Description: Discusses the current status of the valuation actuary concept and regulatory requirements. Also includes historical development of the valuation actuary movement. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 3.

Description: This presentation is an open forum, session 58OF, from the 2004 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 14-15 in San Antonio, TX. The panelists present both theoretical and practical perspectives of the role of assumed asset returns and credit spreads in determining the fair value of policyholder liabilities. They cover financial economics, how other financial service companies value liabilities, what factors go into determining an appropriate discount rate for insurance liabilities, and issues currently being debated by the International Accounting Standards Board [IASB], and the Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 2.

Description: This session presented at the SOA's 1976 Houston Spring Meeting will describe the basic features of Life Insurance GAAP accounting as applied to stock life insurance companies, both from an accountant's and an actuary's point of view.

Description: This session discussion is about the definition of a value-added financial statement, advantages of value-added approach relative to other financial statements, relation of value-added to level-rate-of-return method, treatment of deferrable items and recursive methods of preparing value-added statements. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 2.

Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. Discusses emerging trends worldwide in financial reporting, management, FASB and how to look at a performance management tool.

Description: Panel discussion about GAAP and FASB considerations, and statutory accounting issues. From the 1978 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 4, No. 3.

Description: This panel discussion, which occurred at the May 1982 Society of Actuaries meeting in Colorado Springs, presented a discussion on developments related to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles- GAAP. The discussion included: FASB reformulation of audit guide, treatment of single premium deferred annuities, problems of applying GAAP principles to Universal Life, and a discussion of papers titled: a. A Policy-Year Model for GAAP Valuation of Coinsurance and Modified Coinsuranee, by David N. Becker and Michael V. Eckman and, b. GAAP for Nonguaranteed Premium Life Insurance, by Kriss Cloninger III.