Risk Management Assignment Sample

Risk Management

INTRODUCTION

Risk is a part of our lives, every activity or task we perform has some risk involved. Therefore, each and every organisation have various risk involved in their business operation. This report identify and determine the various types of risk and the risk management functions of Equitable Funding Ltd. The study will describe the ways in which the company assess and manage the risk using different approaches of risk management. The report will also include the strategies, drivers and impact of risks on a business and its functions. Furthermore, the approaches of crisis management and business continuity will be described in the report.

TASK 1 : Summary

1.1 The impact of different types of risk on organisations

There are many types of risk involved within a business and its functions, these risks have a great impact on the organisation's performance and profitability. The Equitable funding gets affected with different risks which are as described below -

• Strategic risk â€" Every organisation or company have a business plan based on the goals to be achieved which is also known as business strategy. The various changes in the business environment can make the business plan outdated or decrease the effectiveness of the strategies this is the strategic risks. The company gets highly effected with this risk as the plan becomes less effective and make the company to struggle in achieving its business objectives and goals( Wiengarten and et.al, 2016).
• Compliance risk â€" Another risk involved in the Equitable funding is the risk of compliance or laws and regulations. Every company or organisation are applied with certain laws and regulation that they need follow or apply in their business practices. The change in the laws is a major risk for an organisation. It forces changing the business operations and even the structure of the entire company.
• Operational risks â€" These risks refers to an issue or failure of the daily business activities and operations. Operations of an organisation can fail due to any reason such as technical issues, employee strike etc. These risk also have a great impact on the overall operational area of the business. For example is there is failure in the production area. The whole functional department will face the issue and it will stop the flow of the business operations.

1.2 The activities which are high risk in different sectors of the economy.

Risk is a common element involved in each and every business in almost every sector. These risks are identified and analysed to reduce the rate of loss. The risk in different sectors are as mentioned below -

• Hospitality sector â€" The hospitality sector is a known to be a great part of the economy of a country. The hospitality sector includes various hotels which provides effective services to the guests or customers. There is a major risk in this sector which is the data privacy. The hotels have a lot of information about their guests which needed to be protected by cyber crime or theft. The cyber attack can be a major harm to the hospitality sector(Bromiley and et.al, 2015).
• Banking sector â€" The banking sector also involves many risks such as Market risks, credit risks, Liquidity risk, Reputation risk etc. The change in equity price, foreign exchange, interest rates etc are affecting the functionality of the banking sector which is high risk for the banking organisations.
• Manufacturing industry â€" The manufacturing industry is also an important of the economy. The manufacturing sector also have a wide range of risks involved in the business operations. Conflict mineral disclosure which drives regulatory risks, Acquisitions and mergers risks which increases competition, Intellectual property protection enhance data security risks etc are some high risks involved in the manufacturing sector.

TASK 2 : Reference guide for junior colleagues

2.1 Business risk

A business risk refers to the possibility an organisation may have lower than analysed profits and experience a loss rather than generating profit. These risks are affected by various elements such as per-unit price, sales volume, competition, sale volume etc.

Nature of business risks

The nature of various risks can be described with relation to its various features which are as described below -

• Opportunities for gaining are hidden within business risks â€" If the management of Equitable Funding successfully able to manage and handle the business risks, they can get effective opportunity to gain various benefits for the business.
• Business risks depend upon time â€" Previously the business risks were limited and less but in the present scenario there is very high competition, globalisation of the economy and advanced technology which makes the business risks very severe(Wolke,2017)
• Business risks depend on the size of the business enterprise â€" Small businesses less exposed to various business risk as they are benefited with the flexible operations and they may adapt the changes easily.

