This thesis deals with phase II of IFRS 4 Insurance contracts. The aim of the standard is to establish the principles that an entity should apply to report useful information to users of its financial statements about the nature, amount, timing and uncertainty of cash flows from insurance contracts, so that the financial statements of the entity are comparable with financial statements of other entities. Therefore IASB introduced building blocks measurement model, where an insurance contract is measured based on the present value of expected fulfillment cash flows, risk margin and contractual service margin. The building blocks model is based on making extensive judgments when measuring the insurance contracts. To explain the judgments, the standard requires the entity to disclose details about the judgments in the footnotes to the financial statements. The building blocks model is used mainly for life insurance contracts. For contracts that last one year or less (usually non-life insurance contracts) the standard allows the entities to use a simplified approach for measuring insurance contracts that is similar as the current practice of measuring non-life insurance contracts. Revenues from insurance contracts should depict the transfer of promised services arising from the insurance contract in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the entity expects to be entitled in exchange for those services (this approach is in line with the prepared IFRS 15 Revenue from Contracts with Customers).

The thesis deals with a valuation of solvency balance sheet according to rules set in directive Solvency II, which should have been implemented as of January 1st, and compares the solvency balance sheet with valuation of insurance companies balance sheet according to current Czech legislation and international financial reporting standards IFRS. The thesis defines the concept of insurance contracts both in Czech law and standard IFRS 4 and reporting of liabilities related to those contracts in balance sheet. The result of thesis is illustrated sample of solvency balance sheet including description of how prepare and evaluate it based on default balance sheet prepared according to Czech law.

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Thesis deals with harmonization of financial reporting in the area of insurance contracts. IFRS 4 phase I adjusts reporting of insurance contracts, defines a term insurance contract, bans generating catastrophe provisions or equalisation provisions, show a new view at reporting of insurance contract with discretionary participation feature and at reporting embedded derivates.IFRS 4 phase II solves complex reporting of insurance contracts. The aim is to achieve "real" measurement of liabilities arising from insurance contracts. The thesis shows a measurement model form exposure draft.

This research assesses the IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts standard from a mathematical and actuarial point of view. Specifically, a valuation model that complies with the standard is developed in order to investigate implications of the standard on financial statements of insurance companies. This includes a deep insight into the standard, construction a valuation model of a fictive traditional life insurance product and an investigation of the outcomes of the model. The findings show firstly that an investment strategy favorable for valuing insurance contracts according to the standard may conflict with the Asset & Liability Management of the firm. Secondly, that a low risk adjustment increases the contractual service margin (CSM) and hence the possibility of smoothing profits over time. Thirdly, that the policy for releasing the CSM should take both risk-neutral and real assumptions into account. / I denna rapport ansätts redovisningsstandarden IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts utifrån ett matematiskt och aktuariellt perspektiv. En värderingsmodell som överensstämmer med standarden konstrueras för att undersöka standardens implikationer på ett försäkringsbolags resultaträkning. Detta inkluderar en fördjupning i standarden, konstruktion och modellering av en fiktiv traditionell livförsäkringsprodukt samt undersökning av resultaten från modellen. Resultaten visar att det finns en möjlig konflikt mellan investeringsstrategier som är gynnsamma med avseende på värdering enligt standarden och ett försäkringsbolags tillgångs- och skuldförvaltning. Vidare leder en låg riskjustering till en högre avtalsmässig servicemarginal (CSM) vilket ökar möjligheten att utjämna vinster över tid. Slutligen bör policyn för hur CSM frisläpps beakta både risk-neutrala och verkliga antaganden.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:29:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Inaldo Bezerra Silva Junior.pdf: 822899 bytes, checksum: 64d13d7c7e32b7d2c89f44a2cc326f26 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-06-30 / It takes a dissertation study about influences of social function on insurance contracts. The contracts' social function depends on orientations, principles, rules and fundamental values of Constituição de 1988 and expressively foreseen on the Código Civil de 2002 as general clause. The general clauses are composed by a legislative method expressed by a great variety of rules that undertakes to its application several hypotheses. It searches for the social function concept through comparison of constitutional rules which sense are given as well as historical evolution of the insurance contract. In this way, the contracts' social function content is related to economic function of the same instrument, undertaking the parts interests to the social interest of mutuality preservation. This new order is inserted in a tendency of will autonomy limitation instead social interests. On this context, the insurance contract is gone through to surprise what reflexes of contracts' social function in the insurance juridical system. It will be done the exam of the insurance contract historical origin and its technical basis. The mutualism reveals an undefined number of people under the same risk, what shows the submission of individual interests of every insured to the group interest, revealing the solidarity of taking apart the risks besides proving a deep relation between the insurance and social function / Cuidará a dissertação do estudo sobre influências da função social nos contratos de seguro. A função social dos contratos é decorrência de diretrizes, princípios, normas e valores fundamentais da Constituição de 1988 e expressamente prevista no Código Civil de 2002 como cláusula geral. As cláusulas gerais se constituem em um método legislativo pelo qual se expressam por normas de grande generalidade que submetem à sua aplicação variadas hipóteses. Busca-se o conceito de função social através do confronto das normas constitucionais que lhe dão fundamento e da evolução histórica dos contratos e do próprio contrato de seguro. Nesse sentido, o conteúdo da função social dos contratos esta relacionado com a função econômica do mesmo instrumento, submetendo o interesse das partes ao interesse social de preservação da mutualidade. Essa nova ordem se insere em uma tendência de limitação da autonomia da vontade em função de interesses sociais. Nesse contexto o contrato de seguro é examinado para entender quais os reflexos da função social dos contratos no regime jurídico do seguro. Proceder-se-á ao exame da origem histórica do contrato de seguro e de suas bases técnicas. O mutualismo revela a presença de um número indeterminado de pessoas sujeitas ao mesmo risco, característica que demonstra a submissão dos interesses individuais de cada segurado ao interesse do grupo, o que revela a solidariedade na repartição dos riscos e comprova uma intima relação entre o seguro e a função social

