Session 9: Financial Reporting and Analysis: Inventories, Long-lived Assets, Income Taxes, and Non-current Liabilities Reading 39: Non-current (Long-term) Liabilities
LOS k: Compare and contrast the presentation and disclosure of defined contribution and defined benefit pension plans.
An employer offers a defined benefit pension plan and a defined contribution pension plan. The employer’s balance sheet is most likely to present an asset or liability related to:
A) |
the defined benefit plan. | |
B) |
both of these pension plans. | |
C) |
the defined contribution plan. | |
Only a defined benefit plan has a funded status that would appear on the balance sheet as an asset or liability. Employer payments into a defined contribution plan are recognized as expenses in the period incurred. |