Accounting and Financial Reporting in Life and Health Insurance Companies

Accounting and Financial Reporting in Life and Health Insurance Companies. Elizabeth A. Mulligan and Gene Stone. LOMA, 2300 Windy Ridge Parkway, Suite 600, Atlanta, GA 30339-8443 pp700 $68.00.

This text is very thorough, well-written, and makes learning some difficult topics easy. It provides an overview and serves as a source of detailed information for both financial and management accounting. A student who reads this text carefully will understand any of the terms and discussions likely to be encountered in the workplace and can use this text as a reference document to gain expertise. In situations in which expert learning is clearly beyond the scope of the book, references for more detailed learning are provided.

The authors use a very structured building block approach. At the beginning, the structure of the text is clarified. Financial accounting is covered first. Chapters 1 through 6 provide an overview of the financial...