NO.PZ202206210200000104
问题如下:
How should Miller most likely respond to Browne’s question about Tucker’s anticipated pension surplus asset?
选项:
A.The value of the surplus is likely overstated.
B.US accounting rules do not permit a sponsor to claim a pension surplus on the balance sheet.
C.There do not appear to be any problems with the value or anticipated accounting treatment of the surplus.
解释:
SolutionA is correct. The pension plan is incorrectly using a discount rate based on the returns to its current asset allocation, which includes small-cap equity, private equity, and illiquid real estate investments. These returns are historically much higher than the returns to high-grade bond yields averaged over the last 25 years, which is the maximum discount rate permitted in the United States. Therefore, the value of liabilities is being calculated with a higher-than-allowed discount rate and has likely been understated. This means the value of the surplus is likely overstated.
B is incorrect. US GAAP not only permits but requires firms to report the value of the overfunded or underfunded pension plan on the balance sheet as an asset or a liability, respectively.
C is incorrect. The value of the surplus is likely overstated because the discount rate being used to calculate the value of plan liabilities is too high.
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