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 letter "D": Is useful in comparing earnings performance for the same company over time.
Explanation:
Earnings Per Share or EPS is a measure of the income of one given company. EPS is determined by subtracting dividends from the company's profit and dividing the amount by the number of outstanding shares. Higher EPS are convenient for institutions since it implies the revenue is being higher which is likely to attract more investors.
Answer:
the interest rate is missing, so I looked for similar questions and found that the semiannual interest rate is 3%.
first of all, we must determine the amount of money that we need to have in our account in order to be able to withdraw $25,000 in 10 years.
You will start making your semiannual deposits today and they will end in exactly 2 years, so we need to find out the present value of the $25,000 in two years:
PV = $25,000 / (1 + 3%)¹⁶ = $15,579.17
that is now the future value of our annuity due:
FV = semiannual deposit x FV annuity due factor (3%, 5 periods)
$15,579.17 = semiannual deposit x 5.46841
semiannual deposit = $15,579.17 / 5.46841 = $2,848.94
Answer:
The correct answer is Increase in accounts payable and unearned fees.
Explanation:
An account payable consists of a debt incurred by the company directly related to the economic activity of the company. An account payable is a debtor account in a company and indicates that it has to pay its suppliers (or other creditors).
The amounts that are accounted for as accounts payable come from the purchase of goods or services in terms of credit. So, accounts payable are similar to credits with the difference that banks are not involved.