 2.2 The role of the risk management function in business

The Risk management within an organisation such as the Equitable Funding Ltd performs various functions in order avoid the risks involved in the business operations. The Risk management performs various functions as described below -

• Providing various methods to analyse and identify the financial impacts of loss to the company, public, employees and the environment.
• The Risk management also helps to examine the use of cost-effective and realistic opportunities in order to balance the retention programs along with commercial insurance.
• The risk management professionals create various budgets such as the insurance budget, risk management budget as well as help the organisation in allocating the premium and claim costs to various division and departments(Almeida,Hankins and Williams,2017).
• The risk manager also plays an important role in developing and maintaining the records such as claim and loss experience, insurance policies etc.
• The risk management helps to analyse or review important contracts, new activities for insurance and loss determination and proposed facilities.
• The risk management helps an organisation to prevent the loss or negative impact of any new or exiting business activity performed by the business or firm. The risk management identifies and implement different techniques to prevent or reduce any loss to the business.

2.3 The role of business functions in the management of risk.

The Equitable funding Ltd performs various functions which plays an important role in the management of risk. The various functions performed by the business for managing the risk as follows -

• Strategic planning â€" Every business perform effective planning in order to perform various organisational activities and achieve the business goals. The planning is an important part of a business or organisation to perform, manage and organise the business activities which can help the business or company to achieve the objectives and goals effectively. This helps in reducing the operational risk of the business.
• HRM functions â€" The Human resource management perform effective function to develop and maintain workforce or human resources of the organisation. It is very important to manage and organise the workforce in order to avoid risk of dis-functioning of the business tasks.
• Managerial functions â€" The management perform different significant managerial functions within an organisation such as planning staffing, coordinating and controlling. The management ensures that a company is working effectively with the fair practices with respect to the laws and regulations.

TASK 3

3.1 Evaluation the vulnerability of organisations to breaks in continuity

Continuity involves incident prevention, surviving disruption and recovery planning and company is to survive a period of disruption and recover from it. There are different types of barriers which are not beneficial for the business. However, they can use some vulnerability of the organisation, so they can able to run their business in regular basis(Glendon,Clarke and McKenna,2016). There are number of vulnerability for the company which can be used by the organisation. The various functions performed by the business for managing the continuity as follows -

• Maximise recovery: - Equality funding limited provide credit services to their entire customers. When any company provide credit services to their customers, they maximise their risk in the company. However, they should use some effective planning for reduce the risk in the business. Along with this, company should use the planning of maximise the recovery of the credit amount which is provided to their customers. There are number of customers who are using the credit services of the company but some time some customers are not able to pay their outstanding amount to the company. However, company can take action against the customers, so they will pay their outstanding amount to the company. Through this process company can able to maximise their recovery for their business and it will be very beneficial for the organisation(Cohen,Krishnamoorthy and Wright,2017).
• Product protection: - Although planning for unforeseen events may seem simple, in reality it's not. Company should manage their product and services in the business. Along with this, they should protect their product, however customers will get the quality product and services from the company. Through this process, company can manage the risk and run their business in basis of continuity.
• Strategic planning: - They should follow some effective planning, so they can able to reduce the risk in the business. According to strategic planning they can make continuity strategies and business continuity plans for reducing the risk and continuity of the business. Strategic planing is very effective tool for the organisation.

3.2 Approaches to crisis management and business continuity planning.

In respect to solve the crisis management following approaches

• Identify and isolate the issue- First employees have to detect the problem and identify quickly so that an issue can be solve in less time.
• Respond quickly- employee has to react quickly because timing is so important and crucial role in that, also one cannot wait so long for the solution.
• Set the Agenda- one has to take control and tell their own story and set the record first.
• Hire a Professional- If the crises cannot be solved on their own, they should hire the professionals to resolve the problem fast(Aven,2016).
• Make changes and communicate what they are- if a company changes something related to any product or apply new rules on employees to fix the problem, they should let the employees know about it.
• Reflect, Review & Resolve- Think about the problem which has occurred, review the solution, and see how can the crisis be solved further.
• Make a plan proactively, to effectively solve the problem.

TASK 4

4.1 Assessment of the activities for the company to identify the probability of risks

Risk analysis is a process that help company to identify and manage potential problems that could undermine key business initiatives or project. Company can use some effective activities to identify the risk in the business. Organisation should know the physical risk of the company, so they can know about the employees issues and manger decision in the organisation. Further, they should have knowledge about location risk, so they can able to reduce the risk(McNeil,Frey and Embrechts,2015).

