Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. Discusses current financial reporting topics related to both group and individual health insurance, including: Standards of practice for health actuaries, Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 DEFRA, Qualifications for health certification, Internal management reporting needs, New state reporting requirements.

Description: From the 1986 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held in Washington DC in October 1986 Valuation Actuary Symposium Proceedings is the Canadian session on a report of the status of the Solvency Committee Report.

Description: From a session at the Spring meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Antonio, Texas, June 14-15, 2004 This session addressed aspects of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, including a discussion of the history and purpose of the act, processes of compliance and their documentation, identification of key controls and testing for key control effectiveness.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This session looks at the impact of regulation on the management of insurance operations in Asia, with a particular focus on Japan, which this year 1996 introduced its first major insurance law revision in 50 years.

Description: Digests of following discussions: 1. Mutual life insurance companies - their objectives and operating philosophy 2. State, provincial, and municipal employee pension plans - financing and other problems 3. Mortality and underwriting of individual policies for large amounts 4. Investing during the 1970's 5. Long-range viability and regulation of corporate pension plans 6. Forecasting the environment for business 7. Liabilities and surplus in the 1970's 8. Changing modes of family life - work and income over the life cycle 9. The role of the actuary in collective bargaining 10. Health insurance in the United States 11. Adjusted earnings

Description: Presented at June 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about an update on various committee activities and interests in the US and Canada, and a review of the status of specialized topics such as nonforfeiture and reserve standards, GAAP, valuation actuary, and UL reporting.

Description: Presented at October 19895 Annual Meeting. This session is about statutory, GAAP and management reporting for new life insurance and annuity products and nontraditional distribution systems.

Description: Presentations and discussions at Symposium on Adjusted Earnings in 1971. Discusses: 1. The differences between insurance industry accounting and accounting for other types of businesses, and the need to adequately communicate the reasons for these differences to the accounting profession 2. Background on problem of reported earnings - diminishment of focus on the balance sheet 3. Uses and objectives of financial statements 4. Philosophy of matching costs and revenues in GAAP reporting 5. Responses to the AICPA draft of an audit guide for life insurance companies 6. Deferred tax considerations

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: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. Attendees learn of recent financial reporting activity, including Actuarial Guideline MMMM, the new AICPA Standard Of Practice 'SOP' on Non-Traditional contracts, a new SOP on internal replacements, and treatment of annuities under proposed international accounting standards.