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13
Feb
2014

What We Learn From History ………

When George Bernard Shaw stated: “We learn from history that we learn nothing from history” he was pretty accurate.  What I had hoped, however, is that the lessons of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) would prevent the risk taking approach to financial due diligence that led to the meltdown of the global economy. It was with interest, therefore, that I

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13
Feb
2014

Risk Treatments in Risk Management

Transcription: In this session I'm going to talk about consequence. In particular, how do we analyse consequence so that we can incorporate it into our risk register so that it's meaningful. I've come across many organisations who believe that what we need to put into our risk register is the worst case scenario in terms of consequences. There are some

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06
Feb
2014

Linking Risk Management to Compliance

In this session I want to talk about linking your risk management program to your compliance program. I know it’s an area that a lot of organisations struggle with. First of all, let’s talk about your compliance program and what it involves and how you can actually make it more effective. The first thing we need to understand as an

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05
Feb
2014

The Risk Transfer Myth

Over the last few years I have worked with many organisations with varying degrees of outsourced/contracted services.  I support this approach – if it isn’t core to the achievement of your objectives or if the expertise resides outside of your business then outsourcing is positive. The purpose of this blog, however, isn’t to discuss the merits or otherwise of outsourcing

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04
Feb
2014

The long term risks of short term fixes

Welcome. Today I’m going to talk about the long-term risks of short-term fixes. And this is really quite an issue for a number of organisations both in the public and the private sector. What we find often when we have an event or we start to see some issues within the organisation, we look to either divert money from something

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29
Jan
2014

The importance of current controls in Risk Management

Jan, 29, 2014
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Transcript: Today’s topic is talking about current controls. Now, these are like the red-headed step children of risk management. We tend to ignore the current controls that we have in place within an organisation to deal with risks that might occur. Over time within organisations, things have happened, events have happened. It might be fraud, it might be safety incidents.

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29
Jan
2014

Is Risk Based Internal Auditing (RBIA) the “Right” Term or should it be Consequence Based Internal Auditing (CBIA)?

Okay - maybe I am about to open a can of worms here - but I think that RBIA may be a misnomer. Don't get me wrong, I am a firm believer in the internal audit program being aligned to the risk management program - in fact neither will be as effective if they are not intrinsically linked. My argument

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