Description: US GAAP for Life Insurers chapter 9 spreadsheets showing examples of payout annuities. Please see the book US GAAP for Life Insurers for more details on US GAAP accounting.

Description: US GAAP for Life Insurers chapter 5 spreadsheet. This spreadsheet shows various tables and figures illustrating the development of expected gross margins, dividends, and DAC amortization for a participating 10 year endowment policy. Please see the book US GAAP for Life Insurers for full details on US GAAP accounting.

Description: US GAAP for Life Insurers chapter 6 spreadsheets. Various spreadsheets illustrate a Universal Life product and the various accounting needs under SFAS97 including DAC and Unearned Revenue Reserve amortization and assumption unlocking. Please see the book US GAAP for Life Insurers for full details on US GAAP accounting.

Description: This article highlights the fact that new requirements for disclosure of average liability duration and interest rates could lead to diversity in practice. It also recognizes that elements of the new disclosure requirements will enable financial statement users to perform their own crude estimates of these averages in ways that could help them to better understand the liabilities and to compare companies using consistent methods. Finally, the article describes how companies might also find value in such crude estimates.

Description: This session from the 1992 Valuation Actuary Symposium covers recoverability and loss recognition including using cash flow testing to determine loss recognition or recoverability, actuarial standard of practice 14, and valuation work by line of business or issue-year groups.

Description: This paper presents a policy-year model for GAAP valuation of reinsurance accepted on the coinsurance and modified coinsurance bases. Also presented are the interrelationships between the model's methodology and statutory accounting procedures, a discussion of experience-refunding situations, and a demonstration of the model's ability to yield GAAP profits as a level percentage of premium. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1981, Vol. 33.

Description: US GAAP for Life Insurers chapter 17 spreadsheets showing various examples of GAAP for reinsurance transactions. Examples shown include reinsurance for disability insurance, YRT, Modco and coinsurance on a 10 year endowment reinsurance on Universal Life. Also shown is an example for DIG36, Total Return Swap with Floating Return Leg. Please see the book US GAAP for Life Insurers for further details on US GAAP accounting.

Description: This article discusses the discount rate that should be used under GASB 45. Public employers now find themselves in a similar situation to private sector employers in the early 1990's in that GASB 45 requires them to measure liabilities including post-retirement medical liabilities using accrual accounting.