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  • Where Have All The Earnings Gone?
    Where Have All The Earnings Gone? This article discusses the impact on the financial statements of changing from Statutory Accounting to GAAP Accounting and the under-reporting of long-term ...

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    • Authors: George L Hogeman
    • Date: Feb 1974
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: The Actuary Magazine
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting
  • Introduction to Credit Risk Exposure of Life Insurers
    Introduction to Credit Risk Exposure of Life Insurers This article is dedicated to the non-statutory accounting treatment of common credit risk exposures of life insurers but does not cover all ...

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    • Authors: Jing Fritz
    • Date: Sep 2022
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Risk Management
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Risk measurement - Finance & Investments; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Accounting Standards Board [IASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS]
  • In Good Times and Bad, We are Actuaries
    In Good Times and Bad, We are Actuaries Article about how all the changes have not really affected our basic work. By Jonathan Pollio Small Talk, March 2021 On New Year’s Eve 2019, I watched ...

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    • Authors: Jonathan M Pollio
    • Date: Mar 2021
    • Competency: Communication; Professional Values
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Best practices; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
  • Mind the GAAP and Non-GAAP
    Mind the GAAP and Non-GAAP Importance of non-GAAP operating earnings By Robert Winawer, Yiqing Zhang and Joe Kalin The Financial Reporter, September 2021 It is hard to overstate the attention ...

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    • Authors: Robert E Winawer
    • Date: Sep 2021
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
  • Accounting for Ceded Reinsurance Under LDTI—Constraints
    Accounting for Ceded Reinsurance Under LDTI—Constraints As a follow-up to a previous five-part series on accounting for ceded reinsurance under LDTI, this article focuses on one issue that has, ...

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    • Authors: Steven Malerich
    • Date: Jul 2022
    • Competency: Results-Oriented Solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Reinsurance>Reserving - Reinsurance
  • FASB Update
    FASB Update Discussion of FASB's recent activity on relevant projects other than insurance contracts, particularly financial instruments, fair value disclosures and goodwill impairment.

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    • Authors: Leonard Reback
    • Date: Sep 2016
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
  • Financial Reporting Research Update
    Financial Reporting Research Update Update on research projects sponsored by the Financial Reporting Section. accounting standards;statutory reserves;GAAP reserves 6442476984 6/1/2017 12:00:00 AM ...

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    • Authors: James S Hawke
    • Date: Jun 2017
    • Competency: Professional Values>Practice expertise
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Fair value accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting
  • Universal Life GAAP - A Survey
    Universal Life GAAP - A Survey This article describes that some companies are ‘approaching the problem of how to accommodate Universal Life in GAAP statements by using a simple method which ...

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    • Authors: Douglas Doll
    • Date: Apr 1983
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: The Actuary Magazine
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Life Insurance>Universal life
  • One Right Answer: A Challenge for Actuaries
    One Right Answer: A Challenge for Actuaries A reflection on the need/desire for one right answer when there isn't one Accounting standards; 9184 5/1/2004 12:00:00 AM ...

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    • Authors: Carol A Marler
    • Date: May 2004
    • Competency: Communication>Persuasive communication; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Standards of practice; Financial Reporting & Accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
  • New Survey of the Use of Alternative Financial Metrics by U.S. Life Insurers
    New Survey of the Use of Alternative Financial Metrics by U.S. Life Insurers Performance measurement is not the primary purpose of either GAAP or statutory accounting. This article discusses ...

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    • Authors: Arnold Dicke
    • Date: Dec 2005
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Enterprise Risk Management>Capital management - ERM; Enterprise Risk Management>Financial management; Enterprise Risk Management>Risk measurement - ERM; Finance & Investments>Economic capital; Financial Reporting & Accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting