1. Actually "underlying Economic pension expense", "Reported Economic Pension Expense" are the same as "Economic Pension Expense"
2. Why analyst needs to calculate the Economic pension expense instead of the Reported Pension Expense shown in the Income Statement is to eliminate the smoothing effect under Reported Pension Expense.
3. The quickest way to come up with the Economic Pension Expense is to
*****Change in the Funded Status minus Employer's contribution OR if not giving you the employer's contribution or funded status in the exam
------Change in PBO, excluding benefits paid and then minus ACTUAL return on assets.
Hope this helps作者: Carson 时间: 2016-4-18 20:51
thank you indeed, maybe i mustn't be too serious about various kind of definition of economics expenses.