When they identify the all risk in the business then they should prepare a risk management plan, so they can able to reduce the all risk in the business. Moreover, they should know the all issues and problems of the employees, so they will be able to resolve their problems in the company. They are providing the credit services to their customers, so they should get then information about the customers who are not paying their outstanding amount on time. However, they will be ale to get outstanding amount from the unpaid customers. Through this process they can identify the all risk which are facing by the company. Company should use these activities for the business to identify the probability of risks.

4.2 Evaluation of the potential impact of the identified risks to the business

An organisational risk such as the operational risk, financial risk etc are needed to be evaluated in order to make an effective plan for avoiding those risks. The evaluation of risk is essential to analyse and identify the rate of loss or harm it can do to the business or company. There are two tools use for the evaluation of risks which are as mentioned below -

• Financial infrastructure Reputational marketing
• Prioritising and scoring risks

Impact of the identified risks to the business of Equitable Funding Ltd

Once the company identified the risks they need to assess possible impacts of them. They need to distinguish the minor risks from major ones because minor risks are acceptable whereas major risks have to be managed fast(Pritchard and PMP,2014)

Analyse what is the level of risk

The company equitable funding Ltd. Should first analyse all types of the risks. For this first they have to workout on the probability of happening the risks. This is known as level of the risk and can be calculated by applying the formula:

Level of the risk= consequence x probability

Level of the risks can be determined by very low, acceptable, high and very high. It can be analysed by what the company is doing to control the risks because these things can measure the decrement of the level of the risk, however not completely eliminate them.

Risk analysis can be illustrated as the matrix below:

4.3 Risk management plan to help mitigate potential risks

Once the company has been found the risk levels, Equitable funding Ltd. Should create a table of rating to evaluate the risk. Evaluation of a risk means decision making about its level and find ways to solve it. The company can find the risk rate by the formula mentioned above. Further they can solve the problem by the risk rating table below:

Once the company has identified the risk, it has to rank the risks in proper order and do the solution accordingly.

Risk mitigation

Identifying the key risks to the strategic development or operation of a school, the next step is to decide which of the following approaches could best be adopted to resolve or control them:

• reducing it
• avoiding it
• accepting it
• transferring it
• exploiting it

Conclusion

This report concluded that the risks are involved in every business or organisation which affect the profitability and productivity of the company. The organisation must have an effective risk management system to reduce the impact of the risks and avoid them to maintain the continuity of the business. Furthermore, the report includes the evaluation and risk management plan for the Equitable funding LTD.

References

Books and Journal

McNeil, A.J., Frey, R. and Embrechts, P., 2015. Quantitative risk management: Concepts, techniques and tools. Princeton university press.

Pritchard, C.L. and PMP, P.R., 2014. Risk management: concepts and guidance. CRC Press.

Glendon, A.I., Clarke, S. and McKenna, E., 2016. Human safety and risk management. Crc Press.

Wolke, T., 2017. Risk Management. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG.

Almeida, H., Hankins, K.W. and Williams, R., 2017. Risk management with supply contracts. The Review of Financial Studies, 30(12), pp.4179-4215.

Bromiley, P., McShane, M., Nair, A. and Rustambekov, E., 2015. Enterprise risk management: Review, critique, and research directions. Long range planning, 48(4), pp.265-276.

Cohen, J., Krishnamoorthy, G. and Wright, A., 2017. Enterprise risk management and the financial reporting process: The experiences of audit committee members, CFOs, and external auditors. Contemporary Accounting Research, 34(2), pp.1178-1209.

Aven, T., 2016. Risk assessment and risk management: Review of recent advances on their foundation. European Journal of Operational Research, 253(1), pp.1-13.

Wiengarten, F., Humphreys, P., Gimenez, C. and McIvor, R., 2016. Risk, risk management practices, and the success of supply chain integration. International Journal of Production Economics, 171, pp.361-370