Odomirok.20-IRIS
Reading: Financial Reporting Through the Lens of a Property/Casualty Actuary
Author: Kathleen C. Odomirok, FCAS, MAAA, Liam M. McFarlane, FCIA, FCAS, Gareth L. Kennedy, ACAS, MAAA, Justin J. Brenden, FCAS, MAAA, EY
Study Tip
Chapter 20 from Odomirok is a companion to NAIC.IRIS, but Odomirok doesn't cover any of the IRIS formulas. Instead, it provides a more conceptual discussion of the IRIS ratios.
You can completely skip this chapter but if you're too nervous to do that, use it for bedtime reading. It's only 3 pages and has no formulas. The formulas are discussed in detail in the other IRIS reading NAIC.IRIS.
BattleTable
See NAIC.IRIS for relevant exam problems
- this reading has not been tested on any exam from the year 2012 to Fall 2019 when the exams stopped being published.
- reference - part (a) - part (b) - part (c) - part (d) - no prior questions 
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In Plain English!
| DELETION: The most recent version of the Odomirok source text no longer discusses the "Analyst Team". | 
Everything you need to know about IRIS ratios is in the NAIC.IRIS. The IRIS chapter in Odomirok is very short and has only 1 thing that doesn't seem to be in the NAIC reading.
Odomirok briefly discusses the Analyst Team of financial examiners from all 4 geographic regions of the U.S. They categorize companies into 3 levels according to their IRIS results and other solvency monitoring tools like RBC:
- Level A: requires immediate regulatory attention
- Level B: shows adverse results but doesn't require immediate attention
- Reviewed: no level assigned, and no regulatory attention required.
That's it.
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