This thesis is dedicated to the newly proposed International Financial Reporting Standard IFRS 4 - Insurance contracts, lists and describes the most important points of the standard in the first and the second phase of the project. The first phase of the project establishes the definition of insurance contracts and other essential concepts. The first phase of the insurance contract provides only a temporary solution for measuring and reporting of insurance contracts until approved and adopted the final draft standard from the second phase. The second phase of the project proposes a new valuation model for insurance contracts based on four pillars, introduces new requirements for disclosure in the financial statements and presentation of financial statements.

An insurance contract is a contract of utmost good faith. The nature of the insurance bargain makes the duty a commercial necessity. Duties of disclosure and representation, which were two fundamental components of the principle of utmost good faith, operate in different ways in England and China. The insured and insurer in these two countries bears distinctive good faith related obligations pre- and post-contractually. English insurance law exercise considerable influence in most common law countries and some civil law jurisdictions. The separation between utmost good faith and the duty of fair presentation, with the abolition of the avoidance remedy, under the Insurance Act 2015 could influence other jurisdictions to alter their remedies. This thesis examines the application of the civil law notion of good faith and the common law duty of utmost good faith. It covers the operation of insured’s pre-contractual duties of disclosure and representation in both countries. The thesis considers the insurer’s duties as well as the continuing duties and the effect of utmost good faith taking in account the recent legislative changes on fraudulent claims and late payment. The thesis further examines the legal status of brokers and their disclosure duty in China and England. Finally, it also provides special considerations on consumers and micro-businesses.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T18:39:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Victor Hugo Cesar Bagnati.pdf: 1219433 bytes, checksum: b1d30c6fdd4234bf373df016384348e4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-05-17 / The purpose of this paper is to analyze the changes in IFRS4 as proposed by IASB and to make a contribution in the discussions about the challenges for implementing it in Brazil. An insurance company is a financial entity, picking up, in advance, resources from the public against future guarantee. On the other side, similar risks affecting banks also threatens insurance companies. Due to the role of banking activities in the economy, operational and solvency rules were established for financial entities based on enterprise risk management approach, there are the rules of Basel I and II. Similar requirements guided the insurance market, the so called Solvency I and II. At the same time, international organizations have been up-dating the accounting principles and the financial reports to the new dynamic and new financial instruments, so in 2008, the IASB published the consolidated standards, IFRS, including rules for insurance contracts accounting. Actions already taken and forthcoming are implemented in world scale, no more solely in one country, is the globalization of accounting principles. The implementation of IRFS4 has also other advantages as to facilitate the comparison of financial situation between Brazilian companies and also to other markets. The Brazilian Commissioner SUSEP, had been following the international practice, introducing them, gradually, in the Brazilian Insurance Market. According the opinions of specialist in these matters, recently interviewed, and as result of the interpretation of their comments, the new rules will, no doubt, will impact in company reporting both from the qualitative and quantitative points of view. About the qualitative side, are strong expectations that future financial reports, prepared under new accounting rules allows the users of the information to clearly understand the type of risks underwrites by the entities. While, from the quantitative side, valuation of assets and liabilities, based on concepts of fair value and present value of future cash flows, will impact in the calculation of the net worth, and consequently in the solvency of the entity. If the new accounting rules for insurance contracts issued by SUSEP, following most of the CPC11, demonstrates the difficulties to implement some concepts, as an example, the reporting of reinsurance operations, surely, the phase