The Actuary's Prayer

As ode to the actuarial pet insurance work I'm doing today, I give you The Actuary's Prayer:

The ACTUARY's PRAYER (ver 3.01)

Our model, which art in nowhere.
Guessing be thy name.
Thy assumptions come,
Thy will be done in future as it was in the past.
Give us this day our premium rates,
and forgive us our lousy estimates,
as we forgive those who supply us with crappy data.
Lead us not into insolvencies, and deliver us from auditors.
For thine is the #NAME?, #DIV/0!, and #VALUE!,
forever and ever.

Amen.

I've no idea who wrote it (likely an actuarial student who was supposed to be studying...) but if you are an actuary, you'll get a good laugh out of it...

And now back to our regular programming....