Insuring Your Business - How To Make Sure You're Covered - This article contains some guidelines to help owners of home businesses to properly insure their business.
Publisher: The Small Business Journal     Author: The Small Business Journal   

Keeping Business Going - Following the terrorist attacks, affected companies got a harsh lesson about the state of their contingency plans. Business recovery is a process that executives everywhere need to prepare for.
Publisher: Financial Executive Online Edition     Author: Jeffrey Marshall   

Kit and Caboodle - Understanding the skepticism about enterprise risk management.
Publisher: CFO.com     Author: Russ Banham   

Lessons from a Swiss Bank - Risk models for capital assets and credit are widely used based on generally accepted principles, but operational risk is a less well-defined area. A former CFO at a European bank describes the principles used to set up such a system.
Publisher: Strategic Finance     Author: Ramona Dzinkowski   

Looking for Risk in All the Right Places - The old adage “don’t go looking for trouble” may be good advice, but not in risk management. Periodic audits of the risks that stem from every nook and cranny of the enterprise can provide a competitive advantage.
Publisher: Businessfinancemag.com     Author: Joanne Sammer   

Managing Risk: An Enterprise-wide Approach - Managing risk on an integrated and enterprise-wide basis is a vital issue confronting executives. The CFO is a key decision maker in crafting the company's strategy.
Publisher: Financial Executive Online Edition     Author: Thomas L. Barton, William G. Shenkir and Paul L. Walker   

Model Error - This article describes various models and discusses model errors characteristic of two types -- valuation models for individual securities, and models of market risk. It also reviews a number of practical issues related to model development and describes the approach taken by bank regulators to model risk.
Publisher: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston     Author: Katerina Simons   

New Risks, New Solutions - Today’s risk managers must work more closely with the insurance industry and new trading partners to develop ways of managing contemporary risks.
Publisher: Businessfinancemag.com     Author: Roundtable Participants   

On Your Mark, Get Set, Negotiate - The first hard market for insurance in almost 15 years has underwriters jittery. Carriers that don’t remember past market cycles are slapping higher prices on all renewals. The panic creates new risks for businesses — and new opportunities.
Publisher: Businessfinancemag.com     Author: Richard H. Gamble   

Parable of the Commons: A cautionary tale of environmental liability - Twelve steps management should take to positively manage environmental issues, illustrated by the story of a company that ignored them at its peril.
Publisher: Graziadio Business Report     Author: Michael Magasin