Description: 2003 Valuation Actuary Symposium, San Diego, CA. This session covered the practical aspects of implementing the Statement of Position on accounting and reporting by insurance enterprises for certain nontraditional long-duration contracts and for separate accounts. Specific items include SA reporting, multiple account value products, guaranteed minimum death and living benefit reserves and sales inducements

Description: This session at the 1998 Valuation Actuary Symposium examines Purchase GAAP accounting for life insurance acquisitions and identifies the major steps for implementing GAAP for acquisitions.

Description: 1998 Valuation Actuary Symposium. The speakers provided an overview of the GAAP accounting prior to SFAS 133, an example of that guidance and how the accounting works, the new GAAP guidance, the new SFAS 133, and deferred acquisition cost considerations for equity-indexed annuities.

Description: 1998 Valuation Actuary Symposium. The speakers discussed dissecting and rearranging GAAP financials to provide more meaningful information and a comparison of the FAS 60 format of reporting earnings to a source-of-earnings format.

Description: This presentation is an open forum, session number 11OF, from the 2000 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held September 14-15 in Washington, DC. The panelists discuss recent Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP] developments and practical problems in implementing and maintaining GAAP systems. Topics include recent GAAP pronouncements and American Institute of Certified Public Accountants [AICPA] Insurance Companies Committee developments. Discussion from participants is included.

Description: Presenters discuss: [1] market-value accounting, [2] accounting for mortgage-backed securities [MBSs] and collateralized mortgage obligations [CMOs], [3] the emergence of earnings under FAS 60 and FAS 97 products, and [4] effectively communicating financial results to management. Session 10 of the 1992 Valuation Actuary Symposium.

Description: Presented at May 1996 Spring Meeting. Presents an overview of conference co-sponsored by the SOA on fair value of insurance liabilities, including a comparison of some of the methods presented. A status update of recent industry and professional activities and what the future may hold for the use of fair value of insurance liabilities in insurance company financial statements is also provided.

Description: In session 51CS of the Maui I Spring Meeting the Panel describes what every actuary should know about mergers and acquisitions in the life and health insurance business. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 1.

Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. This session covers the AICPA's proposed statement of position on accounting and reporting by insurance enterprises for certain nontraditional, long-duration contracts and for separate accounts. It requires new GAAP reserves for certain variable annuities with guaranteed minimum death benefits 'GMDBs'.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting covers recent developments in the U.S. Topics include FASB and AICPA pronouncements such as FAS 115, GAAP for mutuals, and performance measurement and other uses of GAAP financial statements. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4a.