NO.PZ2018111303000046
问题如下:
Snow Creek Village West offers its employees a defined benefit pension plan and stock option, Snow Creek Village West complies with US GAAP.
The information on the following table:
Compared to the assumptions Snow used to calculate its periodic pension cost in 2017, earnings in 2018 were higher by the change in the:
选项:
A. discount rate
B. Estimated future salary increases
C. Expected long-term rate of return on plan assets
解释:
B is correct.
考点:养老金的假设
解析:这一题问的是下列哪项变化会使2018年的NI增加
首先,明确2018年的这三个假设的数值都小于2017年的假设。
A选项:lower discount rate,会导致PBO变大,导致interest cost增加,NI降低。(因为pension的maturity通常是很久的,可以类似于债券的duration,此时PBO增长比discount rate减少对interest cost的影响更大)
B选项:Lower estimated salary increases ,预期工资增长率变低,那么final salary就变低,公司未来要打给员工的退休金就会变少,因为退休金一般是基于final salary计算出来的。未来养老金支出减少,当前PBO就会减少,对应的interest expense和current service cost都会下降,所以NI上升。
C选项Expected long-term rate of return on plan assets的降低,也就是E(R)降低,美国准则下损益表中的expected return用E(R)计算,E(R)降低则expected return减少,NI会降低。
因此,选项B正确,只有该项变化对NI是有利影响,其他都是不利影响。
对于a答案解释理解一半,但题目并没有说discount rate只变大不变小