Description: This session at the SOA 1998 Maui I Spring Meeting discusses GAAP financial reporting in terms of the types of management information GAAP provides, how to interpret that information, and how to measure emerging experience versus expectations. Analysis of GAAP ROE and GAAP source of earnings is presented.

Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Applicable American Academy of Actuaries financial reporting recommendations, Techniques used in establishing margins, Appropriate margins under internal replacement programs, GAAP earnings impact of various methods for establishing margins for adverse deviation, Special considerations for interest-sensitive and lapse-sensitive products.

Description: Presented at April 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed different accounting alternatives for products such as Universal Life, deferred annuities, variable products.

Description: This presentation is an open forum, session 48OF, from the 2004 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 14-15 in San Antonio, TX. The panelists focus on emerging U.S. GAAP accounting issues, and the implementation issues encountered by affected companies. The panelists discuss Statement of Position [SOP] 03-1 on nontraditional long-duration life insurance contracts, the SOP on internal replacements, and the impact of the Derivatives Implementation Group issue B36 on embedded derivatives for modified coinsurance and funds withheld reinsurance. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 2.

Description: Discusses: [1] the effects of Financial Accounting Standard No. 97 [FAS 97] on recoverability and loss-recognition issues, [2] interest-crediting strategy, ways and means of maintaining the planned interest spread, the effects of the various strategies on lapse experience, and the ultimate effect on recoverability of the deferred acquisition costs, and [3] premium-deficiency testing and the modification of interest, mortality, and expense margins to satisfy the question of loss recognition, or lack of the ability to recover the remaining deferred asset. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 3.

Description: The life insurance and annuity marketplace is experiencing fierce competition, and many life insurance companies have responded to this by offering special product upgrades to their policyholders with the intent of retaining their business. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 2, Session 100PD of the Toronto Spring Meeting.

Description: This session from the 1995 New Orleans Meeting covers FASB/AICPA pronouncements concerning application of GAAP to mutual life insurance companies. Panelists will discuss practical issues, including materiality and use of approximations. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 1.

Description: The purpose of this session is to review and discuss the principles and guidelines published and/or under consideration within the accounting and the actuarial professions regarding the restatement of GAAP financial of a life company acquired in a transaction to be accounted for as a purchase transaction under SPB 016. Our purpose is also to review with you some of the specific approaches that have been taken, and the problems that have developed, in implementing purchase-GAAP in practice. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1979, Volume 5, No. 1.

Description: This 1978 presentation discusses the recommendation made by the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants to move to a GAAP basis for reporting for life insurance companies. The primary purposes would be to report earnings on a going concern basis, rather than on a basis dominated by solvency considerations, and to promote improved comparability of reported financial results among companies.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session discussion is about reinsurance accounting for life and health insurers. It covers both statutory developments and GAAP developments. Topics included: 1. NAIC model regulation and some of the specific state issues. 2. FAS 113, reinsurance accounting under GAAP accounting principles. 3. Fronting issues. 4. Disclosure reporting. 5. The role of reinsurance as one of several financial and capital management solutions available to insurance companies. 6. Business applications that flow out of the current accounting developments