. A partially completed pension spreadsheet showing the relationships among the elements that constitute Carney, Inc.’s defined...

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. A partially completed pension spreadsheet showing therelationships among the elements that constitute Carney, Inc.’sdefined benefit pension plan follows. At theend of 2018, Carney revised its pensionformula and incurred a prior service cost of $100 million. At theend of 2019, the pension formula wasamended again, creating an additional prior service cost of $200million. At the beginning of 2020, $400million prior service cost was incurred. At thebeginning of 2021, $300 million priorservice cost was incurred. In 2018 - 2021, the actuary’s discountrate remained 10%, and the average remaining service life of theactive employee group remained 10 years. The expected rate ofreturn on assets was 10% in 2019, and increased by 1% eachyear.

  1. Fill in blanks in the 2019 pension spreadsheet.

2019 Pension spreadsheet ($ in millions)

(PBO)

Plan Assets

Prior Service Cost–AOCI

Net Loss (Gain) –AOCI

Pension Expense

Cash

Net Pension (Liability) / Asset

Balance, Jan. 1, 2019

(25,000)

20,000

100

4,500

(5,000)

Service cost

(800)

Interest cost

Prior Service Cost

Expected return on assets

Adjust for: Gain (loss) on assets

Amortization of: "Prior service cost-AOCI"

Amortization of: "Net Loss (Gain)-AOCI"

Gain (Loss) on PBO

7000

Cash funding

(1,000)

Retiree benefits

950

Bal., Dec. 31, 2019

22,450

290

(3,100)

1,510

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