Description: Presented at September 1995 Valuation Actuary Symposium. A distinguished panel of experts and a host of interesting and timely questions regarding financial reporting and valuation actuaries.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 San Francisco Spring Meeting is about mutual company financial reporting and the basis for internal financial management, which includes modified GAAP approaches as well as value added accounting.

Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Francisco. This session used a case study that outlined the various considerations that arise in a GAAP for mutual project.

Description: 1995 Valuation Actuary Symposium. This session covers various approaches to determining fair value of liabilities, Financial Accounting Standard 115, and other GAAP-related matters.

Description: 1996 Valuation Actuary Symposium. Topics discussed in this session on GAAP and purchase GAAP included: 1. FAS 115, so-called actuarial or SEC adjustments, and how practice has been evolving in that area. 2. How companies determine the gross margins for mutual GAAP products and the traditional participating business of mutual companies. 3. Mutual company GAAP. 4. Basics of purchase accounting.

Description: 1999 Valuation Actuary Symposium, Los Angeles. This session provided a brief overview of a variety of financial reporting topics most of which were discussed in more detail at later sessions. Topics included: 1. NAIC Life and Health Actuarial Task Force developments and directions. 2. XXX Implementation Status. 3. New annuity valuation tables. 4. Statutory codification project. 5. AAA developments, including practice notes. 6. Unified Valuation Systems. 7. FASB and SEC developments. 8. Recent tax developments.

Description: Panelists discuss recent developments in the area of fair-value financial reporting for life insurers – specifically, the exposure draft of 'Using Cash-Flow Information,' the concept of entity-specific value, and the fair value of liabilities. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: In this article, the authors recap the 2009 Asian IFRS.

Description: This article is a call for volunteers to assist in developing specialty guides in the life insurance area.

Description: 2011 SOA International Financial Reporting for Insurers Seminar, Hong Kong. This is a spreadsheet associated with Session 23 – Residual Margins Workshop held at the 2011 SOA International Financial Reporting for Insurers Seminar in Hong Kong.