A Reliable Fair Value for Insurance Contracts

Stefan Engeländer () and Joachim Kölschbach
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Stefan Engeländer: KPMG Deutsche Treuhandgesellschaft
Joachim Kölschbach: KPMG Deutsche Treuhandgesellschaft

The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, 2006, vol. 31, issue 3, No 11, 512-527

Abstract: Abstract In 1997, the IASC (predecessor of today's International Accounting Standards Board – IASB) started a project on accounting for insurance contracts. At the end of 2001 and beginning of 2002, it published a Draft Statement of Principles (DSOP) for an International Financial Reporting Standard Insurance Contracts. This proposal was based on a fair value accounting on assets and liabilities arising from insurance contracts. Whereas a fair value is relatively easily applicable for financial instruments that are traded at active markets, the key problem for the measurement of insurance contracts is that there do not exist active markets. The proposal for a full fair value accounting for insurance entities did therefore not find a broad acceptance in the insurance industry. The IASB has now re-started the discussion of an International Financial Reporting Standard Insurance Contracts replacing the interim solution of IFRS 4.

Keywords: international financial reporting standards; fair value accounting; insurance contract project phase II; range approach (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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