Description: 1990 Valuation Actuary Symposium Proceedings is a workshop on statutory, GAAP and tax issues for the valuation actuary. Various specific state regulations are discussed.

Description: Panelists discuss financial reporting issues confronting companies doing business in an multinational environment. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual Meeting looks at proposed and potential tax law changes for insurance companies including 'DAC Tax', stock versus mutual company differences, corporate owned life insurance, and taxing inside build up.

Description: From a session at the 2000 Valuation Actuary Symposium held in Washington DC, September 14-15, 2000 Addresses a variety of financial reporting issues of interest to the attendees at a meeting of Valuation Actuaries.

Description: Issued in 2004 with provisions effective in 2006-2009, the United States accounting standard, GASB 45, requires local and state governments to account for their post-retirement medical and life insurance programs on an accrual basis for the first time. This standard is creating new demands for actuarial services. This article is written for the experienced private sector post-retirement medical plan actuaries with a strong FAS 106 background who are now working on GASB 45 valuations. For these actuaries, there are many similarities between a FAS 106 valuation and a GASB 45 valuation, but there are also many differences.

Description: This paper proposes a hypothesis that the negative public policy implications of durational rating strategies in the medical insurance market are caused by lack of prefunding of durational deterioration of experience and constitute a failure to maintain an important part of the original insuring promise. To solve the problem, a practical and simple reserving basis is proposed as a regulatory standard. Discussions of this paper are included.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session is about FAS 107, FAS 115, RBC and AVR/IMR versus MSVR.

Description: 1990 Valuation Actuary Symposium Proceedings that discusses FAS 96, accounting for income taxes.

Description: 1996 Valuation Actuary Symposium Proceedings - Table of Contents

Description: Presented at April 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Financial reporting systems as a source of information for product development, Interaction of pricing actuary, valuation actuary, and investment officer in designing interest-sensitive products, Allocation impact on product development - expense, investment income, tax, and capital, Financial reporting information on changing premium rates for nonguaranteed premium products, Maintaining consistency between pricing and financial projection models, and Reserve basis impact on product development.