A well-run business needs to factor risk into its daily operations in order to keep from incurring unexpected losses. This CPE course provides detailed guidance for doing so. Enterprise Risk Management describes the concept of risk management, how to identify risks, and how to prioritize the responses to these risks. Participants learn how to integrate risk management into an organization's strategy and day-to-day operations, as well as who is responsible for it. The course addresses risk management at the level of the individual functional area, including treasury and accounting, sales and marketing, human resources, and information technology. There is coverage of contingency planning, insurance, financial analysis, and risk-related measurements and reports. Risk management is a major failing in many organizations; use the planning advice in this course to rise above the crowd.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:
Recognize the benefits of risk management, the circumstances under which an organization can retain risk, the characteristics of an enterprise risk management system, and the contents of an organization's risk profile.
Specify the contents of a credit rating system, and the circumstances under which operational hedges, forward contracts, payment netting, call options, and interest rate swaptions are used.
Identify the risk mitigation efforts that can benefit from centralized marketing management and product testing, as well as the tactics used to mitigate the risk of false marketing claims.
Specify the uses of surety bonds, as well as the available risk mitigation alternatives for late deliveries.
Recognize the alternatives available to reduce the risks of insufficient capacity.
Identify the risk-related benefits of offering a richer benefits package to employees, as well as the options available for offsetting a decline in employee morale.
Identify the uses to which multiple scenario modeling and internal audits can be put, as well as how to reduce the risk of issuing financial statements that contain errors.
Recognize which risk can be reduced by the use of a hot site, and the risk represented by portable storage media.
Specify the risk mitigation tactics related to political risk and alliance risk.
Identify the employee notification systems that can be used in the event of an emergency, which forms of communication are the most effective, and which issues with employees may arise immediately after a disaster has occurred.
Recognize the reasons why deductibles and co-pay are included in insurance contracts, the issues with all-perils coverage, and the circumstances under which reimbursement occurs under business interruption insurance.
State how risk should be incorporated into analyses involving pricing, dividends, capital budgeting, and research & development.
Identify the uses to which risk-related reports can be put, the types of leading indicators, and how to evaluate credit ratings.
Major Topics
Risk Management
Treasury Risk Management
Sales and Marketing Risk Management
Supply Chain Risk Management
Production and Distribution Risk Management
Human Resources Risk Management
Accounting Risk Management
Information Technology and Systems Risk Management
Contingency Planning
Insurance
Risk in Financial Analysis
Risk Measurements and Reports
