Flounder Company received the following selected information from its pension plan trustee concerning the operation of the company’s defined benefit pension plan for the year ended December 31, 2017.

January 1, 2017

December 31, 2017

Projected benefit obligation

$1,517,000

$1,545,000

Market-related and fair value of plan assets

784,000

1,107,400

Accumulated benefit obligation

1,568,000

1,689,300

Accumulated OCI (G/L)—Net gain

0

(201,700)

The service cost component of pension expense for employee services rendered in the current year amounted to $78,000 and the amortization of prior service cost was $121,300. The company’s actual funding (contributions) of the plan in 2017 amounted to $245,000. The expected return on plan assets and the actual rate were both 10%; the interest/discount (settlement) rate was 10%. Accumulated other comprehensive income (PSC) had a balance of $1,213,000 on January 1, 2017. Assume no benefits paid in 2017.

Determine the amounts of the components of pension expense that should be recognized by the company in 2017. (Enter amounts that reduce pension expense with either a negative sign preceding the number e.g. -45 or parenthesis e.g. (45).)

Components of Pension Expense

$

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Prepare the journal entry to record pension expense and the employer’s contribution to the pension plan in 2017. (Credit account titles are automatically indented when amount is entered. Do not indent manually. If no entry is required, select “No Entry” for the account titles and enter 0 for the amounts.)

Account Titles and Explanation

Debit

Credit

(To record pension expense and employer’s contribution)

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Indicate the pension-related amounts that would be reported on the income statement and the balance sheet for Flounder Company for the year 2017.

Flounder Company

Income Statement (Partial)

$

Flounder Company

Comprehensive Income Statement

$XXXX

$

$XXXX

Flounder Company

Balance Sheet (Partial)

$

$

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One of the most important components of a well designed training program is evaluation. It is necessary to evaluate a training program in order to determine whether or not the training was effective in meeting the goals of the training program. Without an evaluation the effectiveness of the program can not be determined. Before a training program can be evaluated, however, the goals and criteria for the program has to be established. Training criteria are generally classified into two categories: training-level criteria and performance -level criteria. Training level criteria is concerned with the what the employee/person actually learns from the training while performance-level criteria is concerned with the transfer of what is learned during training to one’s job performance (Spector, 2012). Both criteria is important in determining the effectiveness of a training program because each evaluate a particular aspect of the training program: whether or not the training program has the intended effect on meeting learning objectives and affecting job performance.

You have just been assigned to evaluate your current or past organization’s training program. How would you best evaluate the effectiveness of the training? Explain the program and your reasoning