Description: If you’ve been reading my columns for a while, you have no doubt recognized that I tend to be consis- tently optimistic when it comes to the insurance contracts project meeting deadlines. I am constantly disappointed as the International Accounting Standards Board IASB and Financial Accounting Standards Board FASB fail to meet their own deadlines for producing exposure drafts or other papers. But this time is different.

Description: Feature article discussing risk adjustments in insurance company accounts.

Description: Feature article discussing the latest FASB and IASB developments.

Description: Read the September 2017 issue of The Financial Reporter published by the Financial Reporting Section.

Description: This session from the 1994 Valuation Actuary Symposium discusses FASB including that FASB is the designated organization in the private sector for establishing standards of financial reporting and accounting. It also covers the organization and how the FASB process works.

Description: Describes the changes in insurance regulation on both an international and US perspective.

Description: Healthcare costs have been rising faster than general inflation for many years. Early models that predicted this past pattern projected healthcare expenditure growth that continued to outpace total expenditure growth leading to the fallacious position that the whole of the US economy would ultimately be consumed by healthcare. The Society of Actuaries' Pension Section and Health Section Research teams commissioned Professor Thomas E. Getzen of Temple University to construct a resource model for the projection of long term healthcare cost trends that includes capacity constraints to ensure the long-term projection is rational. The motivation for creation of the model was driven by its potential usage as a resource for the estimation of reportable liabilities for retiree healthcare benefits as specified under FAS 106 and GASB 45 accounting statements. This is a zip file containing the following: 1. A background paper on the creation of the health trend model, 2. The model, programmed in Microsoft Excel [xls format], that projects per-person expenditures and growth rates through 2099 using baseline assumptions, but also permits the flexibility for user–inputted alternative assumptions, and 3. Technical documentation providing transparency and support for the ultimate results.

Description: The authors explore major points of the exposure draft (ED) of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). At the same time, they explain the differences between the FASB ED and the ED published nearly simultaneously by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB).

Description: A continuation of the discussion of the practical considerations for implementing the New Accounting Statement of Position for Long-Duration Contracts and for Separate Accounts – Part III

Description: Discussing human resource, computing resources, and process issues to consider when implementing Principle Based Reserves (or VM20)