|aPart A: Introducing risk management -- 1.The emergence of risk -- The origins of the risk discipline in OH&S, insurance, project management and financial derivatives. Influence of key writers such as Beck and Adams. -- 2.The corporate governance agenda -- The influence of Cadbury, corporate failures at Enron and WorldCom, Sarbanes-Oxley, the King Report, audit and risk committees. -- 3.Corporate governance and risk management in the public and not-for-profit sectors -- Part B: A strategic perspective on Enterprise Risk Management -- 4.Towards Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) -- The traditional approach to risk management compared with ERM. Various models of risk management, e.g. COSO (US), the IRM (UK), the Australian risk standard, Basel, etc. -- 5.Risk and strategy: product/markets, supply chain, competitive position, brands, regulation, technology change, reputation, distribution channels. Risk and sustainable competitive advantage. -- 6.Risk categorisation -- Types of risk and the advantages of categorisation -- 7.Techniques for identifying and assessing risks -- Likelihood/consequences. Risk registers. Risk reviews. -- 8.The manager?s role in risk management -- Role of the risk manager. Risk management groups. Risk management software. Risk management policy -- 9.Risk and culture -- Risk appetite. National, organisational and professional cultures. Embedding risk into the organisation. -- Part C: Risk applications in the organisation -- 10.Risk and financial reporting -- Reporting to shareholders, divisional performance measurement -- 11.Risk and financial decision making -- Budgeting, profitability analysis, capital investment -- 12.Risk and information systems -- Systems design, development and implementation. The IT environment and different applications. Networks. IT controls -- 13.Risk in financial services -- Derivatives, Interest rates, Foreign exchange -- 14.Health and safety risk management -- Risk assessments. Risk auditing. Risk recording -- 15.Credit risk management -- Credit approval. Credit management. Credit financing. -- 16.Asset risk management -- Supply chain risks. Purchasing risk. Breakdown risk. Obsolescence risk. -- 17.Project risk management and contract risk -- Legal and commercial risk. Negotiating and managing contracts and projects. Technical and contractual delivery. -- 18.Risk and fraud -- Preventing, identifying and responding to fraud -- 19.Risk and the environment -- Pollution, contamination, sustainability and global warming. ISO14000 -- 20.Risk and crisis management -- From 9/11 to business continuity -- 21.Risk and insurance -- Principles of insurance. Liability. Property. Self insurance. Reinsurance. -- Part D: Evaluating risk management -- 22.Risk, the audit committee and the risk committee -- 23.Risk and internal control -- 24.Risk and internal audit -- 25.Auditing risk management -- 26.The future of risk management -- Glossary of terms -- Index --.
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|aBoth financial and non-financial managers with accountability for performance at either a strategic level or for a business unit have responsibility for risk management, in terms of failing to achieve organisational objectives. Fundamentals of Enterprise Risk management is structured around four parts and 26 self-contained chapters. Each chapter will have ample practical examples and illustrations/mini-case studies from retail, manufacturing and service industries and from the public and not-for-profit sectors to enable the reader to understand and apply the concepts in the book. *Increase your awareness and understanding of enterprise risk management; *Enable you to to play a more important role in an organisation?s risk management process; * Help you to producing information and implement controls that contribute to the effective management of risk.
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