FLEXSTEEL INDUSTRIES, INC. SALARIED EMPLOYEES
RETIREMENT AND 401(k) PLAN
(Plan #007 EIN: 42-0442319)
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
AS OF AND FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER
31, 2007 AND 2006
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DESCRIPTION OF THE PLAN
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The following description of the Flexsteel Industries, Inc. Salaried Employees Retirement and 401(k) Plan (the Plan) is provided for general information purposes only. Participants should refer to the Plan document for more complete information.
General
The Plan is a defined contribution plan covering substantially all salaried employees of Flexsteel Industries, Inc. (the Company) who have reached the age of 21 and have completed one year of service. Participation is voluntary. The Plan administrator controls and manages the operation and administration of the Plan. Assets of the Plan are held by the Principal Life Insurance Company and American Trust & Savings Bank of Dubuque, Iowa (collectively referred to as the Custodians). American Trust & Savings Bank holds the Flexsteel Industries, Inc. common stock fund only. A committee appointed by the Board of Directors of the Company administers the Plan. The Plan is subject to the provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), as amended.
Transfers
During the years ended December 31, 2007 and 2006, the Plan received transfers from other company benefit plans totaling $60,115 and $43,249, respectively, related to certain employee job classification changes.
Contributions and Vesting
The Plan allows eligible employees to elect to have from 1% to 50% (sales personnel are subject to a 6% maximum) of their basic pretax pay contributed to the Plan. Employee contributions are by law subject to a maximum of $15,500 and $15,000 in calendar year 2007 and 2006, respectively. The Company contributes an amount equal to 25% of the first 4% of pay the employee contributes. Participant and Company basic contributions are 100% vested. The Company, at its option, may also contribute additional amounts to be allocated among all participants based on the participants pay; such additional discretionary contributions vest over six years (20% after two years, 40% after three years, 60% after four years, 80% after five years, and 100% after six years). Discretionary Company contributions may be made in either cash or Company
stock, at the Companys discretion. In addition, the Company contributes 4% of pay up to the social security limit and 6% of pay in excess of this limit on a monthly basis. Forfeited balances of terminated participants may first be applied to pay expenses, which would otherwise be paid by the Company. Forfeitures not used to pay expenses shall be applied to reduce future company contributions. In 2007 and 2006, forfeitures totaled $29,044 and $41,117, respectively.
Participant Accounts
Individual accounts are maintained for each Plan participant. Each participants account is credited with the Companys contribution and allocations of Plan earnings, and is charged with an allocation of Plan losses and administrative expenses. Allocations are based on compensation, participant investment elections, and account balances, as defined. The benefit to which a participant is entitled is the benefit that can be provided from the participants vested account.
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Investments
Plan participants direct their contributions to any of the 18 investment accounts available. The investment option in the Guaranteed Interest Account is not benefit responsive because participants may not be able to transact at contract value for transactions such as investment transfers, early withdrawals or termination. The Guaranteed Interest Account is presented at fair market value of $1,175,293 and $3,143,546 as of December 31, 2007 and 2006, respectively. The contract value of the Guaranteed Interest Account was $1,184,039 and $3,204,192 as of December 31, 2007 and 2006, respectively. Participants will not pay a surrender charge for distributions to participants and qualified domestic relations orders (during 60-day window following event), beneficiaries (during 120-day window), due to normal retirement
(during 60-day window after normal retirement date and a second 60-day window after actual physical retirement) or minimum distributions. Participants will not pay a surrender charge when the U.S. Treasury Rate is equal to or less than the guaranteed rate being credited. Participants will pay a surrender charge when the U.S. Treasury Rate is higher than the guaranteed rate being credited.
Payment of Benefits
Distributions of benefits are paid upon retirement, death, disability, and in certain hardship cases. Distributions, in certain cases, may also occur on termination of the Plan or disposition of substantially all of the Companys assets to another entity. Otherwise, benefits will be distributed on the later of the date the participant attains age 65, the tenth anniversary of the participants entry date, or the date the participant ceases to be an employee. If a participants vested account balance has never exceeded $1,000, the entire vested account balance shall be payable as a single lump sum upon retirement, death, or termination. For participants whose vested account balance exceeds $1,000, benefits are paid in an automatic form unless an optional form has been selected by the participant or their beneficiary.
Automatic Forms
The automatic form of retirement benefits shall be in the form of an immediate survivorship life annuity with installment refund for participants with a spouse or a single life annuity with installment refund for participants without a spouse.
