Concepts for Analysis and Presentation

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CA20-5 WRITING (Implications of GAAP Rules on Pensions) Jill Vogel and Pete Dell have to do a class presentation on GAAP rules for reporting pension information. In developing the class presentation, they decided to provide the class with a series of questions related to pensions and then discuss the answers in class. Given that the class has all read the rules related to pension accounting and reporting, they felt this approach would provide a lively discussion. Here are the questions:

1.In an article in Businessweek prior to new rules related to pensions, it was reported that the discount rates used by the largest 200 companies for pension reporting ranged from 5% to 11%. How can such a situation exist, and does GAAP alleviate this problem?

2.An article indicated that when new GAAP rules were issued related to pensions, it caused an increase in the liability for pensions for approximately 20% of companies. Why might this situation occur?

3.A recent article noted that while “smoothing” is not necessarily an accounting virtue, pension accounting has long been recognized as an exception—an area of accounting in which at least some dampening of market swings is appropriate. This is because pension funds are managed so that their performance is insulated from the extremes of short-term market swings. A pension expense that reflects the volatility of market swings might, for that reason, convey information of little relevance. Are these statements true?

4.Understanding the impact of the changes required in pension reporting requires detailed information about its pension plan(s) and an analysis of the relationship of many factors, particularly the:

(a)Type of plan(s) and any significant amendments.

(b)Plan participants.

(c)Funding status.

(d)Actuarial funding method and assumptions currently used.

What impact does each of these items have on financial statement presentation?

5.An article noted “You also need to decide whether to amortize gains and losses using the corridor method, or to use some other systematic method. Under the corridor approach, only gains and losses in excess of 10% of the greater of the projected benefit obligation or the plan assets would have to be amortized.” What is the corridor method and what is its purpose?

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What answers do you believe Jill and Pete gave to each of these questions?


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Discuss, as a team, the major concepts you learned throughout this course.

Create a 3 -slide presentation.

Assume your audience is a student who has not taken this class.

Summarize and explain the main concepts from each week.

(INTERMEDIATE ACCOUNTING)

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IMPLICATIONS OF GAAP RULES ON
PENSIONS
•The possible reason behind the different discount rates offered by
most companies appears as a result of the diverse assumptions that
such firms may use when using both accrual and cost based
recording methods and the implicit or explicit assumptions
approaches i...


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