Risk Management Flashcards

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risk management relate to managers’ tendencies to rely on older perceptions of the risks they face and the most effective ways of managing them.

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Cognitive barriers to risk management

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2
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risk

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Effect of uncertainty on the ability to meet organizational objectives

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3
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Coordinated activities to direct and control an organization with regard to risk

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risk management

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4
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Unforeseen “outlier” events that are extremely rare, have a major impact, and, when viewed in hindsight, are reasonably predictable

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“Black swans”

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5
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Kaplan and Mikes’s Categories of risks

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Internal and preventable; Strategy; External

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6
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What considers risk to be an integrated issue that must be managed across functions and divisions in an enterprise

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Enterprise Risk Management

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7
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The ERM Framework divides risk into four categories

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Strategy; Operations; Financial reporting; Compliance

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8
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ISO’s organizational framework of risk-aware and risk-intelligent culture

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Management commitment; Design of a framework for managing risk; Implementing risk management; Periodic monitoring and review of the framework; Continual improvement of the framework

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9
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What data is necessary for developing a global organizational and functional strategy

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PESTLE

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10
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the organization’s desired gain or acceptable loss in value

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risk position

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11
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a tool used to gather individual assessments of various characteristics of risk

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risk scorecard

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12
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Metrics that “provide an early signal of increasing risk exposures in the various areas of an enterprise.”

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key risk indicators (KRIs)

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13
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PAPA model matrix

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prepare, act, park, and adapt

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14
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List of information about and responsibility for managing specific risks. This information increases the transparency and accountability in an organization’s risk management process.

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Risk Register

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15
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The risk plan creates another layer of opportunity or risk

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secondary risk

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16
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The amount of uncertainty that remains after all risk management efforts have been exhausted

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residual risk

17
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The actions an organization takes to be sure that it is performing work according to the standards it has set and that it is using specified processes correctly and completely.

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Quality assurance (QA)

18
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Primary categories of barriers to effective risk management

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Structural, cognitive, and cultural

19
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when someone takes risks because he or she will not be affected by losses or damages that occur as a result.

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Moral hazard

20
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What factors does the risk equation use to determine level of risk?

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Probability of occurrence and magnitude of impact

21
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MECE, the organization wants to be confident that it has identified all plausible risks for all strategic and operational aspects of its business, but it wants to avoid duplication or overlapping in the identification.

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mutually exclusive and comprehensively exhaustive