Valuation and Surplus


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Originally published in 1932, this book aims to bridge the gap between the mathematics of life contingencies and the practical problems of Life Office Valuations.










The Logic of Capital


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An accessible, rigorous presentation of Marx's argument in the three volumes of Capital and of longstanding debates in Marxist economics.







Valuation of Liabilites and Distribution of Surplus


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Excerpt from Valuation of Liabilites and Distribution of Surplus: Notes, Papers and Discussion Arranged by the Institute of Actuaries Students' Society It is also worth while to work out from these tables and the Board of Trade returns the effect on the reserves and surplus of different offices of (a) a large increase in new business and consequent increase in expenses; or, (b) a change in the rate Of interest earned; or (c) a change in the rates of premium charged; or (d) a loss on investments. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.




VALUATION OF LIABILITES & DIST


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Clean Surplus


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First published in 1996. The relationship between the present discounted value of future cash flows and discounted excess earnings should be viewed as a mathematical property of a double-entry book[1]keeping system based on clean surplus. The purpose of this anthology is to facilitate future research by highlighting these historical developments and by showing how more recent theoretical and empirical research fits into the earlier history. The book is divided into four sections: historical overview; analytical properties of clean surplus; the theory of the clean surplus equation; and empirical implications.