Enterprise Risk: Application of Risk to Business Enterprise

Description

Description: This course has been designed to introduce external and internal drivers that can result in a range of operational, financial, and strategic risks manifesting in organisations. This course examines the role of corporate governance and compliance, introducing relevant standards, and suggests methods of developing and implementing appropriate risk management strategies.

This course features dynamic and engaging video with audio narration, infographics and short quizzes to test your knowledge.

Background: Enterprise risk management deals with risks and opportunities affecting value creation or preservation, defined as follows:

Enterprise Risk Management
Is a process, effected by an entity’s board of directors, management and other personnel, applied in strategy setting and across the enterprise, designed to identify potential events that may affect the entity, and manage risk to be within its risk appetite, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the achievement of entity objectives.

The definition reflects certain fundamental concepts. Enterprise risk management is:

• A process, ongoing and flowing through an entity
• Effected by people at every level of an organization
• Applied in the strategy setting
• Applied across the enterprise, at every level and unit, and includes taking an entity level portfolio view of risk
• Designed to identify potential events that, if they occur, will affect the entity and to manage risk within its risk appetite
• Able to provide reasonable assurance to an entity’s management and board of directors
• Geared to the achievement of objectives in one or more separate but overlapping categories.

Achievement Of Objectives
Within the context of an entity’s established mission or vision, management establishes strategic objectives, selects strategy, and sets aligned objectives cascading through the enterprise. This enterprise risk management framework is geared to achieving an entity’s objectives, set forth in four categories:

• Strategic – high-level goals, aligned with and supporting its mission
• Operations – effective and efficient use of its resources
• Reporting – reliability of reporting
• Compliance – compliance with applicable laws and regulations.