II of IFRS4 will bring to the market more troubles. On the other side, according the same experts, to achieve satisfactory results it will be necessary that, both actuaries and accountants, working hard together, in order to understand and apply the accounting rules in a correct way / O presente trabalho tem por objetivos analisar a proposta do IASB de alteração do pronunciamento IFRS4 e contribuir para a discussão dos principais desafios para a sua aplicação no Brasil. Uma entidade seguradora é uma instituição financeira, captando recursos dos clientes em troca de uma garantia futura, de modo que, essas entidades estão sujeitas a riscos semelhantes aos que ameaçam os bancos. Devido à importância da atividade bancária na economia foram estabelecidas normas operacionais e de solvência para essas entidades, com foco na gestão de riscos (ERM), são as chamadas regras Basiléia I e II. As seguradoras são alcançadas por regras similares: Solvência I e II. Em paralelo, os órgãos contábeis internacionais foram adaptando os princípios e as demonstrações à nova dinâmica do mercado e aos novos instrumentos financeiros, assim sendo, em 2008, o IASB publica o texto consolidado das IFRS, com regras para contabilização dos contratos de seguros, dentre outros itens. Todas as ações realizadas e as que estão por vir o são em escala mundial, já não mais são exclusivamente de um país ou realizadas de forma isolada: é a globalização da informação contábil. É claro que a adoção pelo Brasil das regras IFRS, facilitará a comparação da situação patrimonial e dos resultados não só entre as entidades locais, como também com outros mercados seguradores. No mercado segurador brasileiro, a Superintendência de Seguros Privados vem acompanhando as normas internacionais, incorporando-as, gradualmente, às práticas locais. Como é evidenciado através da pesquisa realizada, e com mais clareza, pela leitura e interpretação das entrevistas com especialistas nesta matéria, as novas regras terão, sem dúvida, impacto significativo nas demonstrações contábeis tanto do ponto de vista qualitativo quanto do ponto de vista quantitativo. No que diz respeito a qualidade, a expectativa é que as futuras demonstrações contábeis sejam mais esclarecedoras para os usuários dessa informação, no que diz respeito a divulgação dos riscos assumidos pelas entidades. Pelo lado quantitativo, a avaliação dos ativos financeiros e dos passivos da operação, com base no valor justo e o valor presente dos fluxos futuros, impactarão no patrimônio líquido das entidades e consequentemente na determinação da sua solvência. Se a norma contábil da Superintendência, que adota grande parte do pronunciamento CPC nº 11, sobre contratos de seguros, cujo cumprimento é exigido a partir de 2011, mostrou as dificuldades da aplicação de alguns conceitos, como por exemplo, o da apresentação da operação de resseguro, imagina-se que a futura norma, provavelmente bem próxima ao IFRS4 (fase II) vai trazer maiores dificuldades. Entretanto, em opinião dos especialistas que participaram das entrevistas, para alcançar resultados satisfatórios, será necessário que atuários e contadores se preparem de forma coordenada, no intuito de poder interpreta-las e aplica-las corretamente

Les règles de conflit de lois insérées dans les directives communautaires relatives à l'exercice des activités d'assurance offrent un exemple unique de règles de conflit étroitement associées aux objectifs du marché intérieur. L'examen de ces règles de droit positif insérées dans les directives révèle les orientations que le droit communautaire donne aux règles de droit international privé lorsque celles-ci sont perçues comme un enjeu du marché intérieur. Au plan de la théorie générale du droit international privé, ces règles de conflit rompent nettement avec le principe de neutralité de la règle de rattachement. Loin de se désintéresser du résultat atteint par l'application du droit désigné, elles intègrent au contraire des objectifs de droit matériel relevant tantôt de la nécessité d'intégration des marchés, tantôt des besoins de protection des assurés. Participant à l'achèvement du marché intérieur, ces règles s'inscrivent nécessairement dans une logique communautaire où les exigences de la libre circulation s'opposent à la nécessité de sauvegarder des intérêts généraux considérés comme légitimes, telle la protection des consommateurs. Transposée en droit international privé, cette tension constante entre deux objectifs contradictoires revient à opposer les mérites d'un rattachement fondé sur le libre choix de la loi applicable ou sur le lieu d'établissement de l'assureur, et ceux d'un rattachement à finalité protectrice basé sur la localisation du risque ou la résidence habituelle de l'assuré.