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 session at the SOA 1990 Hartford Spring Meeting is about mutual company GAAP including defining what GAAP means for mutual companies, contrasting it with stock company GAAP, and discussing implementation issues. Alternative Minimum Tax is also discussed.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto. In this session dealing with life insurance company federal income tax, the panelists discuss the impact of the so-called deferred acquisition cost [DAC] or proxy DAC tax created by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act [OBRA] of 1990. Topics include stock versus mutual company reactions and response, the impact on mergers and acquisitions, reinsurance, and consolidation, product changes, small company problems and opportunities, new categories of specified insurance contracts, and the impact on Canadian companies. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4B.

Description: 1999 SOA Annual Meeting, San Francisco. The panel examined the current efforts of several organizations to craft the next century's insurance valuation framework, and how these efforts are reshaping the way we will do business in the future.

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: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting reviews recent U.S. regulatory and tax developments, U.S. product taxation issues including corporate-owned life insurance COLI and certificate of deposit CD annuities and a summary of recent Canadian income tax developments. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4b.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual Meeting looks at mutual company GAAP issues including objectives, common features, comparison to stock company GAAP, and the effect on management of the company.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, San Francisco. This session explored the process of marking liabilities to market. Topics included: 1. A summary of the FAS 115 requirements. 2. The ACADEMY TASK FORCE ON FAIR VALUE OF LIABILITIES. 3. APPRAISAL METHODS SUBGROUP - FOUR APPROACHES TO FAIR VALUING LIABILITIES. 4. THE PROBLEM OF MARKING LIABILITIES TO MARKET. 5. FOUR APPROACHES TO DISCOUNTING LIABILITY CASH FLOWS.

Description: Presented at May 1996 Spring Meeting. Panelists share experiences and discuss alternative approaches to various implementation issues related to mutual company GAAP conversions.

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.