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  • Recognition of Sales Inducement and Policy Exchange Credits Under GAAP
    during his public accounting career. Currently his primary responsibilities include GAAP and SEC reporting ... assistant vice-president and product actuary for a direct response insurance company. He was also responsible ...

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    • Authors: John B Kleiman, John Morris, Mary S Saslow, Daniel C Gifford
    • Date: Jun 2001
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
  • Relationship of IRR to ROI on a Level Term Life Insurance Policy
    IL. BY THE SOCIETY OF ACTUARIES O ne of the primary pricingmeasures for individual lifeinsurance products ... Commissions and expenses (both direct and ceded) • Required capital based on direct premiums To examine the ...

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    • Authors: Wayne Stuenkel
    • Date: Sep 2002
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Life Insurance>Pricing - Life Insurance
  • Public Issues Involving Actuaries and Accountants
    responsibility to users; and makes the distinction between "direct" and "indirect" users. All of this helps to sharpen ... consult if there was another primary actuary who was the principle or primary consultant of the insurance ...

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    • Authors: Edwin F Boynton, M Stanley Hughey, Jarvis Farley, Frank A. Bruni, Stewart Lyon, Randolph H. Waterfield
    • Date: May 1981
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Professional associations; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Pensions & Retirement>Pension accounting
  • U.S. GAAP Update
    The problem is that many direct writers get good reinsurance quotes. The direct writer wasn't comfortable ... years, whereas a lot of the reinsurers were. The direct company could get rid of its mortality risk or ...

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    • Authors: Robert B Thomas, Michael Hughes, Darin Zimmerman
    • Date: Oct 2004
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
  • Financial Accounting Standards Board FASB Disclosure, Accounting, and Reporting for Pension Plans
    of plan financial reporting by identifying the primary objective of plan financial statements. FASBREPORTING ... FASBREPORTING FOR PENSION PLANS 721 We decided that the primary objective should be to provide financial information ...

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    • Authors: Robert L Bein, Warren D Orloff, Jules M Cassel
    • Date: Jun 1980
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Pensions & Retirement>Pension accounting
  • New Lines Of Business In An Established Company
    There I mentioned that it has been said that the primary job of management is to manage capital and that ... lines of business that a company generates, not by direct entry, but by acquiring another entity in that ...

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    • Authors: James H Charles, Michael Cowell, Larry R Robinson, Donald R Sondergeld, Nancy Stockmeyer
    • Date: Apr 1983
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
  • Where Did All the Mergers and Acquisitions Go?
    and product range. It brought them the long- term care and some market distribution that it didn't have ... business has been a primary driver on the life insurance side, and long-term care Where Did All the ...

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    • Authors: John Nigh, Laird D Zacheis, Stephen Fromm
    • Date: May 2005
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Finance & Investments; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
  • New Products Accounting Alternatives
    relative levels of risks and functions performed. The primary performance and risk elements in a UL contract ... premium over the net premium) should be recognized in direct relation to premium revenues. In the absence of ...

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    • Authors: Edward F Bader, Shane A Chalke, Rex D Hemme, Linda L Wein
    • Date: Jun 1985
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Annuities>Individual annuities; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting; Life Insurance>Universal life
  • GAAP Targeted Improvements—Illustrated Term Insurance Earnings
    reserve true up—unlocking, additional accrual, and direct offset. Table 5 illustrates those components, with ... predictable effect is a direct result of the matching principle. Since the primary purpose of the reserve ...

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    • Authors: Steven Malerich
    • Date: Sep 2016
    • Competency: Professional Values>Practice expertise; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance; Life Insurance>Term life
  • Implementation of ASU 2010-26
    selecting the historical starting point, to which we direct the interested reader. 2. Can a company use ... guidance as to reasonable estimates, to which we direct the interested reader. In our experience, most ...

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    • Authors: Thomas W Fineis, Jeffrey Lortie, Kathryn Marie Egan
    • Date: Jun 2012
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Internal forces and business performance
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]