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Deferred Policy Acquisition and Sales Inducement Costs (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2018
Deferred Policy Acquisition and Sales Inducement Costs |
Schedule of deferred policy acquisition costs |
Deferred policy acquisition costs activity
|  | For the years ended December 31,
($ in millions) |  | 2018 |  | 2017 |  | 2016
Balance, beginning of year |  | $ | 4,191 |  |  | $ | 3,954 |  |  | $ | 3,861 |
SquareTrade acquisition |  | — |  |  | 66 |  |  | — |
Acquisition costs deferred (1) |  | 5,663 |  |  | 5,001 |  |  | 4,717 |
Amortization charged to income (1) |  | (5,222 | ) |  | (4,784 | ) |  | (4,550 | )
Effect of unrealized gains and losses |  | 152 |  |  | (46 | ) |  | (74 | )
Balance, end of year |  | $ | 4,784 |  |  | $ | 4,191 |  |  | $ | 3,954 |
Schedule of DSI activity for Allstate Financial |
Deferred sales inducement costs activity (2)
|  | For the years ended December 31,
($ in millions) |  | 2018 |  | 2017 |  | 2016
Balance, beginning of year |  | $ | 36 |  |  | $ | 40 |  |  | $ | 45 |
Sales inducements deferred |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | 1 |
Amortization charged to income |  | (4 | ) |  | (4 | ) |  | (5 | )
Effect of unrealized gains and losses |  | 2 |  |  | — |  |  | (1 | )
Balance, end of year |  | $ | 34 |  |  | $ | 36 |  |  | $ | 40 |
(1) | Includes $152 million of acquisition costs deferred and $101 million of amortization charged to income related to the revenue from contracts with customers accounting standard adopted in 2018.
(2) | Deferred sales inducement costs primarily relate to fixed annuities and interest-sensitive life contracts and are recorded as part of other assets on the Consolidated Statements of Financial Position.

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- Definition Schedule reconciling the carrying value from the beginning to the end of the period for capitalized costs related directly to the successful acquisition of new and renewal insurance contracts and the present value of future profits (PVFP, also known as Value of Business Acquired, or VOBA) of estimated net cash flows embedded in existing long-duration contracts acquired in the purchase of a life insurance company. + References No definition available. + Details
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- Definition Tabular disclosure of the change in deferred sales inducements. + References Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 944 -SubTopic 30 -Section 50 -Paragraph 3 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6481800&loc=d3e11332-158416 + Details
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