Fundamentals of risk management for accountants and managers :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
tools & techniques /
First Statement of Responsibility
Paul M. Collier.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
London :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2009.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (xi, 285 pages) :
Other Physical Details
illustrations
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Part 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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Both 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.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Fundamentals of risk management for accountants and managers.
International Standard Book Number
9780750686501
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Risk management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Insurance-- Risk Assessment & Management.