Description: This article discusses how statutory financials would differ from a reasonable GAAP for a mutual company's structure, if the latter were ever imposed.

Description: This paper documents how mutual company surplus is determined and shown in a GAAP statement, including supplementary information, and offers how such reports could caption this item more appropriately.

Description: New GAAP Guidance Likely to Be Promulgated for Non- Traditional Products and Separate Accounts by David C. Scheinerman and Mary S. Saslow from The Financial Reporter, September 2001, Issue No. 47

Description: The American Academy of Actuaries identified two general approaches to the purchase accounting problem in its Interpretation I-D. The approaches are referred to therein as the defined initial reserve method and the defined valuation premium method, and the Interpretation does not show favoritism toward one or the other. This paper submits a 'best' method, arrived at through the following steps: 1. The purchase accounting problem is defined, 2. The effects of the defined initial reserve method and the defined valuation premium method on the ensuing profit projection and resulting balance sheet are examined, and 3. One method is shown to be the most consistent mechanically and most consistent with generally accepted accounting principles 'GAAP'. Finally, this paper discusses a few of the considerations in setting the actuarial assumptions to be used for purchase accounting. The task is slightly less difficult when using the method suggested as best. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1982, Vol. 34.

Description: In 2018, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) adopted significant revisions to the U.S. GAAP insurance accounting literature, via Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2018-12. The title of ASU 2018-12 is “Targeted Improvements to the Accounting for Long-Duration Contracts,” and as a result a common acronym for ASU 2018-12 is LDTI (long-duration targeted improvements).

Description: Panelists for this session 40OF of the Montreal Spring Meeting discuss some of the situations in which U.S. GAAP accounting for life insurance companies has international implications.

Description: This session of the 1990 Valuation Actuary Symposium discusses several issues. First, the recoverability of the deferred policy acquisition cost DPAC asset from future revenues. Second, the allocation of mortality, expenses and investment income to the lines of business. Third, treatment of non-deferrable expenses and fourth, unlocking under FAS97 accounting.

Description: Describes at a high level an outdated GAAP method for determining deferred tax accounting.

Description: Feature article discussing deferred policy acquisition costs and recent proposed changes to the expenses allowed to be deferred.

Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Francisco. This session used a case study that outlined the various considerations that arise in a GAAP for mutual project.