Would you please take the time to answer the following question?

BCE Inc.'s accounting policy note and its note disclosures relating to the company's pension and other post-employment benefits for the year ended December 31, 2017 are set out in the chapter.

Instructions

Review the disclosures from BCE's 2017 financial statements through SEDAR (www.sedar.com) or the BCE website and answer the following questions

a.What was the expected return on the pension plan assets in 2017? Asset actuarial gain in 2017? What was the actual return on the plan assets for the year?

Expected return on plan assets$ ??

Asset actuarial gain ??

Actual return on plan assets??

b.What amount of expense did the company report for its post-employment benefit plans?Estimate the amount of expense that would have been reported under ASPE for 2017. Comment on any differences.