Risk Management | Nelson Croom | Accounting and Finance Portfolio |

It is difficult, these days, to pick up a newspaper or magazine and not find stories involving serious problems which have suddenly struck particular enterprises. The cause may have been external to the enterprise (such as a natural disaster like earthquakes or floods) or internal (such as a failure to comply with regulations, or issues with quality control).

Whatever the cause you are left to wonder why top management were not aware of the possibility so that they could take evasive action - or at least be in a position to react quickly and positively when the problem arose.

Risk Management looks at the context in which the concept of risk management has developed, the sort of infrastructure and processes it requires, and the impact it has on traditional control systems. It also looks at some of the problems which have made national and international news.

Risk Management is part of Nelson Croom's Issues and Debates suite of learning. Issues and Debates courses stimulate intelligent dialogue and debate and provide a valuable and evolving resource of professional knowledge and experience. These courses are topical, practical and highly relevant to today's changing market. Each module is split into two activities: Understanding the issues and Putting it into practice. The first encourages you to think about a topic, drawing on your own professional experience and knowledge. The second helps you to put ideas and/or theories into practice as part of your day-to-day work.

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Risk Management enables learners to

Understand the concept of risk management
Identify the impact risk management has on a company
Understand the processes required for risk management to be put in place
Develop an understanding of the Bribery Act and its implications
Use recent risk management disasters to help avoid future problems
Manage the effects of extreme events on a business

Learning outcomes

The Context

Financial Crises

The nature of risk

Impact of megatrends

Regulatory requirements

The infrastructure

Foundation stones

Sources of value

Risk appetite

Framework

Practicalities

Budgetary control

Investing

Extreme events

Crisis management

Recent Issues

The bribery act

Recent disasters

Target audience

This course is designed to appeal to people working in the accounting and finance industry at all levels.

About the Author

David Allen is a past president of CIMA and a past chairman of the Management Accounting Committee of the International Federation of Accountants. He was employed for many years by Cadbury Schweppes group holding directorships with various subsidiary companies. Whilst with the group, he coined the expression Strategic Financial Management to refer to an approach which enabled the finance function to play a proactive role in the formation and monitoring of strategy, and offered an antidote to short-termism.