Employee Benefit Obligations are to be valued based on G-Sec rate of estimated term(expected future service/ expected future life time) as prevalent at the end of the reporting period.
10 Years G.Sec. Yield was 7.56% as on 31st March 2018 and is 8.14% as on 29thJune 2018,resulting in an increase in the yield of 0.58%.
CPI Index:
Oct 2017 – Sept 2017 0.70 % Oct 2017 - Oct 2016 3.24 %
Jan 2018 – Dec 2017 0.70% Jan 2018 - Jan 2017 5.11%
The yearly CPI has increased from 3.24% in October 2017 to 5.11% in January 2018 to 12months high to level. In April 2018 inflation has been reduced to 3.97%.
Impact of change in assumption is recognised in Profit & Loss in case of AS 15, whereas in case of Ind AS 19 it is recognised though OCI.
As Discount rate has increased it will result into decrease in liability and Actuarial Gain due to change in financial assumptions.
Comments
Increase in G- Sec yield will decrease the Actuarial liability.
In case Ind AS valuation is taken by company, Income in OCI due to the change in discount rate assumption can be estimated from Sensitivity of Obligation as disclosed at March 2018 under Ind AS 19.
If a correlation in the assumptions are to be considered, one must take a re-look at the future salary escalation and if the Net gap remains same, there may not be much change in the liability. One must discuss this correlation with actuaries so as to have correlated assumptions.
There is also a possibility of the fair value of the Plan Assets going down due to the increase in the yield resulting in the higher provision requirements for funded plans which are linked to market movement.
Over the last couple of years, G-Sec rate is very volatile and decreased to significantly low rate in past, this had resulted into Actuarial Loss on Obligation in previous periods particularly in 2016-17. In 2017-18 G-Sec started increasing resulted into Actuarial Gain due to Financial Assumption. In this period, since discount rate has increased further significantly, it will lead to Actuarial Gain on Obligation due to change in financial assumption.
In case of Ind AS this volatility is passed through OCI for Post-Employment Benefit plans so Profit and Loss account remain consistent.
Discount rate is taken based on G-Sec rate of estimated term of obligation, as G-Sec rates vary a lot across various term of bonds. Estimated term of obligation is calculated by actuarial techniques applying probability of Attrition and death rate. So it is suggested to review Attrition rate assumption based on actual past experience of company.
G-Sec Yield: (www.fimmda.org with prices/yields published by FBIL) (Per Annum yield)
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