Description: This session will provide an update on the IRS small-plan audit program. Areas to be addressed include: The Tax Court trial scheduled for January 1992, resolutions program, audit guidelines usability and differentiating between a malpractice and difference of opinion.

Description: This presentation made at the 1975 Spring Cincinnati Joint Meeting of the Conference of Actuaries in Public Practice and Society of Actuaries addresses the following issues: proposed Audit Guide revision of Accounting Principles Board Opinion No.8 Comparability of pension costs on financial statements and Cost Accounting Standards Board proposal for pension cost under government contracts.

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: This presentation from Session 18 of the SOA June 2004 San Antonio Spring Meeting discusses how insured mortality has changed during the past 30 years, which published mortality tables are most appropriate to use in today's pricing environment with the proliferation of preferred risk plans, what factors have historically contributed to mortality improvement assumptions, and how underwriting requirements should be coordinated with setting price assumptions. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 2.

Description: This panel discussion takes an in depth look at SOA and Academy committee proposals on actuarial principles and practices with respect to setting dividends for participating insurance. Discussion centered on equity in distributing surplus and appropriate methods and assumptions.

Description: This session explores the potential cash-flow and financial accounting implications of the equity market decline. The discussion focuses on ways to present these results to clients and asset/liability matching techniques that can be used to dampen the significance of this change. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2, Session 61pd.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Toronto Meeting discusses GAAP Accounting Alternatives For New Products including SPDA's, Universal Life, fixed premium variable life, review of the Audit Guide and the recoginition of premium revenue and variable universal life. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 4B

Description: This panel discussion is about public pension plans including nondiscrimination issues, plan design issues, funding, political considerations, public plans as a source of budget revenue and other current topics. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 1A.

Description: Panelists discuss the current rules and guidelines applicable to pension-plan coverage and participation requirements under many circumstances, from highly compensated employees within a controlled group to minimum participation requirements by plan. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 1.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting covers the efforts in the SOA basic education system to redesign the examination process and the status of the redesign. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4b.