Risk and controls management

In a 2004 survey of 200 IT professionals from 14 countries in the Americas, Asia/Pacific and Europe, the IT Governance Institute (ITGI) found that in 80% of organizations, IT management is solely responsible for defining and addressing IT risk impact. This widespread lack of involvement by business unit managers demon- strates a consistent—and alarming—gap in mapping technology risk to the business. Additionally, this gap als shows that most organizations have inadequate IT risk assessment processes across their enterprises.

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In everyday life we are often forced to make decisions involving risks and perceived opportunities. The consequences of our decisions are affected by the outcomes of random variables that are to various degrees beyond our control. Such decision problems arise, for instance, in financial and insurance markets.

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(BQ) Part 2 book "Project management" has contents: Risk and opportunities management, project organisation - structures and teams, management and leadership in projects, control, supply chain issues, problem-solving and decision-making, project completion and review, improving project performance.

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(BQ) Part 2 book "International management" has contents: Managing political risk, government relations, and alliance; management decision and control; motivation across cultures, leadership across cultures, human resource selection and development across cultures.

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Health, Safety, Environment and Community Management System Framework includes Leadership and Accountability, Legal and Other Requirements, Hazard and Risks, Health and Hygiene, Environment, Aviation & Marine Operations and Fatal Risk Controls.

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(BQ) Part 2 book "Project management" has contents: Maintaining control during project execution, dealing with risk and uncertainty, managing the project interfaces, project communication and documentation, project communication and documentation.

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Chapter 5: Risk Management. Risk management is one of the most important areas of project management that must be considered. Companies that want to compete with one another have adopted project management as a method of managing their companies. They have had to learn how to define and control project scope, schedule, and cost as baselines, and they have had to learn all of the control elements necessary to make successful projects. But many of these companies have yet to learn to manage the risks involved in managing a project.

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A well-functioning public sector that delivers quality public services consistent with citizen preferences and that fosters private market-led growth while managing fiscal resources prudently is considered critical to the World Bank’s mission of poverty alleviation and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

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To understand an entity’s internal control, the auditor will evaluate the design and implementation of a control. The auditor's primary consideration is whether, and how, a specific control prevents, or detects and corrects, material misstatements in classes of transactions, account balances or disclosures. The heaviest emphasis by auditors is on controls over classes of transactions rather than account balances or disclosures

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Project Risk Management includes the processes concerned with conducting risk management planning, identification, analysis, responses, and monitoring and control on a project; most of these processes are updated throughout the project.

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This book grows out of 20 years’ banking research and training of bankers in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. As deregulation and competition are reducing margins around the world, the need for knowledge on Asset and Liability Management, the control of bank’s profit and risks, becomes an absolute necessity for any banker in charge of a profit centre, central bankers in charge of bank supervision, and banks’ auditors, consultants or lawyers.

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Banks operating in the main developed countries have been exposed, since the Seventies, to four significant drivers of change, mutually interconnected and mutually reinforcing. The first one is a stronger integration among national financial markets (such as stock markets and markets for interest rates and FX rates) which made it easier, for economic shocks, to spread across national boundaries.

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As SUNY New Paltz administrators strive to achieve the college’s mission and goals and to provide accountability for their operations, they need to continually assess and evaluate their internal control structure to assure that it is well designed and operating effectively, appropriately updated to meet changing conditions, and provides reasonable assurance that the objectives of the department are being achieved.

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In conducting their operations, farmers are exposed to financial losses because of production risks—droughts, floods, and other natural disasters—as well as price risks. The federal government has played an active role in helping to mitigate the effects of these risks on farm income by promoting the use of crop insurance. RMA has overall responsibility for administering the federal crop insurance program, including controlling costs and protecting against fraud, waste, and abuse.

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There is some evidence of ‘alpha’ being generated by fund managers through 'skilful transaction activity and asset management. Opportunity fund managers also appear to have generated superior returns through controlling the timing of the buying and selling of assets, although, with performance fees generally charged on IRRs rather than time-weighted returns, it is open to debate as to whom this benefits more - the investor or the fund manager.

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The ongoing need for new agents to control weeds has stimulated the search for new photosynthetic inhibitors. We described in this chapter a variety of compounds presenting this type of activity. The natural products have been explored toward this end resulting in the identification of compounds with various structural motifs. Such an approach has resulted in the discovery of photosynthetic inhibitors with new modes of action. This, in turn, can be helpful in dealing whit resistance a problem to be faced in weed management....

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Indeed, in the presence of predictability in fund risk loadings and benchmark returns, optimal portfolios consist entirely of actively managed funds even when the possibility of manager skills in stock selection and benchmark timing is ruled out. That is, actively managed funds allow the investor to capitalize on predictability in benchmarks and fund risk loadings in a way that cannot be achieved through long-only index fund positions. We now turn to analyze predictability in manager skills.

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The past year has been one of great turmoil, with the global financial markets on the brink of collapse and organizations struggling amid a worldwide recession, regardless of industry. Among the many effects of this crisis, management and boards of directors are looking more closely than ever at risk, finance, governance and operations to ensure that all proper controls are in place and functioning properly, that their IT systems and data are secure, and that they are leveraging working capital to the greatest extent possible.

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The impact of AIFM on the markets in which they operate is largely beneficial, but recent financial difficulties have underlined how activities of AIFM may also serve to spread or amplify risks through the financial system. Uncoordinated national responses to these risks make the efficient management of these risks difficult. This Directive therefore aims at establishing common requirements governing the authorisation and supervision of AIFM in order to provide a coherent approach to the related risks and their impact on investors and markets in the European Union. ...

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This increased level of risk among young men is not confined to driving. The WHO (1999) and (2002) report that men are also more likely to die from falls, drowning, poisoning and a range of other events. Only in the case of deaths in fires are women slightly more over-represented than men. The report also notes that injury and fatality rates are higher among men for every type of road injury victim in several developing countries. In Kampala, Uganda, for example, males outnumbered females by between 2 and 7 to 1 among injured vehicle drivers, passengers and pedestrians. In the...

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