Description: Formulas for changes in GAAP liabilities and liability accrual rates are shown for three assumption update methods—retrospective, prospective and immediate.

Description: US GAAP for Life Insurers chapter 3 spreadsheets. These various spreadsheets show various tables related to insurance company expenses both deferrable and non-deferrable along with DAC and Persistncy bonus amortization schedules. Other tables shown include account value roll forwards Expected Gross Profits EGPs. Please see the book US GAAP for Life Insurers for full information on US GAAP Accounting.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, San Francisco. This session on Purchase GAAP accounting provides insight on related topics currently under discussion by the Emerging Issues Task Force of FASB.

Description: This paper argues by means of a mathematical demonstration that: 1. Natural reserves are not appropriate for adjusting earnings of mutual life insurance companies under GAAP. 2. Adjusted earnings developed by using statutory net level premium reserves together with a nonadmitted asset equal to the present value of unamortized variable acquisition expenses, and, if material, possibly with the reserves for terminal dividends, should bc accepted under GAAP, provided that dividend scales are suitably designed. 3. Other approaches which are essentially equivalent to that in bullet #2, such as those involving historical asset share funds, should likewise be acceptable.

Description: This session from the 1994 Valuation Actuary Symposium covers GAAP issues and fair value financial reporting including the topics of FAS 115, fair valuation of liabilities, purchase-GAAP accounting and GAAP for mutuals.

Description: This session from the 1993 Valuation Actuary Symposium covers emerging GAAP issues including market value accounting and the impact on the company, management information, FAS 97, FAS 115, FAS 107 and FAS 114, recent development in GAAP for mutuals, cash flow testing for reviewing GAAP reserve adequacy and purchase accounting.

Description: Spreadsheets that define the examples shown in Chapter 10 of the US GAAP for Life Insurers showing GAAP accounting developmetn and profits for individual health and disability insurances. Please see the book US GAAP for Life Insurers for more details on US GAAP accounting.

Description: The latest draft ORSA Guidance Manual was released on Oct. 14, 2011. An overview of the requirements from a qualitative, quantitative and governance perspective was provided in the December edition of the Financial Reporter. Several trade associations and com- panies commented on the draft.

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: This paper discusses three methods for the amortization of deferred acquisition expenses, DAC and the results when actual experience differs significantly from that assumed. The methods include a static approach with prescheduled amortization, a dynamic technique called the expense reserve factor method, and an aggregate or accumulated premium revenue method. A discussion follows the paper. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1978, Vol. 30.