Four volunteer actuaries are seated around a table. It is Meeting #14 of the Working Party on the Governance of Working Parties. The agenda is three items long. The first is a review of terms of reference. The second is a proposal to form a sub-working party on reporting. The third is a date for the next meeting — at which the formation of a steering group will be discussed.

Nobody in the room is surprised by any of this. Everyone has a thick ring-binder. Everyone has a cooling coffee. The whiteboard is fresh, because the whiteboard from Meetings #1 through #13 ran out of space.

Their first recommendation will be to form a sub-committee.

The professional-body satire strand continues in The Politics Actuary sequence. Previous entry in this strand: #4 Transparency Request.

Previous cartoons: #1 Record Investment | #2 Y-Axis Trick | #3 Prompt Engineering | #4 Transparency Request | #5 Define Everyone | #6 Long-Term Assumption | #7 Excel Relapse | #8 Holiday Risk Assessment | #9 Confident Nonsense | #10 Nearly There | #11 Best Estimate | #12 Appliance Mortality