Question

Electronic Distribution has a defined benefit pension plan. Characteristics of the plan during 2021 are as follows:

	($ millions)
PBO balance, January 1		$	460
Plan assets balance, January 1			250
Service cost			65
Interest cost			35
Gain from change in actuarial assumption			22
Benefits paid			(32	)
Actual return on plan assets			22
Contributions 2021			55

The expected long-term rate of return on plan assets was 10%. There were no AOCI balances related to pensions on January 1, 2021, but at the end of 2021, the company amended the pension formula, creating a prior service cost of $11 million. (Enter your answers in millions (i.e., 10,000,000 should be entered as 10).)

Required:

1. Calculate the pension expense for 2021.
2. Prepare the journal entries to record (a) pension expense, (b) gains or losses, (c) prior service cost, (d) funding, and (e) payment of benefits for 2021.
3. What amount will Electronic Distribution report in its 2021 balance sheet as a net pension asset or net pension liability?

Answer 1