Book Description

This book is intended to fill a gap between too much information and too little. It is designed to give someone new to Insurance Accounting a comprehensive overview of the entire insurance accounting and NAIC Filing process. You can certainly get into more detail on specific insurance accounting issues but having a comprehensive overview will help new employees speed up their training and jumpstart their insurance accounting careers. Insurance Accounting explains Basic Accounting, how to journalize transactions, pull a Trial Balance from the General Ledger and compile Financial Statements. It also covers Investment Accounting explaining amortization schedules, basic investment accounting and valuation of securities like TIPS and Mortgage Backed bonds. The book also teaches you about Policy Reserves, Premium Reserves, Claims Reserves, Reinsurance and other STAT and GAAP concepts.