Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Vancouver Meeting discusses GAAP topics including purchase accounting, UL, deferred acquisition costs and others. The value of interim earnings reports and statutory issues are also examined. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 9, No. 3.

Description: This panel discussion, presented at the SOA's May 1976 Meeting in Houston, presented trends in GAAP and statuatory financial statements. Topics included: actuarial certifications, GAAP for participating insurance, GAAP for mutual companies, amortizing acquisition expenses, apropriate surplus levels, asset valuation, and materiality. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1976, Volume 2, No. 2.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session is about FAS 107, FAS 115, RBC and AVR/IMR versus MSVR.

Description: This 1978 presentation discusses the recommendation made by the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants to move to a GAAP basis for reporting for life insurance companies. The primary purposes would be to report earnings on a going concern basis, rather than on a basis dominated by solvency considerations, and to promote improved comparability of reported financial results among companies.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Salt Lake City Meeting examines financial reporting for new generation life and annuity products, such as universal life, single premium deferred annuities SPDA's, and flexible premium annuities. Topics include statutory and GAAP reporting, NAIC proposed regulation for UL, management reporting and accounting treatment of rollovers and replacements.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session discussion is about reinsurance accounting for life and health insurers. It covers both statutory developments and GAAP developments. Topics included: 1. NAIC model regulation and some of the specific state issues. 2. FAS 113, reinsurance accounting under GAAP accounting principles. 3. Fronting issues. 4. Disclosure reporting. 5. The role of reinsurance as one of several financial and capital management solutions available to insurance companies. 6. Business applications that flow out of the current accounting developments

Description: From the Record 1977 Vol. 3, No. 1, this presentation is from a concurrent session at the Society of Actuaries 1977 Regional Meeting, held in Atlanta March 31-April 1. The presenters discuss various measures of financial results, including net income and surplus, and explore treatment of federal income tax, investment income, expenses, and generally accepted accounting principles, ‘GAAP.’ Planning, projecting, monitoring, and effective use of financial measurements are discussed.