Description: Feature article discussing the International Accounting Standards Board’s insurance contracts project.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Hartford Spring Meeting presents and overview of financial reporting concepts and issues in the U.K., Spain, and the Far East.

Description: In session 148PD of the Washungton Annual Meeting the Panel discusses changes in current accounting practices and identifies issues that might directly impact actuaries. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: Now that foreign filers can use the IFRS as their basis for financial reporting without any reconciliations to US GAAP, it is now important to stay abreast of international financial regulatory developments. This article discusses one of the most important developments - the issuance of the Discussion Paper, Preliminary Views on Insurance Contracts by the IASB.

Description: Feature article describing the saga of the IASB’s and FASB’s joint Exposure Draft on Insurance Contracts.

Description: The authors explore major points of the exposure draft (ED) of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). At the same time, they explain the differences between the FASB ED and the ED published nearly simultaneously by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB).

Description: Article discussing insurance accounting developments from October - December2008.

Description: This article reviews the developments with the Financial Accounting Standards Board, FASB, and the International Accounting Standards Board, IASB, in the third quarter of 2011. Issues discussed include disclosures and risk adjustment for reserves and insurance liabilities including objective and confidence level disclosure and techniques and inputs.

Description: A discussion about international financial regulatory developments, which included fair value accounting, solvency modernization and Contract Fulfillment Value as a measurement attribute for insurance contracts.

Description: Just about everything that took place on the international front this quarter was influenced to some degree by the subprime crisis. Article discusses April - June developments in the creation of fair value accounting regulations, which progresses in spite of concerns that using a fair value accounting basis for financial instruments lacking a deep trading market makes does not make sense.