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The topic of Business Continuity Management is growing dramatically in importance to corporate executives, as the nature and seriousness of the threats to the business sector continue to be revealed. This book is both a clear and insightful presentation of the concepts of Business Continuity Management that should become a part of every executives bookshelf. - John Copenhaver, Chairman, The Disaster Recovery Institute International
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from the author.......2006-05-30
The circumstances that lead Julia and I to write this book are interesting and help to explain what it is, and why it is quite different from other books. The Institute of Risk Management, who are the International Institute for vocational risk management education, asked me to be their lead examiner on business continuity. The first task was to set out to find a textbook that takes the organisation wide and holistic risk view on business resilience. I needed to find one that had the vision to see that business continuity as something that includes, but is now so very much more than, the fast replacement of technology and workstations.
I do believe that this is so important, not least because the science of business continuity must keep pace with change amongst our own `stakeholders', i.e. the organisations that employ us and also their own stakeholders. If we do not evolve and take our rightful place in the strategic thinking of the organisation, we will increasingly be sidelined from the crucial and the real resilience debates; and others will be asked to manage stakeholder expectations.
The modern day organisational structure has so many more single points of risk that potentially offer complete destruction than the business models of the 1990s. The supply and the delivery chains are outsourced, the intellectual assets are much more critical and diverse and are, even in themselves, outsourced. The workforce is managed by third parties, and the double-barrelled risks of brand and speed are the real dependencies at the heart of the modern-day organisational promise. It is no coincidence that the board, the risk manager, investor, regulator, auditor, as well as the business continuity manager, increasingly sees resilience an ever more important concern amongst their worry beads.
In spite of asking many friends and fellow professionals to search out a book for me that captures that wide-business resilience , and thus bring together as a team the various managers concerned with risk, we failed to find even one.
The upshot was that Julia and I set out to write one. This was not only to provide the Institute with their needed textbook but because we feel strongly that the business continuity industry does need to move on into the 21st century. We hope that the book will encourage that process and encourage co-operation between erstwhile silos of risk management that, in isolation can be so dangerous to today's organisations.
We have written the book therefore with a view, not only to aid students to develop their understanding, but also as a good read for everybody who has a responsibility to ensure that their function, public service or profit making, can continue to deliver on its promises.
David Kaye
FCII FRSA FBCI MIRM
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An analytical handbook for investors, managers, directors and stakeholders
"Comprehensive in scope and cross-disciplinary in analysis, Governance and Risk examines the problem of corporate governance from a wide variety of perspectives. The authors begin with the premise – correctly in my view – that corporate governance is, at is core, an important risk factor for any corporation. Through this conceptual prism, they employ economic, legal and social analyses – and draw on examples from 12 jurisdictions – to provide fresh insight into how we should best understand and govern the inherently conflicting interests that comprise the modern corporation. Anyone seeking a rigorous analysis of these issues – from directors, managers and lawyers to shareholders, corporate and community activists – should include this volume in their reading. It is an important addition to the corporate governance literature in this post-Enron age."
¿Ira Millstein is a senior partner in the international law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
"This is a courageous and successful effort to classify what has never before been analyzed and presented in such a comprehensible manner."
¿Robert A.G. Monks, Principal, LENS Asset Management
"Governance and Risk is an excellent piece of work. It is a comprehensive and carefully written manual that will be an invaluable source of information for managers and investors. It deserves careful study by anyone with an interest in the management of firms. It should make a significant contribution to the improvement of corporate governance of corporations around the world."
¿ Colin P. Mayer, Professor, Said Business School, University of Oxford
"I have found Governance and Risk to be one of the most comprehensive surveys of the field. It is an excellent reference work."
¿J. Mark Mobius, PhD, President, Templeton Emerging Markets Fund, Inc.
"This is an important, timely book which brings much needed rigour and discipline to the analysis of corporate governance practices. If you are looking for a reliable guide through the confusing maze of corporate governance, this book is an excellent place to start."
¿Paul Coombes, Director, Corporate Governance Practice, McKinsey & Company, Inc.
Effective corporate governance has long been viewed as essential for healthy capital markets. Careless and inefficient governance practices, however, have thrust the governance debate from the shadows to the forefront, and corporate governance can now be recognized as a stand-alone risk factor.
Many market participants now question whether true self-governance is possible or even realistic in today's era of razor-thin profit margins and bloated executive paychecks.
