Notice to Recipients of This Staff Draft of an Accounting Standards Update on Financial Services - Insurance (Topic 944)

The objective of this Update is to address diversity in practice regarding the interpretation of which costs relating to the acquisition of new or renewal insurance contracts qualify for deferral. The current definition of acquisition costs in the Master Glossary of the FASB Accounting Standards CodificationTM is “costs that vary with and are primarily related to the acquisition of insurance contracts”.