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发表于 2013-4-3 23:20
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I remember Schweser having a good explanation in Italic about this which was helpful.
Under IFRS, the one line item on the BS is Net Pension Asset (liability). This is NOT the Funded Status (true economic position of the plan). Net Pension Asset (liability) is a smoothed version of the funded status, adjusted for unrecognized things that did not hit the Income Statement yet.
For example, an unrecognized past service expense that didn’t hit the IS yet, is already reflected in the Funded Status (remember, true economic position, nothing hidden), but IFRS wants us to also smooth the results by the net pension asset (liability) on the BS. So, we have to add back the unrecognized expense….
In short, we end up adjusting Funded Status by adding unrecognized expenses and subtracting unrecognized gains to get to net pension asset. |
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