A partially completed pension spreadsheet showing the relationships among the elements that constitute Carney, Inc., defined benefit pension plan follows. Six years earlier, Carney revised its pension formula and recalculated benefits earned by employees in prior years using the more generous formula. The prior service cost created by the recalculation is being amortized at the rate of $6 million per year. At the end of 2018, the pension formula was amended again, creating an additional prior service cost of $40 million. The expected rate of return on assets and the actuary’s discount rate were 10%, and the average remaining service life of the active employee group is 10 years.
 
Required:

1. Fill in the missing amounts.
2. to 4. Prepare all the necessary journal entries for 2018            

Fill in the missing amounts. (Enter your answers in millions (i.e., 10,000,000 should be entered as 10). Enter credit amounts with a minus sign and debit amounts with a positive sign.)

( )s indicate credits; debits otherwise

($ in millions)

PBO

Plan Assets

Prior Service Cost–AOCI

Net Loss-AOCI

Pension Expense

Cash

Net Pension (Liability) / Asset

Balance, Jan. 1, 2018

(970)

870

25

107

(100)

Service cost

98

Interest cost

Expected return on assets

Adjust for:

Loss on assets

(6)

Amortization of:

Prior service cost

Net loss

Loss on PBO

(27)

Prior service cost

Cash funding

92

Retiree benefits

Bal., Dec. 31, 2018

(970)

805

25

107

98

(35)

                                                                                                                                                                                                    

Prepare all the necessary journal entries for 2018. (If no entry is required for a transaction/event, select "No journal entry required" in the first account field. Enter your answers in millions (i.e., 10,000,000 should be entered as 10).)

 

Journal entry worksheet

Transaction Index :

 

Record pension expense.

Record any 2018 gains and losses.

Record new prior service cost in 2018.

Record the cash contribution to plan assets.

Record payment of retiree benefits.

Note: Enter debits before credits.

Event	General Journal	Debit	Credit
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