Tentative Board Decisions
Tentative Board decisions are provided for those interested in following
the Board's deliberations. All of the reported decisions are tentative and may
be changed at future Board meetings.
February 24, 2016 Board
Meeting
Insurance—targeted
improvements to the accounting for long-duration contracts.
Presentation
The Board made two decisions about the
presentation of market risk benefits:
- The carrying amount should be presented as a separate line item in the
statement of financial position.
- The change in fair value—excluding the portion relating to changes in an
entity's own credit risk—should be reported as a separate line item in the
statement of operations.
Disclosures
Liability
for Future Policy Benefits
The Board decided that entities
should disclose the following about the liability for future policy benefits in
both interim and annual financial statements:
- Disaggregated tabular rollforward of the opening balance to the closing
balance, with separate presentation of expected future net premiums and
expected future benefits
- For each disaggregated rollforward:
- The undiscounted ending balance for both the expected future net
premiums and the expected future benefits
- The amount of gross premiums recorded
- The amount of any related reinsurance recoverable
- Qualitative and quantitative information (which includes the range,
weighted average, and actual experience) about the significant estimates,
inputs, judgments, and assumptions used in measuring the liability,
including how they changed and the effect of the changes on the measurement
of the liability
- A reconciliation of the disaggregated rollforwards to the aggregate ending
carrying amount of the liability, and the total interest and gross premiums
recorded for the period
- Qualitative and quantitative information about adverse development
resulting in the following:
- Net premium ratio exceeding 100 percent
- The establishment of an additional liability for a nontraditional
contract
- For contracts for which the entity did not recognize a liability because
no future losses are expected, qualitative and quantitative information (which
includes the range, weighted average, and actual experience) about the
significant estimates, inputs, judgments, and assumptions used to conclude no
losses are expected.
Liability for Policyholders' Account
Balances
The Board decided that entities should disclose the
following information about the liability for policyholders' account balances in
both interim and annual financial statements:
- Disaggregated tabular rollforward of the opening balance to the closing
balance
- For each disaggregated rollforward presented:
- The weighted-average earned rate and the weighted-average crediting
rate
- Net amount at risk
- Cash surrender value
- A reconciliation of the disaggregated rollforwards to the aggregate ending
carrying amount of the liability
- Tabular presentation of policyholders' account balances by range of
guaranteed minimum crediting rates, and the related range of the difference
between rates being credited to policyholders and the respective guaranteed
minimums
- Qualitative and quantitative information about objectives, policies, and
processes for managing risks.
Market Risk
Benefits
The Board decided that entities should disclose the
following information about market risk benefits in both interim and annual
financial statements:
- Disaggregated tabular rollforward of the opening balance to the closing
balance, disaggregated by type of market risk benefit
- For each disaggregated rollforward presented:
- The related net amount at risk
- Fees collected
- Qualitative and quantitative information (which includes the range,
weighted average, and actual experience) about the significant estimates,
inputs, judgments, and assumptions used in measurement, including how they
changed and the effect of the changes on the measurement
- A reconciliation of the disaggregated rollforwards to the aggregate ending
carrying amount, disaggregated between positions that are in the money and
those that are out of the money
- Qualitative and quantitative information about objectives, policies, and
processes for managing risks arising from market risk
benefits.
Separate Account Liabilities
The
Board decided that entities should disclose the following information about
separate account liabilities in both interim and annual financial statements:
- Disaggregated tabular rollforward of the opening balance to the closing
balance
- For each rollforward presented, the related cash surrender values
- A reconciliation of the rollforwards to the aggregated ending carrying
amount of the liability.
Deferred Acquisition
Costs
The Board decided that entities should disclose a
disaggregated tabular rollforward of the opening balance to the closing balance
of deferred acquisition costs, together with the inputs and assumptions used to
determine amortization, in both interim and annual financial
statements.
Next Steps
The Board will deliberate
transition methods.