This all-encompassing book compiled and edited by George Dallas, managing director and global practice leader of Standard & Poor's Governance Services unit. It includes contributions by senior members of Standard & Poor's Governance Services group, as well as from other experts in the area of corporate governance. The book offers the following benefits:
- Provides a wide-ranging discussion of methodologies and criteria relating to corporate governance analysis;
- Brings together diverse country environments in a common analytical framework;
- Seamlessly links up-to-date conceptual and theoretical thinking about governance to practical performance issues;
- Explores broader themes of governance-sustainable development, directors and officers insurance, behavioral aspects, and approaches to governance in managed funds and governments.
Highly publicized collapses in governance have replaced calm and complacency with vigilance and even stridence, often obscuring valuable and necessary aspects of governance that are long-overdue for discussion and review.
Governance and Risk presents a balanced and rational approach to one of today's most emotional topics. It also outlines an analytical model for both evaluating the governance practices of individual corporations and protecting yourself or your organization from the effects of incomplete, inaccurate, and potentially misguided practices.
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Most Comprehensive Framework of Corporate Governance as a Risk Factor Published.......2005-09-18
This handbook presents the most comprehensive framework for corporate governance as a risk factor that I have ever seen. I have several books on my shelves that compare corporate governance systems in the US, UK, Japan, Germany and France but this one also includes Brazil, China, India, Korea, Russia and Turkey.
I also have plenty of handbooks for directors that describe various duties but Governance and Risk takes the most systematic approach. Each factor is accompanied by instruction, questions, as well as examples of strong and weak profiles.
The premise of rating analysis is that we can isolate and diagnose corporate governance factors that complement traditional credit and equity analysis. This book cites the usual studies, such as Corporate Governance and Equity Prices by Paul Gompers and Andrew Metrick, and a several I had missed, such as Disclosure Practices of Foreign Companies Interacting with U.S. Markets by Tarun Khanna, Krishna Palepu and Suraj Srinivasan.
The most unusual feature of the book is the large number of chapters that lay out the analytical framework used by Standard & Poor's Governance Services in its governance scoring and evaluation process for individual companies, starting with a thorough discussion of limitations. I was a little surprised to read this, assuming they would keep such information under lock and key.
The scoring methodology evaluates roughly 80 analytical factors. In contrast to a checkbox approach, weightings are not necessarily fixed. For example, share registration with an independent body may be relatively meaningless where common practice, such as in the U.S., but takes on greater weight in Russia, where companies serving as their own share registrars have been known to erase contentious shareholders from their books.
At Amazon.com use the "search inside" feature. You'll see the Contents drills in to the micro level in chapters such as
Ownership Structure and External Influences
Shareholder Rights and Stakeholder Relations
Transparency, Disclosure, and Audit
Board Structure and Effectiveness
Other parts cover macro issues and wider themes, various countries, and case studies. I was pleased to see that contrary to CalPERS' practice, for example, S&P believes it is "inappropriate to mechanically limit individual country assessments by some form of sovereign ceiling." S&P's system provides a positive incentive for individual firms to be the best they can be, even if headquartered in a weak country environment. By voluntarily adopting higher standards, such as listing in other countries, such firms can lower funding costs and provide growth opportunities.
The book treats this topic and most others with a fair degree of depth, discussing SEC disclosure requirements (20F filing), presentation of US GAAP accounts, more aggressive enforcement authorities, etc. Now, if I can get the CalPERS board to read this, perhaps they will stop blacklisting foreign companies with good corporate governance. CalPERS should take a country's risk factors into account but should rate individual companies on one scale and countries on another.
The S&P governance analysis isn't designed to uncover fraud and the authors write that the outlined evaluation "stops short of being an audit." Yet, I haven't seen such a thorough assessment tool elsewhere in book form. Standard & Poor's Governance Services recently announced they would no longer provide public corporate governance scores for U.S. companies. However, with Governance and Risk as their guide, any company could do its own self-assessment. It may lack the comparison data that S&P has no doubt compiled but those choosing to us this tool will have a laundry list of excellent questions, as well as profiles of effective vs. ineffective practices.
Investors and other stakeholders will find the book a ready reference for factors to consider when investing, voting proxies, or looking up common practices by country. While I am sad to see S&P cease its governance services in the U.S., I am delighted they have left such an important legacy in Governance and Risk. I know that I will be referencing the book for many years to come.
