IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts
IFRS 17 sets principles for recognition, measurement, presentation, and disclosure of insurance contracts and replaces IFRS 4.
What the authority record establishes
IFRS 17 sets principles for recognition, measurement, presentation, and disclosure of insurance contracts and replaces IFRS 4.
Binding where IFRS reporting requirements apply
The exact official title, issuing body, jurisdiction, version or application record, and linked source define the scope of this page. Readers should not transfer the authority's status to a commercial product or infer transaction-, patient-, system-, site-, or organization-specific applicability from this summary.
Why it matters to this market
Policy, claims, actuarial, subledger, data, and reporting architecture must preserve contract groups, cash flows, service, financial states, assumptions, movements, and reconciliations required by the reporting design.
Affected operating stages
- Contract Identification
- Grouping
- Measurement
- Service Result
- Finance Result
- Disclosure
- Transition
Capabilities to examine
Insurance Product Configuration And Version Control
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for insurance product configuration and version control.
Policy Administration And Policy Lifecycle Control
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for policy administration and policy lifecycle control.
Premium Billing Invoicing And Receivables
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for premium billing invoicing and receivables.
Payments Disbursements And Reconciliation
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for payments disbursements and reconciliation.
Reserve Exposure And Financial Control
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for reserve exposure and financial control.
Life Annuity And Long-Duration Contract Administration
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for life annuity and long-duration contract administration.
Insurance Data Model Quality And Governance
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for insurance data model quality and governance.
API Event And Ecosystem Integration
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for API event and ecosystem integration.
Operational Financial And Regulatory Reporting
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for operational financial and regulatory reporting.
Audit Trail Reason Code And Decision Reconstruction
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for audit trail reason code and decision reconstruction.
Affected buyer audiences
- finance
- actuarial
- life and general insurance
- data
- technology
Implementation questions
- Which entities, products, populations, transactions, systems, sites, or jurisdictions are actually within scope?
- What is binding, what is guidance, and what is a technical or consensus standard?
- Which publication, adoption, effective, application, transition, and enforcement dates differ?
- Who owns legal, clinical, quality, regulatory, policy, or operational interpretation?
- How will a source revision affect open work and historical decisions?
Interpretation boundary
The publication does not provide accounting interpretation, determine scope or measurement, or establish that a technology configuration produces compliant reporting.