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" Fundamentals of risk management for accountants and managers : "
Paul M. Collier.
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BL
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1001173
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b755543
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Collier, Paul M.
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Fundamentals of risk management for accountants and managers : : tools techniques /\ Paul M. Collier.
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Amsterdam ;Boston ;London :: Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann,, 2009.
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1 online resource (xi, 285 pages) :: illustrations
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008094275X
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: 0750686502
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: 9780080942759
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: 9780750686501
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: 9781136439827
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: 9781136439865
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: 9781136439872
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: 9781138143821
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9780750686501
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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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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.
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Risk management.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Insurance-- Risk Assessment Management.
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Företagsekonomi.
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Kredit.
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Risk management.
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Riskhantering.
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| Dewey Classification
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658.155
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HD61.C64 2009eb
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