Financial Statements 2016 | Page 104

Reconciliation of opening and closing provisions Provision at start of period Unwinding of the discount factor (interest expense) Deficit contribution paid Remeasurements - impact of any change in assumptions Remeasurements - amendments to the contribution schedule 31 March ‘16 31 March ‘15 £000 £000 1,450 17 (95) (9) - 945 27 (92) 48 522 Provision at end of period 1,363 1,450 Income and expenditure impact Interest expense 17 27 Remeasurements – impact of any change in assumptions (9) 48 Remeasurements – amendments to the contribution schedule - 522 Costs recognised in income and expenditure account 8 597 Assumptions Rate of discount 31 March ‘16 % per annum 31 March ‘15 % per annum 31 March ‘14 % per annum 2.06 1.92 3.02 The discount rates shown above are the equivalent single discount rates which, when used to discount the future recovery plan contributions due, would give the same results as using a full AA corporate bond yield curve to discount the same recovery plan contributions. The following schedule details the deficit contributions agreed between the association and the scheme at each year end period: 31-Mar-16 31-Mar-15 31-Mar-14 £’000 £’000 £’000 Year 1 146 95 92 Year 2 152 99 95 Year 3 157 102 99 Year 4 163 106 102 Year 5 151 110 106 Year 6 139 98 110 Year 7 144 84 98 Year 8 135 87 84 Year 9 125 76 87 Year 10 129 65 76 Year 11 66 67 65 Year 12 - 34 67 Year 13 - - 34 The company must recognise a liability measured as the present value of the contributions payable that arise from the deficit recovery agreement and the resulting expense in the income and expenditure account i.e. the unwinding of the discount rate as a finance cost in the period in which it arises. It is these contributions that have been used to derive the company’s balance sheet liability. 102 Accord Group