6) Business Segments

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2017

Notes

6) Business Segments

6)      Business Segment Information

Description of Products and Services by Segment

The Company has three reportable business segments: life insurance, cemetery and mortuary, and mortgage. The Company’s life insurance segment consists of life insurance premiums and operating expenses from the sale of insurance products sold by the Company’s independent agency force and net investment income derived from investing policyholder and segment surplus funds. The Company’s cemetery and mortuary segment consists of revenues and operating expenses from the sale of at-need cemetery and mortuary merchandise and services at its mortuaries and cemeteries, pre-need sales of cemetery spaces after collection of 10% or more of the purchase price and the net investment income from investing segment surplus funds. The Company’s mortgage segment consists of fee income and expenses from the originations of residential mortgage loans and interest earned and interest expenses from warehousing pre-sold loans before the funds are received from financial institutional investors.

Measurement of Segment Profit or Loss and Segment Assets

The accounting policies of the reportable segments are the same as those described in the Significant Accounting Principles of the Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2016. Intersegment revenues are recorded at cost plus an agreed upon intercompany profit, and are eliminated upon consolidation.

Factors Management Used to Identify the Enterprise’s Reportable Segments

The Company’s reportable segments are business units that are managed separately due to the different products provided and the need to report separately to the various regulatory jurisdictions. The Company regularly reviews the quantitative thresholds and other criteria to determine when other business segments may need to be reported.

	Life Insurance	Cemetery/ Mortuary	Mortgage	Intercompany Eliminations	Consolidated
For the Three Months Ended
March 31, 2017
Revenues from external customers	$  26,158,701	$   3,604,897	$   41,065,699	$                -	$   70,829,297
Intersegment revenues	2,988,651	109,351	95,770	(3,193,772)	-
Segment profit before income taxes	1,483,480	758,911	655,379	-	2,897,770
Identifiable Assets	833,999,127	99,554,821	164,990,647	(139,027,232)	959,517,363
Goodwill	2,765,570	-	-	-	2,765,570
For the Three Months Ended
March 31, 2016
Revenues from external customers	$  22,075,134	$   3,330,766	$   44,050,448	$                -	$   69,456,348
Intersegment revenues	3,103,446	286,925	79,479	(3,469,850)	-
Segment profit before income taxes	1,103,727	469,055	2,498,298	-	4,071,080
Identifiable Assets	724,858,698	96,827,903	157,602,831	(133,414,858)	845,874,574
Goodwill	2,765,570	-	-	-	2,765,570