Description: This paper was prepared in order to set down some of the approaches which might be followed in carrying out the mandate to apply GAAP to stock life insurance companies. Followed by discussion papers submitted by 2 authors

Description: This paper discusses the principles found in the Academy of Actuaries Committee on Financial Reporting Principles' Recommendation 4, Reinsurance Ceded by Life Insurance Companies and proposes solutions to certain problems of implementation, and identifies items where there might be differences of opinion. Followed by discussion papers submitted by 2 authors

Description: This paper develops a tool that may be useful in explaining the differences between earnings that are reported under GAAP and profits that are expressed as an internal rate of return.

Description: This report was presented at the October 1982 Society of Actuaries annual Meeting in Washington D.C.. It presented supplementary information on the 1979 Build and Blood Pressure Study. This supplementary study was made to answer a number of specific questions raised by medical directors and actuaries of life insurance companies as well as by some prominent physicians and research scientists.

Description: Section 818c of the Life Insurance Company Income Tax Act of 1959 provides, for companies holding other than net level premium reserves, a choice of two methods: exact revaluation or approximate revaluation to this basis. This paper discusses the impact of the choice on the level of a company's tax reserves. A discussion paper follows.