Implications of European Directives in the Assessment of Insurance Companies

• Main Author: Ionel BOSTAN
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: General Association of Economists from Romania 2011-03-01
• Series: Theoretical and Applied Economics
• Subjects: incoherent evaluation; insurance contract; risks; assets/liabilities; balance sheet
• Online Access: http://store.ectap.ro/articole/576.pdf

The objective of this paper is to present a vision in the sphere of the problematic of assets and liabilities’ evaluation that are reflected in the balance sheet of the insurance companies, inside the theory of the contingent claims, and of the marginal theory inside the insurance sphere. Our references take into consideration all the principles and evaluation norms of a company’s liabilities, company operating in the life insurance domain, including the general request introduced by the IFRS. Also, we argument the fact that the making of the new IFRS standards’ frame must take into consideration the accelerated globalization of the trading and the internalization of the financial markets, factors that have made pass onto the first place the necessity of a standardized financial reporting system. Because for so long the evaluating inadequacy of the assets at their fair value and the liabilities at their fair cost has persisted for so long, we underline that we find even in this a vast debate subject between the insurance companies’ representatives and the IASB, especially in the second step of the IFRS4’s implementation in the life insurance contract.