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  • GAAP Refresher
    in relation to how complete a contract is. The primary focus in GAAP is really on earnings, and it has ... accounting standards setting to other parties. The primary body is the Financial Accounting Standards Board ...

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    • Authors: Robert Frasca, William Hines
    • Date: Nov 2011
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
  • Current Topics In Financial Reporting
    limitation of 150% of one year's premium. The primary guidance received by Valuation Actuaries is from ... was modified to require identification of the primary location of the company's 2572 CURRENT TOPICS ...

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    • Authors: Wayne Kauth, William J Schreiner, Wayne S Upton, George R. Wallace
    • Date: Oct 1986
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting
  • Hedging Variable Annuity Guarantees: A Practical Discussion
    Once the reinsurance market started to dry up, the direct writers had to look at other alternatives. Not ... there are even differences of opinion within our primary auditor in terms of how you should go about valuing ...

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    • Authors: Zafar Rashid, Francis Sabatini, Application Administrator, Daniel D Heyer, Mark Evans
    • Date: Jun 2004
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Incorporate risk management
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Annuities>Guaranteed living benefits; Annuities>Variable annuities; Finance & Investments>Risk measurement - Finance & Investments; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Stochastic models
  • U.S. GAAP Update
    FAS 113 basically says you must look at it on a direct basis and on a ceded basis and calculate the reserve ... even the charge pattern on reinsurance versus the direct side. You'll often have very high coinsurance ...

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    • Authors: Richard Farrell, Steven H Mahan, David White
    • Date: May 2005
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Professional Values>Practice expertise
    • 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]
  • Worldwide Accounting Developments
    ABI is that you can use achieved profits as the primary method of reporting under U.K. GAAP. However, ... accounting standards, what they are, and why should you care. Time permitting at the end, we'll talk about related ...

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    • Authors: J Engels, Brett McWilliam, S Michael McLaughlin
    • Date: May 2002
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Accounting Standards Board [IASB]
  • Health GAAP Topics
    health busi- ness: Medicare supplement, long-term care, comprehensive major medical, and what we call ... results are better than expected. Our long-term care business has a higher reserve than asset. On those ...

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    • Authors: Robert Beal, Helen L Hofmann, Robert Shapland
    • Date: Jun 1995
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
  • Current Topics in GAAP
    change your whole life contract to a long-term-care contract, and therefore, it's not an internal replacement ... contract—as long as the GMDB didn't become the primary benefit and everything else in the SOP was satisfied ...

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    • Authors: Charles Carroll, John Morris, David Rogers, Phillip Shane Elenbaas, David M Brown
    • Date: Oct 2002
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
  • Current Events - GAAP
    out what will be in there and when. Also, take care upon implementation, because what you do now pretty ... you're trading in a hospital indemnity for long-term care, that is different types of morbidity risks.

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    • Authors: John Morris, Michael Hughes, Jason Morton, Deborah Whitmore
    • Date: May 2003
    • 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]
  • Let's Make a Deal: Life and Health Mergers and Acquisitions
    Volume 24 EPS multiples and P/E multiples are the primary benchmarks used in the stock market. Herb, would ... namely, the stock or bond of the day. There is a direct correlation between turnover in Wall Street, commissions ...

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    • Authors: Charles Carroll, Herbert E Goodfriend, William R Horbatt
    • Date: Jun 1998
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Life Insurance
  • GAAP Issues - General
    addition, he worked in the company’s pension, health care and reinsurance divisions. Our third speaker is ... by using an assumed closing ratio. There’s no direct reference by the FASB to this conclusion in their ...

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    • Authors: Alastair G Longley-Cook, John Morris, David White, Gregory Smith
    • Date: Sep 2000
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]