Description: This presentation made at the 1975 Spring Cincinnati Joint Meeting of the Conference of Actuaries in Public Practice and Society of Actuaries addresses the following issues: proposed Audit Guide revision of Accounting Principles Board Opinion No.8 Comparability of pension costs on financial statements and Cost Accounting Standards Board proposal for pension cost under government contracts.

Description: This presentation reviews employers' accounting for pension plans in light of the new proposed standards. The Plan sponsors', actuaries and FASB perspectives are shared. Additionally, the plan design and funding implications of the new standard are presented. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 9, No. 4.

Description: This session discussion is about review of experience under new pension accounting standards in the United States and in Canada i.e., FASB No. 87 and 88, CICA. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 14, No. 1.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Dallas Spring Meeting discusses pension accounting issues with respect to FASB, FAS 87, 88 and 96 including practical problems with their implementation.

Description: This panel discussion, presented at the SOA's May 1976 Meeting in Houston, presented information related to the philosophy and practice of investment income allocation. Topics inlcluded: investment income allocation for individual and group products, subdivision of investment income by line of business, new money rates applicability for individual and group products, investment considerations for pension, annuity and life insurance, and regulatory restraints. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1976, Volume 2, No. 2.

Description: Disclosure of pension information to employees, stockholders and government has been a major public issue in the United States in recent years with enactment of the disclosure and reporting provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act and, more recently, publication of the new accounting and disclosure requirements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board. This 1981 discussion session focuses on public disclosure of retirement plans in the United States and lessons that can be learned from experience with Canadian disclosure and reporting requirements.

Description: This session at the SOA 2004 Annual Meeting looks at the future of accounting for pension plans including current standards of practice, global standards, and rules-based approaches versus principle-driven.

Description: Discussion of GAAP accounting for post employment benefits and FAS 106.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Vancouver Meeting discusses minimum funding and the problems related to establishing and amortizing change-in-method amortization bases. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 3a.