Intermediate Accounting: Reporting And Analysis
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Author: James M. Wahlen, Jefferson P. Jones, Donald Pagach
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Based upon this information, how would I make the following journal entries?
Record annual pension expense.
Record the change in plan assets.
Record the change in the PBO.
Record the cash contribution to plan assets.
Record the retiree benefits paid.
A pension plan paid out benefits amounting to $343,200 during the year to retired plan members. The entry reflected in a pension fund work sheet should show
Select one:
a.
DEBIT-Plan Assets; CREDIT-Cash.
b.
DEBIT-Plan Expenses; CREDIT-Cash.
c.
DEBIT-Plan Expenses; CREDIT-Plan Assets.
d.
DEBIT-Defined Benefit Obligation; CREDIT-Cash.
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None of the above.
A company using IFRS has the following information: Defined benefit obligation at beginning of year $12, 790;
current service cost $570; actual return on pension assets $149; contributions made during the year $1, 030;
Discount rate used on obligation 6%; payments made to pensioners during the year $135. What is the closing
balance for the defined pension obligation?
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