Description: The panel discussed the accounting profession's attempts to codify an area that has long been subject to a wide variety of practice. Topics covered: 1. Accounting under the various methods of acquisitions: pooling of interests, purchase of stock, assumption reinsurance, indemnity reinsurance. 2. Benefit reserve approaches under Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 60 within the context of defined-valuation premium approach versus defined-initial reserve approach. 3. Approaches to determination of discount rate for the present value of future profits and purchase date 4. Effect of differing levels of goodwill on earnings accretion versus dilution.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This discussion centers on GAAP implementation and some practical issues for FASB Interpretation 40 with regards to mutual insurers.

Description: Presented at May 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about Financial Reporting in Canada and the United States, Financial Accounting Standards Board 'FASB' update, National Association of Insurance Commissioners 'NAIC' update, the role of the Valuation Actuary in the United States.

Description: Analysis of movement in the lialbity, or reconciliation of the beginning and ending lialbity under proposed IFRS for insurance contracts, why it's important and the significance to actuaries, insurers and users of financial statements.

Description: This presentation, session number 5PD, took place at the 2000 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 15-18 in Chicago. This session focuses on the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, ‘GAAP,’ methods and standards of practice applicable to accounting for purchase of a block of business. The panelists discuss working with investment bankers and others, presentation and determination of actuarial opening balance sheet items such as benefits reserves and present value of future profits, actuarial appraisal values, impact of synergies, management initiatives, expense savings, projection of GAAP profits, various accounting issues, and applicable Actuarial Standards of Practice. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 26, No. 3. Possible keywords: VOBA=value of business acquired PGAAP=purchase GAAP accounting Actuarial appraisal

Description: Feature article, second part in a series, about the International Accounting Standards Board’s (IASB) and of the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s (FASB) approach to revenue recognition related to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) for insurance contracts.

Description: This article provides illustrations of an approach to presentation of income and expenses that may be applied to long duration contracts, i.e., those that are measured by the building blocks approach for the emerging new standard on insurance contracts.

Description: A description of the requirement to disclose a reconciliation of the opening and ending balance of liabilities for insurance contracts in the proposed new IFRS for insurance, and reasons why it should be seen as more than a compliance effort.

Description: This is the third in a series of articles about revenue recognition for insurance contracts. The articles address revenue recognition for those contracts that are measured by the building blocks approach under the emerging new standards for insurance that are being developed by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) of the United States.

Description: Different points of view about IFRS are explained.