Description: Presented at May 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about types of products involved, accounting alternatives, federal income tax considerations, status of FASB proposal, requirements of SEC, and asset/liability matching requirements of regulators.

Description: Panel discussion about GAAP and FASB considerations, and statutory accounting issues. From the 1978 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 4, No. 2.

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: Baseline and "what if"/stressed projections of cash flows, financial statements and capital requirements are critical inputs for a range of business purposes: forecasts, risk management, liquidity management, strategic decision making, etc. Forward-looking projections have historically been inefficient and were performed in silos, making it difficult to scale the process as CFOs and CROs ask for more. The presenters discuss challenges of the forecast process and opportunities to meet desired future capabilities. They will also discuss "what if" analysis and ways to support production of forward-looking projections for "what if" analysis in an efficient way.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Hartford Spring Meeting is about statutory and GAAP financial reporting activities of the NAIC, Financial Accounting Standards Board, Actuarial Standards Board, American Academy of Actuaries, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, SEC, and the SOA Committee on Actuarial Principles.

Description: The Society of Actuaries Research Institute’s Committee on Finance Research (CFR) and Investment Section are seeking researchers to produce a primer that compares regulatory approaches for actuarially related investment aspects of the banking and insurance industries in North America. The underlying motivation for this effort is to educate actuaries on these issues and provide a useful resource for learning more about how these industries compare in this regard.

Description: This article examines the changes in U.S. regulatory reserve and risk-based capital requirements that will significantly impact the insurance industry and practicing actuaries. It summarizes activity related to principles-based reserves and risk-based capital initiatives during 2005.

Description: From a panel discussion session at the 2002 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, September 19–20, 2002 Panelists discuss the embedded value process, including discount rate, uses for embedded value reporting and implementation issues. Also included a discussion of fair value accounting methodology.

Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Guidelines for the Reporting of Self-Administered Reinsurance, What are the proposed guidelines, Why are they necessary, How will ceding companies be affected, What is the impact of recent auditing and U.S. Tax law developments.

Description: This is an update, as of July 2020, on projects in process and those recently completed sponsored by the Financial Reporting Section.