West Virginia Code 33-33-4 – Contents of annual audited financial report
(a) The annual audited financial report shall report the financial condition of the insurer as of the end of the most recent calendar year and the results of its operations, cash flows and changes in capital and surplus for the year then ended in conformity with statutory accounting practices prescribed, or otherwise permitted, by the Insurance Commissioner of the state of domicile.
Terms Used In West Virginia Code 33-33-4
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- Audited financial report: means and includes those items specified in section four of this article. See West Virginia Code 33-33-2
- independent certified public accountant: means an independent certified public accountant or accounting firm in good standing with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and in all states in which the accountant is licensed to practice. See West Virginia Code 33-33-2
- Insurer: means any domestic insurer as defined in section six, article one of this chapter and includes any domestic stock insurance company, mutual insurance company, reciprocal insurance company, farmers" mutual fire insurance company, fraternal benefit society, hospital service corporation, medical service corporation, health care corporation, health maintenance organization, captive insurance company or risk retention group and any licensed foreign or alien insurer defined in article one of this chapter. See West Virginia Code 33-33-2
- Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
- State: when applied to a part of the United States and not restricted by the context, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories, and the words "United States" also include the said district and territories. See West Virginia Code 2-2-10
(b) The annual audited financial report shall include the following:
(1) Report of independent certified public accountant;
(2) Balance sheet reporting admitted assets, liabilities, capital and surplus;
(3) Statement of operations;
(4) Statement of cash flow;
(5) Statement of changes in capital and surplus;
(6) Notes to financial statements. These notes shall be those required by the appropriate National Association of Insurance Commissioners annual statement instructions and accounting practices and procedures manual, as amended, including reconciliation differences, if any, between the audited statutory financial statements and the annual statement filed pursuant to section fourteen, article four of this chapter, with a written description of the nature of these differences; and
(7) The financial statements included in the audited financial report shall be prepared in a form and using language and groupings substantially the same as the relevant sections of the annual statement of the insurer filed with the commissioner, and
The financial statement shall be comparative, presenting the amounts as of December 31 of the current year and the amounts as of the immediately preceding December 31. However, in the first year in which an insurer is required to file an audited financial report, the comparative data may be omitted.