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  • Financial Reporting Section News March 2012
    service contracts that provide service as their primary purpose, and that meet all of the following criteria: ... benefits, including participating features, and direct expenses, including acquisition costs. Inflows ...

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    • Date: Mar 2012
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS]
  • Setting Ascribed Premiums for Market Risk Benefits under FASB Targeted Improvements
    Contract: The contract holder has the ability to direct funds to one or more separate account investment ... Avoiding a GAAP equity restatement may be the primary con- sideration because many companies use return ...

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    • Authors: Shaowei Yang, David Ruiz
    • Date: Jun 2017
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Fair value accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
  • Purchase GAAP for Equity-Indexed Annuities
    derivatives at issue. This guidance is very helpful for direct writers because the basis of the hybrid contract ... being comparable with the practice used by the direct writer, reinsurance premium can be used as the ...

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    • Authors: Vincent Y Y Tsang
    • Date: Jun 2003
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
  • Embedded Derivatives in Modco and Similar Reinsurance Arrangements
    withheld liability” equal to the loan balance: Direct Writer Assets Liabilities Invested Assets Reserve ... in zero coupon bonds yielding 4.75 percent. The direct writing company will maintain assets backing the ...

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    • Authors: Richard H Browne
    • Date: Jun 2003
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
  • Hitting the Target: Improvements to U.S. GAAP for Long-Duration Insurance Contracts
    Hitting the Target: Improvements to U.S. GAAP for Long-Duration Insurance Contracts After ... ambiguities remain in the final stan- dard, we should take care to interpret them consistent with the project’s ...

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    • Authors: Steven Malerich
    • Date: Dec 2015
    • Competency: Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view; Strategic Insight and Integration>Influence decisions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
  • AICPA Releases SOP 05-1: Accounting by Insurance Enterprises for Deferred Acquisition Costs in Connection With Modifications or Exchanges of Insurance Contracts
    AICPA Releases SOP 05-1: Accounting by Insurance Enterprises for Deferred Acquisition Costs ... (typically explicit contract exchange programs). The primary issue addressed by the SOP is the treatment of ...

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    • Authors: John Morris
    • Date: Mar 2006
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
  • GAAP Targeted Improvements: Unlocking 2.0
    GAAP Targeted Improvements: Unlocking 2.0 Presents a practical solution to some of the ... guaranteed renewable disability income and long-term care insurance for which a separate “disabled life reserve” ...

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    • Authors: Steven Malerich
    • Date: Dec 2017
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance