Description: 1992 SOA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. The stated purpose of this session was to discuss specifically how a company can manage and improve its financial performance as measured by the statutory financial statement. Eleven strategies to improve performance were addressed.

Description: In session 128 OF of the Washington Annual Meeting panelists discuss the advantages available to and the challenges faced by chief or corporate actuaries of life insurance companies. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting addresses the actuarial aspects of a purchase including the actuarial appraisal, GAAP reporting, statutory valuation, taxation aspects of completing a sale, and considerations in the purchase of a block of business. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4a.

Description: This presentation is a concurrent session from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held April 18-19 in New Orleans. The panelists discuss cost accounting issues under FASB 97, including definition and treatment of fixed, variable, deferrable, nondeferrable, maintenance and overhead costs, and allocation and recoverability. Intercompany and other expense analyses, including coordination of accounting and actuarial expense statements, and communication to management and use in managing the business are discussed. The panelists also look at measuring and improving productivity. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 1.

Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Tax change, Product line allocation, Stock and mutual company considerations, Generally accepted accounting principles deferred taxes, Accounting for life/life and life/nonlife tax consolidations, Tax sharing agreements among affiliated companies, Reinsurance agreement impact, Conflicts between tax planning and solvency considerations.