Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read the S&P 500’s Biggest Pension Plans Face $382 Billion Funding Gap article. For this assignment, you will analyze and interpret the impact of a firm’s defined benefit plan on its financial reports. The company that needs to be evaluated will be Procter & Gamble. Obtain the 10-K reports for this company for the last three years. In your paper, Determine whether your company complies with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) or International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in its financial reporting.Determine if the pension plan(s) is (are) part of a multi-employer plan or if the pension plans are single employer plans.Describe the components of the company’s defined benefit costs.Illustrate the trend in these costs over the latest 3 years.Critique the cash flow impact of the pension plan in each of the last 3 years.Identify the assumptions used each year for the calculations of pension plan obligations and expense amounts.Note any changes in assumptions over the 3-year period.Analyze the impact these changes have had on the reporting of the pension plan obligations (e.g, periodic cost, net pension liability, etc.)Determine if the assumptions used each year are internally consistent.Determine if the expected rate of return on plan assets is reasonable, given the stated targeted asset allocation of the plan.Compare the most recent net underfunded pension liability to your company’s current market equity and total debt.Justify whether the amount of the net underfunded pension liability is reasonable based on this comparison.Estimate the amount of annual cash flow the company would have to contribute to the plan if the company wanted to fully fund the plan by the end of 15 years.Compare this amount to the company’s operating cash flow and capital expenditures from each of the past 3 years.Explain the role of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC).Predict the impact the failure of this pension plan would have on the PBGC as well as the participants in the plan. The Defined Benefit Plans paper Must be three to four double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style. Within these three to four pages, provide data tables and calculations. These tables and calculations should be approximately 10% to 20% of the total work product.Must utilize academic voice. Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.Must use at least two scholarly, peer-reviewed, or credible sources in addition to the course text.

Please answer both questions in the attached document. Focus is on International Trade.