Pensions
accounting
Pensions & benefits
Market volatility, increasing audit pressures, and a growing gap between the accounting and funding yardsticks have all made managing pensions accounting figures much harder for CFOs, Financial Controllers and Company Treasurers.
We work with you and your finance team to ensure that your ongoing statutory duties and compliance exercises are done quickly, efficiently and accurately so you can focus your time and resources on the things that will benefit your business the most.
Accounting for Pensions: the cost of prudence to UK plc
Thought leadership report
This landmark edition highlights a turbulent year like no other (again), with the aftermath of the Covid pandemic, the fallout from the LDI crisis, and sharp rise in gilt yields all having significant and long-lasting impacts on pension schemes.
Explore the reportHow we can help
- We help our clients understand and take decisions on the range of assumptions, where these sit relative to the wider market and key competitors, and the corresponding impact on balance sheets and P&L
- We work with finance teams ahead of the year-end to ensure there are no surprises and to pre-empt what auditors will wish to see
- We calculate and consolidate all the required figures under each accounting standard, and provide an efficient, hassle-free, value-added approach to your accounting processes
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What measures of pension scheme surplus does a CFO need to know?
In this blog, Helen Draper, discusses the shifts in market conditions and how increased pension scheme funding have dramatically improved the financial position of the average UK pension scheme.
Pensions accounting in context - No alarms and no surprises please
Watch our on-demand pensions accounting webinar, supporting you to develop a clear plan to manage your pension accounting figures and ensure a smooth surprise-free year end.
How we can help
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Contingent funding approaches are rapidly becoming more widespread. They can be a great way to protect member benefits as well as the shareholders and other creditors of the sponsoring employer.
We help sponsors of pension schemes understand and manage the costs and risks associated with supporting their current and legacy pension schemes as well as other employee benefits.
Whether to enter a DB Consolidator is a complex decision. Sponsors and Trustees must be sure it is the right decision for their scheme and its members. We can help.
We help companies effectively manage their retirement plans across the world, including local defined benefit and defined contribution arrangements as well as global plans for expatriates.
Liability management exercises can be an effective way for pension scheme sponsors to manage costs and risks, whilst also providing valuable options and information to pension scheme members.
We provide expert practical advice on the pensions issues involved when buying or selling businesses.