The automatic form of death benefits shall be: (1) a qualified preretirement survivor annuity for participants who have a spouse to whom they have been continuously married throughout the one-year period ending on the date of their death, or (2) a single-sum payment to the participants beneficiary for participants who do not have a spouse who is entitled to the qualified preretirement survivor annuity.
Optional Forms
The optional forms of death benefits are a single-sum payment and any annuity that is an optional form of retirement benefit. However, the full flexibility option shall not be available if the beneficiary is not the spouse of the deceased participant.
The optional forms of retirement benefits shall be: (1) straight life annuity; (2) single life annuities with certain periods of 5, 10, or 15 years; (3) single life annuity with installment refund; (4) survivorship life annuities with installment refund and survivorship percentages of 50%, 66-2/3%, or 100%; (5) fixed period annuities; (6) a series of installments chosen by the participant with a minimum payment each year beginning with age 70-1/2 (full flexibility option); or (7) single-sum payment.
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SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
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Basis of Accounting
The financial statements have been prepared on the accrual basis in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
Use of Estimates
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires Plan management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of net assets available for benefits and changes therein. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
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Risks and Uncertainties
The Plan utilizes various investment instruments, including mutual funds. Investment securities, in general, are exposed to various risks, such as interest rate, credit, and overall market volatility. Due to the level of risk associated with certain investment securities, it is reasonably possible that changes in the values of investment securities will occur in the near term and that these changes could materially affect the amounts reported in the financial statements.
Investment Valuation and Income Recognition
The Plans investments are stated at fair value. Shares of mutual funds are valued at quoted market prices, which represent the net asset value of shares held by the Plan at year-end. Common stock is valued at quoted market prices. The fair values of the pooled separate accounts are valued based on the quoted market prices of the underlying investments. The fully benefit-responsive Stable Value Select Fund is stated at fair value and then adjusted to contract value. Fair value of the Stable Value Select Fund is determined based on the audited financial statements of the Fund. The fair values of the conventional investment contracts are based on discounting the related cash flows based on current yields of similar instruments with comparable durations. The Guaranteed Investment
Contract is not fully benefit responsive and is stated at fair value. Fair value of the contract is calculated by discounting the related cash flows based on current yields of similar instruments with comparable durations.
In accordance with Financial Accounting Standards Board Staff Position, FSP AAG INV-1 and SOP 94-4-1,
Reporting of Fully Benefit-Responsive Contracts Held by Certain Investment Companies Subject to the AICPA Investment Company Guide and Defined-Contribution Health and Welfare and Pension Plans
(the FSP), the statements of net assets available for benefits present an investment contract at fair value, as well as an additional line item showing an adjustment of the fully benefit-responsive contract from fair value to contract value. The statement of changes in net assets available for benefit is presented on a contract value basis and is not affected by the FSP.
New Accounting Pronouncements
In September 2006, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Statement on Financial Accounting Standards No. 157 (SFAS No. 157),
Fair Value Measurements
. SFAS No. 157 establishes a single authoritative definition of fair value, sets a framework for measuring fair value and requires additional disclosures about fair value measurement. SFAS No. 157 is effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years beginning after November 17, 2007. Plan management has not completed the process of evaluating the impact that will result from adopting SFAS No. 157. Plan management is therefore unable to disclose the impact that adopting SFAS No. 157 will have on the Plans net assets available for benefits and changes in net assets
available for benefits.
Expenses
Certain administrative expenses of the Plan, such as contract administration, recordkeeping, and transaction fees, are paid by the Plan. Certain other administrative fees of the Plan are paid by the Company. Administrative expenses charged to the Plan were not significant. Expenses paid by the Company were $74,708 and $55,490 for the years ended December 31, 2007 and 2006, respectively.
Payment of Benefits
Benefit payments to participants are recorded when requested, which is effectively upon distribution.
