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Consultant’s letter

This Paper was prepared for_________ taught by___________
The client’s address_____________
Dear Sirs,
This letter will explain in detail the importance of risk management and appropriate internal control strategies development for the security of information management systems in your organization.
Effective risk management contributes to the accomplishment of the organization’s mission. In the cyber-driven era, IT security perspective becomes crucial for risk management. COSO (2004) definition of IT system as a set of activities, involving people, processes, data, and technology contributing to the organization’s getting, generating, processing and communicating information to maintain accountability and benchmark its performance Continue reading...

Introduction

Decision Tree Analysis
Discussion of Decision Tree
Fault Tree
Discussion of Fault Tree
Conclusion
Works Cited
Introduction
House flipping, which is the buying, renovating and selling of property for profit, is a lucrative are of business and has attracted a number of entrepreneurs over the years. Profits can be realized quickly by the simple act of purchasing and reselling the undervalued property. Profits can also be realized by purchasing properties, carrying out renovations and then reselling them at higher prices. However, despite the avenues by which profits can be realized, house flipping is a risky venture. Some of the Continue reading...

Introduction

House flipping has its own advantages. Most importantly, there seems to be great potential in business, especially in terms of making profits. The profits can be viewed under two key categories. The first type of profits comes from a quick purchase and the reselling of undervalued property. The other groups of profits result from the fact that one can renovate a house and resell it for increased price. Besides the profits, the social aspect cannot be ignored. Most especially, working for oneself can be highly motivating and satisfying (Barta 1).
However, house flipping also comes with major risks. These Continue reading...

Background

Information Systems, or IS, exist throughout daily life and have become a major aspect of the majority of businesses. It encompasses many areas, including hardware, software, infrastructure, and individuals who receive specialized training to plan, control, coordinate, and make decisions to help achieve the objectives of an organization (BusinessDictionary, n.d.). IS comprises many roles, including Transaction Processing Systems (TPS), Customer Relationship Management Systems (CRM), Business Intelligence Systems, and Knowledge Management Systems (Davoren). An important role within IS is that of a Systems Analyst. An individual in this position receives specialized training in order to assess an organization’s procedures Continue reading...

The broader management implications of risk to an organization

Introduction:
This paper aims to define the learning from which project managers can learn lesson, implementation of learning and identification of gaps that exist in current studies.

Learning Lessons for Project Managers:

Increased internationalization increased the ratio of complexity and risk as well and managers in order to cope up with these risks such as technological, environmental, regulatory, and financial have to learn to deal with such risks. In organizations, managers understand the ways from which organizational risk can be managed. Managers have to deal with increased risk and when they face such situation make significant investment in risk management. Project managers can relate Continue reading...

Introduction

In this report, we will illustrate the portfolio construction process where each stock or asset will be selected considering the client’s risk-return objective. Since, the client is risk-averse; we will not expose the portfolios to high risk, and will try to construct the portfolio composition with the core fundamentals of the portfolio management, i.e. a highly diversified portfolio where weights of each portfolio will be selected on the basis of maximum return-minimum risk profile.

Section 1

a)Five companies to be considered while optimizing the portfolio are Apple Inc., Starbucks Coffee, Caterpillar Inc., Nike Inc. and General Motors. While selecting Continue reading...

A Reflection Paper

Risk Control as a Profession: A Reflection Paper
Introduction
In today’s competitive global environment, people need to pursue formal education to gain advanced knowledge and skills that fit the demands for a productive career. In an article published in Forbes, the ten most promising jobs for 2015 revealed that six are managerial positions in diverse fields, two in data base system, one in software engineering and also one in healthcare . Of the diverse kinds of professions, new endeavors emerge which could further be classified as worthy careers. Professions are defined as “occupations conducting interventions derived from scientific knowledge Continue reading...

Introduction

According to Burke, (2013), all projects are exposed to varying lengths and types of risks since the time they are planned their implementation. Failure of the projects can be attributed to the first minutes of the project lifecycle. In the process of the implementation of the project, risks are eminent. Example is, the financial resources may get drained away, facing stiff competition and others. In the initialization process of the project, if thoughtful preparation is not done, it may result in an ineffective work breakdown structure and inaccurate estimations. Control of the project implementation must be carried out to Continue reading...

Introduction

Risk has been defined, in simple terms, as a hazard of injury or loss. Risk means to expect some unfavorable future events that may bring harm to an organization.
Risk management involves identifying and recognizing, analyzing and taking initiatives to minimize and abolish the hazards of loss by an individual or an organization. This practice uses techniques and tools, including financial management techniques and policies, to manage and diversify the risks of losses. It is obvious that every business will face different kinds of risks, some of which could be uncontrollable and some can be controllable. Small and some Continue reading...

Risk, Crisis, and disaster management are factors that call for attention from all stakeholders involved in the welfare of the tourism and hospitality industrial sector. It is because this is a core industry in the world in which it contributes a significant percentage of the world’s economic development. Risk refers to the probability of something occurring that will have an effect on objectives. Disaster on the other hand refer to the serious disturbance of the functioning of humanity causing extensive human, material, or losses in the environmental which exceed the capacity of the pretentious communities to cope by Continue reading...

