Description: This session from the 2005 SOA Spring Meeting discusses SOP 03-1, DAC on internal replacements and Sarbanes-Oxley - SOX Section 404. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 31, No. 1. Session 70F

Description: Participants [panelists and audience] discuss the lessons learned from implementation of the AICPA’s Statement of Position [SOP] 03-1, Accounting and Reporting by Insurance Enterprises for Certain Nontraditional Long-Duration Contracts and for Separate Accounts, in particular: reserves for guaranteed minimum death and annuitization benefits on variable annuities, implications for DAC amortization, accounting for sales inducements, application to universal life contracts, and variations in practice. Session 17OF of the 2005 Valuation Actuary Symposium.