Question: (Postretirement Benefit Worksheet) Hollenbeck Foods Inc. sponsors a postretirement medical and dental benefit plan for its employees. The following balances relate to this plan on January 1, 2014.
As a result of the plan's operation during 2014, the following additional data are provided by the actuary.
Instructions: (a) Using the preceding data, compute the net periodic postretirement benefit cost for 2014 by preparing a worksheet that shows the journal entry for postretirement expense and the year-end balances in the related postretirement benefit memo accounts. (Assume that contributions and benefits are paid at the end of the year.)
(b) Prepare any journal entries related to the postretirement plan for 2014 and indicate the postretirement amounts reported in the financial statements for 2014.