA
of $1, FVAD of $1 and PVAD of $1) (Use appropriate
factor(s) from the tables provided.)
Required:
1. Estimate the amount of Stanley Mills’s annual
retirement payments for the 15 retirement years earned as of the
end of 2021.
2. Suppose Clark’s pension plan permits a lump-sum
payment at retirement in lieu of annuity payments. Determine the
lump-sum equivalent as the present value as of the retirement date
of annuity payments during the retirement period.
3. What is the company’s projected benefit
obligation at the end of 2021 with respect to Stanley Mills?
4. Even though pension accounting centers on the
PBO calculation, the ABO still must be disclosed in the pension
disclosure note. What is the company’s accumulated benefit
obligation at the end of 2021 with respect to Stanley Mills?
5. If we assume no estimates change in the
meantime, what is the company’s projected benefit obligation at the
end of 2022 with respect to Stanley Mills?
6. What portion of the 2022 increase in the PBO is
attributable to 2022 service (the service cost component of pension
expense) and to accrued interest (the interest cost component of
pension expense)?
1. Annual Retirement Payments?
2. PV of retirement annuity?
3. Projected benefit obligation?
4. Accumulated benefit obligation?
5. Projected benefit obligation?
6. Interest Cost?
Service Cost?
Clark Industries
Requirement 1 Annual Retirement Payments
1.2% × Service years × Final year’s salary
1.2% × 20 × 440,000 = $105,600
Requirement 2 PV of retirement annuity
present value of the retirement benefits at the end of 2046:
105,600 × 9.7122 = 1,025,608
(PVIFA 15 YEARS @ 6%)
Requirement 3 Projected benefit obligation
PBO present value of the retirement benefits at the end of 2021
1,025,608 × 0.233 = 238,967
(PVIF 25 YEARS @ 6%)
Requirement 4 Accumulated benefit obligation
1.2% × 20 × 97,000 = 23,280
23,280 × 9.7122 = 226,100
226,100 × 0.233 = 52,681
(PVIFA 15 YEARS @ 6%) & (PVIF 25 YEARS @ 6%)
Requirement 5 Projected benefit obligation
1.2 % × 21 × 440,000 = 110,880
110,880 × 9.7122 = 1,076,889
1076889 × 0.24698 = 265,970
(PVIF 24 YARS @ 6%)
Requirement 6
PBO at the end of 2022 | 265,970 |
LESS:PBO at the end of 2021 | (238,967) |
change in PBO | 27,003 |
LESS: interest cost (238,967 * 6%) | (14,338) |
service cost | 12,665 |
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