Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Hartford Spring Meeting is about mutual company GAAP including defining what GAAP means for mutual companies, contrasting it with stock company GAAP, and discussing implementation issues. Alternative Minimum Tax is also discussed.

Description: US GAAP for Life Insurers chapter 7 spreadsheets. Spreadsheets demonstrate cashflows for single premium deferred annuity under SFAS91. Please see the book US GAAP for Life Insurers for full detail on US GAAP.

Description: Presenters discuss: [1] market-value accounting, [2] accounting for mortgage-backed securities [MBSs] and collateralized mortgage obligations [CMOs], [3] the emergence of earnings under FAS 60 and FAS 97 products, and [4] effectively communicating financial results to management. Session 10 of the 1992 Valuation Actuary Symposium.

Description: This article discusses the FASB Exposure Draft, “Accounting and Reporting by Insurance Enterprises for Certain Long-Duration Insurance Contracts and for Realized Gains and Losses from the Sale of Investments.”

Description: This teaching session at the 2004 Valuation Actuary Symposium covers the practical aspects of implementing GAAP reserves and sales inducements under Statement of Position 03-1 on Accounting and Reporting by Insurance Enterprises for Certain Nontraditional Long-Duration Contracts and for Separate Accounts.

Description: The panel discussed the accounting profession's attempts to codify an area that has long been subject to a wide variety of practice. Topics covered: 1. Accounting under the various methods of acquisitions: pooling of interests, purchase of stock, assumption reinsurance, indemnity reinsurance. 2. Benefit reserve approaches under Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 60 within the context of defined-valuation premium approach versus defined-initial reserve approach. 3. Approaches to determination of discount rate for the present value of future profits and purchase date 4. Effect of differing levels of goodwill on earnings accretion versus dilution.

Description: The panelists at this session of the SOA 2003 Washington, DC Spring Meeting discuss recent GAAP activities including new Standards of Practice for new nontraditional products and internal replacements. Developments at the FASB and SEC are also discussed.

Description: This session from the 1992 Valuation Actuary Symposium covers recoverability and loss recognition including using cash flow testing to determine loss recognition or recoverability, actuarial standard of practice 14, and valuation work by line of business or issue-year groups.

Description: In this article, we collected data from the companies’ roll-forward disclosures related to calendar years 2021 and 2022 on Market Risk Benefit and shared a high-level summary of the Market Risk Benefit volatility that a focus group of companies incurred and summarized the most common ways to mitigate volatility.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 2004 San Antonio Spring Meeting discuss the implications of a Statement of Position [SOP-03-1]. Reserving issues related to common features of variable annuities, universal life and variable universal life are explored.