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  • This Time is Different!
    the residual (or single) margin for changes in mortality, morbidity and similar non-financial assumptions; ... pre- sentations endorsing the proposal. Around the table there was general agreement that the proposal had ...

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    • Date: Mar 2012
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Strategic Insight and Integration>Strategy development
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS]
  • Industry Preparedness And Impact of FASB Targeted Improvements
    2016, in which it proposed significant changes to U.S. GAAP accounting for long-duration insurance contracts ... via a survey of 14 leading life insurance and annuity producers. In the remainder of this article, we ...

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    • Authors: Craig Reynolds, Karthik Yadatore
    • Date: Sep 2017
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
  • Revenue Recognition, Part 2: Earned Premiums and Experience Deviations
    Revenue Recognition, Part 2: Earned Premiums and Experience Deviations Feature article, ... Accounting Standards Board’s (IASB) and of the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s (FASB) approach to revenue ...

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    • Authors: James Milholland
    • Date: Sep 2012
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Accounting Standards Board [IASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS]
  • FASB COMPLETES DELIBERATIONS ON TARGETED IMPROVEMENTS
    FASB COMPLETES DELIBERATIONS ON TARGETED IMPROVEMENTS Discussion of FASB's June 2018 ... ON TARGETED IMPROVEMENTS Discussion of FASB's June 2018 meeting on accounting for targeted improvements ...

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    • Authors: Leonard Reback
    • Date: Sep 2018
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Leadership>Change management
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
  • Spring Cleaning
    could then display those rates in a simple graph or table that could be easily understood. To facilitate ... significant changes in the kind and degree of mortality risk, morbidity risk or other insur- ance risk ...

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    • Authors: Henry Siegel
    • Date: Jun 2013
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Accounting Standards Board [IASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS]
  • SFAS 157 Adoption Impacts
    accountants in the application of all FASB standards. S tatement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) ... relates to fair value of derivatives embedded in annuity contracts. More specifically, under SFAS 133, ...

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    • Authors: Patricia Matson, Application Administrator
    • Date: Dec 2008
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Fair value accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]
  • Differences Between FASB and IASB Could Lead to Two Accounting Models for Insurance
    the amount paid. Such features are common in many U.S. life insurance contracts, such as non-variable ... and this treatment may also be applicable to such U.S. contracts as variable life and annuities or closed ...

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    • Date: Mar 2012
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Accounting Standards Board [IASB]
  • FASB & IASB Divergence
    FASB & IASB Divergence FASB decisions made regarding potential changes to US ... long-duration contracts. Actuaries whose work involves both U.S. business and business outside the United States ...

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    • Authors: Leonard Reback
    • Date: Jun 2014
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
  • Convergence Once Again
    really so important that compromise was impossible. Table 1 identifies the four major issues that the boards ... 10 percent), and if we had to return to includ- Table 1: Major Outstanding Disagreements Between IASB ...

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    • Authors: Henry Siegel
    • Date: Sep 2012
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Accounting Standards Board [IASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS]