Risks are an essential part of all businesses. Firms that develop a disciplined strategy to understand and manage risks have a distinct advantage over their competitors, including both higher returns and lower cost of capital.
This course provides an overview of the concepts of corporate enterprise risk management from the perspective of a finance and accounting organization, emphasizing the integration of risk management and corporate strategy.
The course starts with an overview of the types of risks businesses face, and then discusses best practices in risk assessment and enterprise risk management, including the COSO Enterprise Risk Management framework. The linkage of corporate governance and risk management is explored, including a discussion of key findings from a New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) commission on corporate governance.
This course covers the Enterprise Risk Management material published in the content specification outline for the Certified Management Accountant (CMA) Part 2 examination.
Topics include:
- Overview of Risk
- Basics of Risk Management
- Enterprise Risk Management
- COSO framework for Enterprise Risk Management.
- Corporate Governance and Enterprise Risk Management
Course Key Concepts: Corporate Governance, Corporate Risk Management, COSO, Enterprise Risk Management, ERM, Monte-Carlo Simulation, Risk Assessment, Risk Maps, Scenario Planning, Value at Risk (VaR).
Learning Objectives
- Identify risk.
- Identify the types of risk and key elements of each.
- Recognize risk management and its key steps.
- Explore the use of probabilities to assess risk.
- Identify strategies for risk response.
- Recognize Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and explain its key objectives, components, and benefits.
- Recognize the role of the Committee of Sponsoring Organization’s (COSO) ERM framework.
- Explore the role of corporate governance in ERM.
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Prerequisites
No advanced preparation or prerequisites are required for this course.
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