Description: This presentation discusses the proposed accounting standard on postretirement benefits other than pensions. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 16, No. 4B.

Description: This panel discussion is from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held May 16-17 in New York. The panelists, consisting of certified public accountants, discuss the objectives of the independent audit, the auditor’s report, independence issues, generally accepted auditing standards, ‘GAAS,’ the role of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, ‘AICPA,’ and the Insurance Companies Committee, “ICC,” and relationships with other bodies, including the Financial Accounting Standards Board, ‘FASB,’ the Securities and Exchange Commission, ‘SEC,’ and the Society of Actuaries/American Academy of Actuaries. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 2.

Description: This panel discussion, which occurred at the October 1982 Society of Actuaries Annual Meeting in Washington D.C., presented information on the management of assets in relationship to liabilities. The information was based on a report from the C-3 Risk Task Force. Topics included: 1. Design of investment strategies to develop cash flow patterns appropriate with the liabilities. 2. Structuring the company to assure that investment returns are channeled to appropriate lines of business. 3. Valuing liabilities to appropriately recognize the relationship between assets and liabilities. 4. Should the actuary be concerned with certification of assets as well as liabilities? 5. Equity among lines contributing to investable cash flow.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Hollywood, Florida Meeting reviews life insurance company financial reporting including financial reporting developments in Canada and the U.S., recent accounting developments for non-guaranteed premium products and new issues relating to the U.S. statutory actuarial opinion. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 9, No. 4.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 San Francisco Spring Meeting covers emerging issues in statutory and GAAP financial reporting as well as activity with respect to actuarial principles.

Description: 1998 SOA Spring Meeting, Maui. Panelists addressed recent, current, and proposed activity in the life insurance company financial reporting environment. Actuarial Guidelines 33, 34, and ZZZ were discussed as were equity-indexed products.

Description: This panel discussion is from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held May 16-17 in New York. The panelists discuss emerging issues in both statutory and GAAP financial reporting. They discuss current activities of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, ‘NAIC,’ Financial Accounting Standards Board, ‘FASB,’ Actuarial Standards Board, ‘ASB,’ the American Academy of Actuaries, and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, ‘AICPA.’ Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 2.

Description: This panel discussion, which occurred at the October 1982 Society of Actuaries Annual Meeting in Washington D.C., presented information on the implementation of the 1980 amendments to the Standard Valuation Law. Topics included:1. Status of Enactment, 2. Guidelines For Interpretation, 3. Model Regulations including indeterminate premium plans, indexed plans and universal life., and 4. Computer Specifications for reserves and nonforfeiture values using the 1980 CSO Tables. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 8, No. 4.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1998 Maui I Spring Meeting discuss the American Academy of Actuaries research on valuation and insurance in 14 countries in light of the movement of the NAIC toward a new valuation law.

Description: Panel for session 46SM/L of the New York Annual Meeting presents an update on the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and Financial Accounting Standards Board activities. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.