The Christmas period has been typically busy with crazy amounts of work whilst preparing for year end and trying to fit in as many social events as possible.
The first set of Actuarial Students' exam results were published last week with more to come next week, there's lots of excitement, and also the feeling that excuses to postpone study have now run out. (I've got some extra exciting Christmas holiday reading material this year – Statistical Methods – can't wait!)
This morning I'm back to reading up on ICA so that I can explain it to others – a task I'm a little apprehensive about. Whilst I understand what I plan to speak about, there are 1000s of possible questions that people might ask so I'm trying to cover all areas. It's also a good excuse to familiarise myself with the FSA handbook.
Other than research, I'm also doing some work on the development of the spreadsheets that we currently use. A quick fix was carried out at mid-year, to incorporate some new businesses into our reporting structure; this involved using different spreadsheets for different business, so I'm trying to consolidate these spreadsheets.
These are of course important, but my #1 priority of the day is to head out for lunch in a few minutes and get some cakes for my team to celebrate my exam passes!
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