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It is important to eliminate risks in an organization to the extent that it does not severely affect the entirety or essential components of functioning of the organization. Changes in the landscape of information have resulted in more novel non-traditional risks to both the individuals as well as organizations. Such risks have already found their place in the warfare arena, in which nations are struggling to locate from a kinetic to an amorphous cyber landscape. All such changes are increasing the importance of privacy and security. Intelligibly, there has been a proportionate increase in the necessity for requirements Continue reading...

Risk management is an essential factor should someone wish to have his or her event to be successful. People have often assumed that success of an event is all about seeing it through. Contrary to this, for an event to be successful it should also be measured in terms of the safety available throughout the event (Agrawal, 2009). To be able to identify, assess, and prioritize the potential risks that could occur during the event is risk management. It also involves the adequate coordination as well as the economical application of the available resources in order monitor, minimize and Continue reading...

The paper focuses on an examination of the article Same Returns, Less Risk by Levisohn and Light. It occurs through a summary of the article and subsequent comparison of its contents to the chapter on risk and return.

Article Summary

The article depicts investors’ current hesitation to invest in various assets. It follows the impacts of risks associated with the recent financial crisis and other complications. The authors highlight the need to avoid hesitation in times of uncertainty in the market. Investors should take advantage of the market’s volatility; in such times, there is a high chance of ordinary investors Continue reading...

Introduction

Risk management is a significant aspect in any organization. It is also an important and significant process when handling healthcare organizations. It is important to understand the risks and quality issues in healthcare industry. Having this understanding will enable the managers to have plans that will allow them to have strategies to manage the risks. It will also enable the managers to set quality standards that will be followed in the entire organization. This paper will focus on quality and risk status of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia (BCBSGA).

Background information

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia is a Managed Continue reading...

Information systems security

Lyon (2008) stated that potential physical threats include situations and actions, which can cause physical damage for computer system. They are divided into three groups: internal, external and human.

Unstable power supply, elevated humidity  in the rooms housing the hardware;
Natural disaster (earthquake, landslide, fire, tsunami, inundation, volcanic eruption, contamination);
Theft/vandalism of infrastructure and hardware;
Errors of staff.
Listed physical threads consist of natural phenome non consequences, imperfection of system’s physical environment and human factor.
Talking about security for a small pharmacy that has recently opened within a shopping mall potential physical threats can include all of foregoing Continue reading...

ANALYSIS ON COLLATERALIZED LOAN OBLIGATIONS AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE ECONOMY

Financial institutions offer securities that are backed by a pool of debts mostly those that have low-interest rates. These financial products are called collateralized loan obligations (CLO). Collateralized loan obligations play an important role in influencing the economy. This is through the buying and selling of structured debt instruments by the investment banks and other financial institutions. The CLOs are popular since they can meet the desires of different investors in the economy. Both the conservative and high-risk investors are able to find the suitable debt for them since the tranches are tailored to meet their needs (Hunt 2002). Continue reading...

Introduction

The article titled as ‘Providing physical fitness programs to at-risk youth’ by Collingwood (1997) has placed its central emphasis on at-risk youth, a term used to explain youth involved in high risk activities such as smoking, drinking, gambling and other deviant behaviors. While the existing literature focuses upon the reasons and consequences of developing high risk behaviors (Brendtro, Brokenleg & Van Bockern, 1990), Collingwood (1997) has brought a new topic in relation to at-risk youth. The article talks about the role played by physical fitness program in improving the condition of at-risk youth, by emphasizing on the need of such Continue reading...

Finance

About Collateralized Loan Obligations (CLO)
The new financial instrument in the industry that is backed by the pool of debts that often constitutes low rated corporate loans. These securities are similar to Collateralized Debt Obligations except for the different type of underlying loans pooled against the security issue. CLO’s were created with the objective of lowering the cost of borrowing for the businesses and also to reduce the risk of banks as the risk associated with underlying loans are distributed amongst the investors.
CLO’s payments are also made in tranches which are also known as cash waterfalls Continue reading...

Section 1: Five companies’ stocks selection

Rationale for the five stocks selection and analysis key information about each company’s background
BP p.l.c.
BP P.l.c. operate an integrated gas and oil company. It has three segments of operation: Upstream, Downstream, and Rosneft. The segment of Upstream engages in the exploration of oil and natural gas, development of the field, and production; transportation of midstream, and processing and storage; and trade and marketing of natural gas. The segment of Downstream manufacturers, refines, markets, supplies, transports and trades in petroleum, crude oil and petrochemicals products and services that are related to retail and wholesale customers. The segment Continue reading...

Incentives, Investment Decisions & Firm Performance

In financial management, the agency dilemma or principal–agent problem occurs in an event when one entity or person (the agent) makes decisions on behalf of another entity or person (the principal). This dilemma exists because the manager (agent), sometimes, is motivated to make decisions in his own best interests instead of those in favor of his principal authority . Common examples of Principal-Agent relationship include corporate management of any organization (agent) and all of its shareholders (principal). This relationship is also found when politicians (agent) are obliged, as representatives, to work for the benefit and welfare of their voters ( Continue reading...