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To record health care expense, health care
funding,
and the change in balance sheet
accounts relating
to
the health care plan
for
2013.
12.31 (Treadaway, Inc.; interpreting retirement plan disclosures.)
(amounts in millions of US$)
a. Pension plans measure the amount of interest cost using
the present value of the pension obligation and the related
discount rate. Pension plans measure the amount of the
expected return on plan assets using the fair value of the
pension assets and the assumed rate of return on
investments. For Treadaway, the expected rate of return
on investments exceeds the discount rate but the pension
obligation exceeds pension assets. The amounts for
interest cost and expected return on investments are a
mixture of these four factors. The higher pension
obligation exceeds the lower discount rate for 2011 and
2012 and results in interest cost exceeding the expected
return on investments. The net efect of these four factors
results in equal amounts for interest cost and expected
return on investments for 2013, and is simply a
coincidence.
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b. The decline in net health care expense results from
a decline in interest cost, likely the result of
decreases in the health care obligation that more than
ofset the efects of increases in the discount rate.
c. Treadaway contributes suficient cash each year to
fund current benefits but no excess contributions to invest
in assets.
d. Treadaway increased the discount rate it uses to compute
the pension obligation and health care obligation from
5.5% in 2012 to 5.75% in
2013. The increased discount rate reduces the obligations
and results
in an actuarial gain. In addition, Treadaway decreased the
initial health care cost trend rate from 11.5% in 2012 to
11.2% in 2013, which reduces the health care obligation
and results in an actuarial gain.
e. Prior Service Cost, End of 2012
………………………………………….$
314
Plus Increase in Prior Service Cost During 2013
from Plan