Answer:
Credit to the PBO for $13,500
Explanation:
Defined benefit pension plan is a pension structure adopted by a company in which an employee is guaranteed payments in the future for example after retirement. Since the payments are given far into the future, complex calculations are required to compute how to account for annual expenses and changes in pension obligation.
Now, under the above plan, the amount of the future benefits that will be paid for by the company depends on a multitude of factors such length of time served, an employee lifespan. The annual expense needs to match the recognition of the related expense in the period in which the particular employee renders the service for which they will be paid in the future.
So, the formula for Periodic (Annual) Pension Expense is Interest Costs (Interest incurred on the beginning Projected Benefit Obligation) + Service Costs (Present Value of the projected retirement benefits earned in the current period) - Actual Return on Plan Assets (the returns provided by the assets held under the Company's pension plan) + Amortization of Prior Service Costs (changes to pension expense as a retroactive amendments to the pension plan) +/- Amortization of Actuarial Gains or Losses (the change in the PBO as a result of changes in assumptions used to calculate the PBO).
The question provides us with the interest costs, the services costs, and the expected return on plan assets with other costs being nil.
Therefore, annual pension expense is Service Costs + Interest Costs - Expected Return on Plan Assets = 18,500 + 5,500 - 10,500 = 13,500.
The journal entry is a credit to the PBO of the amount of the expense and a debit to the Pension Expense. Note that the difference between ending PBO and beginning PBO is NOT equivalent to annual expense since other items such as company's contribution and changes in fair value of the liability also impact the PBO.
Answer:
The correct answer is B.
Explanation:
Giving the following information:
In April 2013, Sparkle Enterprises purchased the Crimson Mine for $18,000,000. The mine is estimated to contain 500,000 tons of ore with a residual value of $2,000,000 after mining operations are completed. During 2013, 120,000 tons of ore were removed from the mine and sold.
Annual depreciation= [(original cost - salvage value)/useful life of production in units]*units produced
Annual depreciation= (16,000,000/500,000)*120,000= $3,840,000
Answer:
The rationale for conducting active policy is the interest of Congress to alter the state of the economy through a deliberate change in established policies.
But in the case of Passive policy, the government permits the status quo.
Active policy relies on the government to enforce it while passive policy does not need the government's interference to work in stabilizing the economy.
Explanation:
The following statements applies passive policy because the economy is expected to stabilize on it's own without the deliberate act of congress influencing it:
- Economic circumstances can change dramatically between the time that an economic downturn begins and the time when policy actions have an effect on the economy.
- Fluctuations in economic output have been less severe since World War II.
The following statements is a rationale for conducting active policy since the government's intervention is required:
- Economists are not very accurate forecasters.
- Increases in government spending generate increases in economic output.
