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In each of the following scenarios, prepare journal entries, as necessary, or give proper accounting recognition. For each, tell why you made an entry or accounting recognition or why you did not.
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Big City provides a defined benefit pension plan for employees of the city water department, an enterprise fund. Assume that the service cost component is $420,000, and interest on the pension liability is $380,000 for the year. Actual returns on plan assets for the year were $300,000, while the projected level of earnings on plan investments was $360,000. This difference is to be amortized over a five-year period, beginning this year. Finally, assume the City is amortizing a deferred inflow resulting from a change in plan assumptions from a prior year in the amount of $10,000 per year.
Pensions or any Post-employment benefit plans is the amount payable by any company at the end of service of the employee. This amount is paid for all the period employee has worked for our company, and hence this expense evenly belongs to whole service period and not just for the year of payment. Thus, the company needs to account for the said expense throughout the service life of the employee.
Calculation of Pension Expense:
Particulars | Amount($) |
Service Cost | 420000 |
Add: Interest Costs | 380000 |
Add: Prior Service Cost Amortisation | |
Less: Return on Plan Asset | -300000 |
Less: Deferred Loss from plan asset (360000-300000) | -60000 |
Amortisation of excess deferred loss (CY) | 12000 |
Amortisation of excess deferred loss (PY) | 10000 |
Net Pension Expense | 462000 |
Journal Entries:
SR. No. | General Journal | Debit | Credit |
1 | Net Pension Expense | 500000 | |
Pension Liability | 500000 | ||
Service Cost + Interest Cost - Return(actual) on plan Assets | |||
2 | Amortization of amount lying in Accumulated OCI | ||
Net Pension Expense | 22000 | ||
Accumulated OCI | 22000 | ||
3 | Difference between Actual and expected return | ||
Accumulated OCI | 60000 | ||
Net Pension Expense | 60000 |