Governance
Outside Directors in Private Companies
By Valerio Giannini One of the benefits of private companies is that compared to public companies they are pretty much ...Risk Culture and the Human Factor
By: Geoff Trickey Over three years, PCL psychologists have been researching human factor risk. This is a topic with a ...Board Oversight of Management’s Risk Appetite and Tolerance
By: Tim Leech In the aftermath of the financial crisis, companies and their boards have been grappling with new disclosure ...Governance and Records in Closely-Held Companies
By: Valerio Giannini Corporate governance isn’t important until it is. The greatest hazard of poor governance is compromising protection against ...Defining Risk Appetite & Risk Threshold
By: Chizubel Egwudo The very basic way to define risk appetite can be likened with eating food. When we think ...Risk Appetite – Key Concepts
Introduction A risk appetite is the amount of risk a firm is willing to accept in order to achieve its ...Reverse Mergers: Beauty or Beast?
By: Valerio Giannini Reverse Mergers can’t be all bad. Even the New York Stock Exchange did one. Reverse Mergers, however, ...Walking on Shifting Sand ERM in the Age of Uncertainty
By: Geary Sikich Governments and companies worldwide are emerging from the current financial crisis and subsequent recession. While governments are ...Identify Emerging Risks that Can Affect the Sustainability of Your Organization
By: Christina Duren In the present day scenario, risk became part and parcel of every business, irrespective of the size. ...The Power of Feedback Loops
By: Todd Cooper Enterprise risk management (ERM) is a practice that has gained momentum in response to the global financial ...