Description: This presentation is an open forum, session number 45OF, from the 2002 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held September 19-20 in Lake Buena Vista, FL. The panelists provide an opportunity for participants’ questions to be addressed, including questions submitted in advance, on any valuation symposium issue, including financial reporting, valuation, and tax topics.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, Orlando. This session is about accounting models for actuarial reserves and related items for selected countries in the Far East, Europe, and Latin America.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Toronto Meeting discusses a nontechnical introduction to Applied Statistics and Operations Research, practical applications and examples for financial reporting and asset management and an overview of the potential use in actuarial applications of these management tools. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 4B

Description: A comprehensive look at Actuarial Guideline 43 VA CARVM. This article examines the statutory and tax implications of AG 43 for the determination of reserves for annuity writers.

Description: For actuarial projections to serve as the management tools that they are intended to be, the persons charged with making those projections need to consider whether the projection is sufficiently sophisticated so that it does not miss major items.It is important to consider the tax effect. This article covers several of the major tax issues that should be considered in any actuarial projection.

Description: This discussion at the SOA 1968 Philadephia and Los Angeles Regional Meetings covers adjusted earnings for insurance companies including definition, how it is used, and approaches for different lines of business.

Description: This article provides the reader with some insights regarding tax planning under the new required methodology.

Description: Experts discuss: [1] an overview of U.S. taxation of life-insurance income from 'controlled foreign corporations' [CFCs], [2] the actuarial aspects of the taxation of CFCs, and [3] taxation issues relative to minority-owned [not 'controlled'] foreign corporations. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

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: This article describes the author's impressions from attending a 5-week actuarial educational seminar for the purpose of passing the SOA Part 8 Exam. From The Actuary, December 1971, Vol. 5, No. 10.