Exercise 17-19 (Algo) Record pension expense, funding, and gains and losses; determine account balances [LO17-6, 17-7, 17-8]

Beale Management has a noncontributory, defined benefit pension plan. On December 31, 2021 (the end of Beale's fiscal year), the following pension-related data were available:

Projected Benefit Obligation	($ in millions)
Balance, January 1, 2021		$	780
Service cost			80
Interest cost, discount rate, 5%			39
Gain due to changes in actuarial assumptions in 2021			(23	)
Pension benefits paid			(39	)
Balance, December 31, 2021		$	837

Plan Assets	($ in millions)
Balance, January 1, 2021		$	800
Actual return on plan assets			49
(Expected return on plan assets, $54)
Cash contributions			90
Pension benefits paid			(39	)
Balance, December 31, 2021		$	900

January 1, 2021, balances:	($ in millions)
Pension asset	$	20
Prior service costAOCI (amortization $9 per year)		45
Net gainAOCI (any amortization over 10 years)		120

Required: 1. to 3. Prepare the 2021 journal entries to record pension expense, to record any 2021 gains and losses and the contribution to plan assets and benefit payments to retirees. 4. Determine the balances at December 31, 2021, in the PBO, plan assets, the net gainAOCI, and prior service costAOCI [Hint: You might find T-accounts useful.] 5. What amount will Beale report in its 2021 balance sheet as a net pension asset or net pension liability for the funded status of the plan?

Record the pension expense.

2

Record the gain on PBO.

3

Record the loss on plan assets.

4

Record the funding of plan assets.

5

Record the payment of benefits.

Determine the balances at December 31, 2021, in the PBO, plan assets, the net gainAOCI, and prior service costAOCI [Hint: You might find T-accounts useful.]. (Enter your answers in millions. (i.e., 10,000,000 should be entered as 10).)

Balances on Dec. 31, 2021
($ in millions)
PBO
Plan assets
Net gain - AOCI
Prior service cost - AOCI

What amount will Beale report in its 2021 balance sheet as a net pension asset or net pension liability for the funded status of the plan? (Enter your answers in millions. (i.e., 10,000,000 should be entered as 10).)

Balance Sheet as of 2021
		million