401k Retirement Plan: A Case study on Data Path Limited
Abstract
Data Path Limited acts as a third-party administrator to its mother
company, July Services established in Texas, USA. July Services is bound
to outsource its business processes as the average gross salary in the US
is high. It is due to this reason that the mother company arranges more
TPA companies to carry out its 401k operations effectively and
efficiently.
The accounting principles or procedures of Retirement Provident Fund
(RPF) followed by the USA is complex on root level as opposed to what
we learn here in Bangladesh. People in the USA industry follow a set of
rules and regulations while carrying out the 401k operations and it is due
to those rules that the RPF accounting procedures have grown to be so
complicated in the first place.
The RPF industry without any doubt may have an impact on the
outsourcing world here in Bangladesh. This sector happens to be lucrative
as more people are investing in 401k plans at an exponential rate and
simultaneously showing growth in both stock market and individual
financial security.
Bangladesh can learn a lot from this industry. This applies to how one
must abide by rules and how the US government is concerned for its
elderly and retired citizens.