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Investments that represent 5% or more of the Plans net assets for the years ended December 31, 2007 and 2006, were as follows:
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2007
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2006
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Principal Private Market Bond and Mortgage Account*
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$
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4,953,876
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$
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5,136,187
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Principal Large Cap Stock Index Fund*
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13,687,356
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14,964,809
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Principal Small Company Blend Stock Fund*
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5,213,711
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6,253,056
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Principal Diversified International Separate Account*
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7,653,185
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6,852,967
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Principal Stable Value Select Fund*
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13,241,277
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10,034,891
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* Denotes party-in-interest
The net appreciation (depreciation) in the fair value of investments for the years ended December 31, 2007 and 2006, was as follows:
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2007
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2006
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Flexsteel Industries, Inc. common stock
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$
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(105,838
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$
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(199,978
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Guaranteed interest account
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71,991
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145,734
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Mutual funds
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300,851
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166,458
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Common/collective trust funds
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499,419
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348,675
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Pooled separate accounts
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2,544,833
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5,758,278
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$
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3,311,256
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$
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6,219,167
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RELATED-PARTY TRANSACTIONS
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At December 31, 2007 and 2006, the Plan held 140,967 and 134,020 shares, respectively, of common stock of Flexsteel Industries, Inc., the sponsoring employer. During 2007 and 2006, the Plan recorded dividend income of $0.52 per share.
Certain Plan investments are managed by Principal Life or its affiliates. Principal Life is the custodian as defined by the Plan. These transactions qualify as exempt party-in-interest transactions.
The above transactions are exempt party-in-interest transactions.
Although it has not expressed any intention to do so, the Company has the right under the Plan to discontinue its contributions at any time and to terminate the Plan subject to the provisions set forth in ERISA. In the event that the Plan is terminated, participants would become 100% vested in their account.
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FEDERAL INCOME TAX STATUS
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The Internal Revenue Service has determined and informed the Company by letter dated September 27, 2002, that the Plan qualifies under the applicable sections of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) and, therefore, the related trust is not subject to tax under current tax law. Once qualified, the Plan is required to operate in conformity with the IRC to maintain its tax qualification. The Plan has been amended since receiving the determination letter. The Plan administrator believes the Plan is currently designed and is being operated in compliance with the applicable requirements of the IRC and, as a result, no provision for income taxes is believed necessary.
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RECONCILIATION OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS TO FORM 5500
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The following is a reconciliation of net assets available for benefits per the financial statements to the Form 5500 as of December 31, 2007 and 2006.
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2007
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2006
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Net assets available for benefits per the financial statements
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$
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61,482,338
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$
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62,247,467
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Adjustment from contract value to fair value for fully benefit-responsive investment contract(s)
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85,895
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156,794
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Net assets available for benefits per the Form 5500
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$
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61,396,443
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$
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62,090,673
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For the year ended December 31, 2007, the following is a reconciliation of total additions per the financial statements to the Form 5500:
Total additions per the financial statements
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$
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6,819,828
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Transfers from other plans
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(60,115
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Adjustment from contract value to fair value for fully benefit-responsive investment contract (prior year)
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156,794
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Adjustment from contract value to fair value for fully benefit-responsive investment contract (current year)
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(85,895
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Total Income per Form 5500
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$
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6,830,612
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SUPPLEMENTAL SCHEDULE
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FLEXSTEEL INDUSTRIES, INC. SALARIED EMPLOYEES
RETIREMENT AND 401(k) PLAN
(Plan #007 EIN: 42-0442319)
SCHEDULE H, LINE 4i SCHEDULE OF ASSETS (HELD AT END OF YEAR)
AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2007
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Current
Value
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Common Stock Flexsteel Industries, Inc. common stock (1)
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$
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1,691,604
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Mutual Funds:
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Vanguard Explorer Fund
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1,692,787
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American Funds Growth Fund of America
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2,341,217
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Principal Life Insurance Company (2):
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Guaranteed Interest Account (interest rate ranges: 2.45%3.78%)
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1,175,292
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Stable Value Select Fund
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13,241,277
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Pooled Separate Accounts:
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Money Market Account
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Private Market Bond and Mortgage Account
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4,953,876
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Large Cap Stock Index Fund
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13,687,356
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Large Cap Blend Account
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21,082
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Mid Cap Stock Index Fund
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2,498,964
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Small Company Blend Stock Fund
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5,213,711
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Large Cap Value Account
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1,384,493
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Diversified International Separate Account
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7,653,185
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Lifetime Strategic Income Account
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269,829
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Lifetime 2010 Account
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2,494,055
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Lifetime 2020 Account
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1,807,382
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Lifetime 2030 Account
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558,440
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Lifetime 2040 Account
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297,151
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Lifetime 2050 Account
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173,060
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TOTAL
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$
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61,154,761
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(1)
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Flexsteel Industries, Inc., the Plan Sponsor, is
known to be a party-in-interest.
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(2)
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Principal Life Insurance Company, the Custodian, is
known to be a party-in-interest.
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