Description: In this session 100OF of the New York Annual Meeting panelists discuss the major consequences and potential effects of the current economic environment, including the choices of assumption that actuaries should consider in performing cash-flow testing. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Vancouver Meeting covers the impact on insurance companies from rating, the different rating agencies, the varying processes and information used by the rating agencies and criticism of rating agencies. It also covers information from A.M. Best. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 3b.

Description: Panelists discussed, from the perspective of various countries, the current systems of peer review of an actuary's work relating to financial statements.

Description: At this session 138OF of the New York Annual Meeting panelists provide a brief history of the unified valuation system concept, including objectives, and discuss intended users of the output from the system. A progress report on the proposed valuation law is also presented. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: From session 43TS at the Spring regional meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Atlanta, Georgia, May 24-25, 1999 Presenters discuss the growing pressure, due to the globalization of commerce and industry, for a uniform set of worldwide accounting standards, and the form that these standard are likely to take.

Description: This session from the 2003 SOA Orlando Meeting provides an overview of how insurers, pension plans and other institutional investors measure and report manager performance, the benchmarks used and capital at risk CAR. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 3.

Description: The session from the 2003 SOA Orlando Meeting analyzes statutory and GAAP financial statements, including internal rate of return IRR, return on equity ROE, embedded value, source of earnings analysis, actual versus forecast and trend analysis. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 3.

Description: Discusses 1987 changes for the National Association of Insurance Commissioners [NAIC] Blank, NAIC activities, issues important for Canadian actuaries, update on the Valuation Actuary movement, and a brief update on progress by the Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 13, No. 4A.

Description: This session discussion is about the state of the art for the valuation actuary and the technical developments have occurred that will be useful to valuation actuaries. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 2.

Description: This session discussion is about source of profit analysis for management information, scope of SOP analysis, applications and comparisons to other financial measures. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 2.