Description: From a session at the 2002 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, September 19–20, 2002 This open forum addresses current issues of interest to actuaries in the application of U.S. GAAP. Topics discussed include demutualization issues, draft standards of practice regarding nontraditional long-duration contracts, guaranteed minimum death benefits/living benefits, sales inducements, separate accounts, business combinations and FAS 141/142 and policy conversions and exchanges. Discussion included theoretical and practical aspects.

Description: Panelists provide updates on: [1] NAIC activities on statutory reporting and accounting changes, [2] new FASB Statements 94, 95, 96, and 97, and [3] one firm's experiences implementing these changes. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 3.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Salt Lake City Meeting focuses on the FASB Discussion Memorandum regarding the accounting of pension and other post-employment benefits. It includes an update on any FASB action and then considers the responsibilities of accountants, plan sponsors and actuaries.

Description: We will determine the role of risk function in evaluating operational risks associated with the implementation of LDTI and any system conversions. Are all models validated by the risk function before they are productionalized and results used by management to make business decisions? Does the risk function play a part in to assist finance, actuarial and investor relations in communicating changes and volatility resulting from LDTI? If not, should it? We will articulate the role that risk functions play in being part of large transformation from the start as a stakeholder/input provider to subsequently being an independent reviewer (i.e., second Line of defense).

Description: This meeting session, which occurred at the June 1980 SOA meeting in San Deigo, covered issues related to Financial Accounting Standards Board FASB disclosure, accounting and reporting for pension plans. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 6, No. 3.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA New York City Meeting discusses Financial Accounting Standard FAS 115, a company's FLUX score and how it is calculated, the valuation actuary, how to manage off-balance-sheet assets, and how to manage risk-based capital RBC. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 2.

Description: This session from the 1994 Valuation Actuary Symposium discusses FASB including that FASB is the designated organization in the private sector for establishing standards of financial reporting and accounting. It also covers the organization and how the FASB process works.

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.

Description: This panel discussion is about portretirement benefits other than pensions. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 17, No. 4A.