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Aflac sells supplemental health and life insurance in Japan and the United States, so the record leads with net earned premiums and net investment income rather than revenue, cost of revenue and capital spending. Total revenues also include net investment gains (losses), which move with markets and currency hedging and can swing sharply between periods (a $1,072 million loss in Q3 2026 against a $275 million gain in Q3 2025), so total revenues is not a clean measure of sales.", "Sources: fiscal years 2023 to 2025 come from the FY2025 10-K (accession 0001628280-26-011402). Q3 2026, Q3 2025 and the nine-month periods come from the Q3 2026 10-Q (accession 0001628280-26-070776). Both filings print the December 31, 2025 balance sheet with identical figures.", "Coverage: the 10-K prints three years of earnings and cash flows but only two balance sheets, so FY2023 carries no balance sheet. The 10-Q's balance sheet compares September 30, 2026 with December 31, 2025, so Q3 FY2025 carries no balance sheet.", "Cash flows: the 10-Q prints cash flow statements for the nine-month periods only. Nine-month cash flows are in the year-to-date block; no three-month cash flow figures are reported for Q3 2026 or Q3 2025.", "Trailing twelve months to September 30, 2026 is derived, not printed: FY2025 from the 10-K, plus the nine months ended September 30, 2026, less the nine months ended September 30, 2025. Per-share figures are not derived for that view, because earnings per share cannot be added across periods with different share counts.", "Signs follow the filings: reserve remeasurement (gains) losses are negative when they are gains that reduce benefits; cash outflows such as share repurchases, dividends paid and debt repayments are negative.", "Debt is the balance sheet's 'Notes payable and lease obligations' line, which includes lease obligations.", "Weighted-average share counts are printed in thousands and are stored here as actual shares. Shares outstanding at period end come from the share data in the notes to the financial statements (shares issued less treasury shares). GAAP book value per common share comes from the reconciliation of book value to adjusted book value in each filing's management's discussion and analysis.", "Cash dividends per share are taken from the statements of earnings ($2.32 for FY2025). The statements of shareholders' equity record dividends when declared, which gives a different per-share figure for the year ($2.35 for 2025).", "Adjusted earnings, adjusted earnings per diluted share and pretax adjusted earnings are Aflac's non-GAAP measures, taken from the reconciliations to net earnings in each filing. The FY2025 10-K reconciles adjusted earnings for 2025 and 2024 only, so FY2023 carries pretax adjusted earnings (from the segment note) but no adjusted earnings.", "Segment results use pretax adjusted earnings, the measure Aflac uses to evaluate its Aflac Japan and Aflac U.S. segments, and total adjusted revenues, which exclude most net investment gains and losses. Segment adjusted revenues therefore do not sum to total revenues on the statements of earnings.", "In Q3 2026 Aflac established a $215 million valuation allowance against deferred tax assets tied to tax capital loss carryforwards; $51 million of it was charged to net earnings as income tax expense and $164 million to other comprehensive income. The 10-Q reports an effective tax rate of 39.6% for the quarter, against 17.8% a year earlier.", "No split adjustment was needed: Aflac's last stock split, a 2-for-1 split in March 2018, predates every period in this record. 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