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September 1, 2008

Managing Risks for Comparative Advantage: Five Steps to Better Risk Management

This articles highlights a five-step process to help companies make changes to better their approach to risk management in response to the developments occurring in the corporate approach to risk...

August 7, 2008

Risk Managers Should Have Been Better Prepared

A risk manager at a large global bank explains how he did not expect the economy to take a turn for the worse. Since the economy was doing so well,...

June 1, 2008

Board-Level Risk Committees

Traditionally, senior risk executives have managed risk at the operational level of organizations. Boards have had general oversight responsibilities for risk, with audit or finance committees taking on more specific...

May 1, 2008

Standard & Poor’s Applies ERM Analysis to Ratings

Beginning in the third quarter of 2008, Standard and Poor’s will incorporate Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) into discussions at regularly scheduled credit review meetings. The discussions of ERM will focus...

May 1, 2008

ERM: The Importance of Senior Management Buy-In and Leadership

The Midwest Audit Committee Network met to discuss effective ways for boards and audit committees to oversee enterprise-wide risk management. The network is a group of audit committee chairs drawn...

April 1, 2008

Audit Committee Oversight of Enterprise Risk Management

The emphasis the SEC and Standard and Poor’s have placed on risk management processes has led many companies to increase the oversight responsibility for risk management placed on the...

January 31, 2008

NC State ERM Initiative Responds to S&P Request for Comment

The NC State ERM Initiative has responded to the request for comment issued by Standard & Poor's on their proposed expansion of ERM analysis to nonfinancial companies as part of their...

December 31, 2007

Emerging Expectations for Alignment of Internal Audit and Risk Oversight

This report summarizes survey responses received by PricewaterhouseCoopers from chief audit executives of Fortune 250 companies about trends affecting internal auditors by 2012, particularly related to internal audit’s role in risk...

December 31, 2007

The Evolution of Risk and Controls: Seeking Value Creation

KPMG partnered with the Economist Intelligence Unit to report on the evolution of risk and controls functions within organizations. This report contains findings of how companies are re-defining the roles...

December 1, 2007

Audit Committee Involvement in Risk Oversight

Many boards of directors are directing executive management to embrace enterprise risk management (ERM) to develop a stronger top-down holistic view of risks affecting the enterprise. In most cases, the...

December 1, 2007

Reputation Risk Management

A 2008 survey investigated the status of reputation risk management at different companies and found that companies are aware of reputation risks but may not be sufficiently managing these risks. There...

September 1, 2007

Linking Governance to Strategy

Finance professionals should play a key role in corporate governance, including connecting corporate governance to performance metrics and daily operations. This article examines an example of such a role in...

August 1, 2007

Political Risks

Internal Auditor recently published an article titled, Assessing Political Risks, that discusses the role of chief audit executives (CAEs) as they face challenges such as unstable global markets. The article...

June 19, 2007

Risk of Piling ERM on Audit Committee

The recently published article by Jabulani Leffall titled, Risk of Piling ERM on the Audit Committee, provides insight on the expectations placed on some audit committees to address a company�...

June 5, 2007

Risk Manager Trepidation

Even though some risks may involve unpredictable natural disasters, managers need to implement plans to reduce the impact such an event(s) would have on their business. Risk managers should...

June 1, 2007

ERM Progress

Internal Auditor recently published an article titled, Moving Forward with ERM, to provide news on recent developments in ERM and the increasingly important role that chief risk officers (CROs) play...

February 1, 2007

Managing Reputation Risk

Reputation is very important to most organizations, yet many companies do a poor job of managing risks to their reputation. Too often, companies focus their energy on addressing threats to...

February 1, 2007

ERM Business Drivers

Forrester recently published an article by Michael Rasmussen titled, Business Drivers for Enterprise Risk Management, detailing why companies struggle with implementing and managing a successful enterprise risk management (ERM) program. ...

November 1, 2006

A Changing Risk Landscape – A Study of Corporate ERM in the U.S.

A survey administered to financial professionals of large public companies that explores their views on the key risks facing their companies and how they are managed. The consensus is that...

September 25, 2006

Managing the Unexpected

The Quarterly Journal of the EDS Agility Alliance recently published an article titled, Unwelcome Surprises, that discusses the dangers that can evolve from having a decentralized business structure that does...

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