Packed with Knowledge!.......2004-05-19
This may be the most thorough and methodical exposition of corporate governance and risk management now available. It is hard to imagine a facet of the subject this book does not address. Sustainable development, cross-border governance issues, directors' and officers' insurance, theory, practice - it's all here. The book does not aspire to be anything but comprehensive and factual. The section authors, each an expert in his or her subject, eschew any pretense of courting the reader with easy-to-read prose. They write not for the casual reader or the educated lay person, but for the professional with a consummate need to know the subject. That said, we believe this book should be part of every major corporate or business school library; it will have a long shelf life.
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Analyzing Banking Risk provides a comprehensive overview of topics dealing with the assessment, analysis, and management of financial risks in banking. This book focuses on risk-management principles and stresses that key players in the corporate governance process are accountable for managing the different dimensions of financial risk.
This second edition remains faithful to the objectives of the original publication (Analyzing Banking Risk). A significant new addition is the inclusion of chapters on the management of the treasury function and management of a stable liquidity investment portfolio. New material also consists of a discussion of proprietary trading activities and asset management liability components.
Chapters include:
Organization of the Treasury Function
Investment / Stable Portfolio Management
Proprietary Trading / Market Risk Management
Asset-Liability Management Components
Key Players in the Corporate Governance and Risk Management Process
Transparency in the Financial Statements of Banks
Managing the risks associated with the banking industry today has become more difficult. The approach used in this publication provides a framework for identifying the key players in the risk-management process and discussing their accountability for the various dimensions of the financial and other risk management processes.
The hardcover edition includes a CD-ROM (see ISBN 0-8213-5465-5).
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Hennie van Greuning and Sonja Brajovic Bratanovic, authors The business of banking can be defined as that of a number of key players managing various dimensions of a series of financial risks and operational risk. In this revised edition , the authors have added a chapter on the organization of the Treasury Function Analyzing Banking Risk provides a comprehensive overview of topics dealing with the assessment, analysis, and management of financial risks in banking. The publication emphasizes risk-management principles and stresses that key players in the corporate governance process are accountable for managing the different dimensions of financial risk. Chapters include: Organization of the Treasury Function Investment / Stable Portfolio Management Proprietary Trading / Market Risk Management Asset-Liability Management Components Key Players in the Corporate Governance and Risk Management Process Transparency in the Financial Statements of Banks Managing the risks associated with the banking industry today has become more difficult. The approach used in this publication provides a framework for identifying the key players in the risk-management process and discussing their accountability for the various dimensions of the financial and other risk management processes.
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The Wiley CIA Exam Review is the best source to help readers prepare for the Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) exam, covering the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and more. Wiley CIA Exam Review, Volume 1: Internal Audit Activity’s Role in Governance, Risk, and Control covers establishing a risk-based plan, understanding the internal audit activity’s role in organizational governance, performing other internal audit roles and responsibilities, planning an audit, and more. Every volume in the Wiley CIA Exam Review series offers a successful learning system of visual aids and memorization techniques. Each volume is a comprehensive, single-source preparation tool that features theories and concepts, indicators that help candidates allot study time, full coverage of the IIA’s Attribute and Performance Standards, and in-depth of theory and practice.
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This timely new book explains what legal risk means in the context of the financial markets and why concerns about legal risk have grown in recent years. It also considers how legal risk is intended to be addressed as part of operational risk under the new Basel II regulatory regime. McCormick traces the origins of legal risk as a phenomenon in the global financial markets, particularly in the UK market, addressing how concerns about it have been dealt with in light ofbeen landmark cases such as Hazell v Hammersmith and Fulham and Re Charge Card. The formation of The Legal Risk Review Committee by the Bank of England and the work of similar organizations, the Financial Law Panel at the Financial Markets Law Committee are considered. The book analyses the principal components of legal risk, i.e. litigation/regulatory action risk and defective documentation, as well as related risks, such as reputational risk and political risk. Analytical consideration is also given to current and recent legal risk concerns (in relation to e.g. conflicts of interest, securities held through intermediaries, compliance with anti-terrorism/money-laundering laws, settlement risk etc.) as well as older issues regarding the efficacy of close-out, and multilateral, netting arrangements and insolvency set-off and related legislation and case law. The book also features a section on the management of legal risk including the role of in-house counsel and compliance and the related regulatory aspects.
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The Business Guide to Legal Literacy bridges the gap between law and business by translating legalese into language that makes business sense and offers a new way to think about the law¾as a useful business tool. The book is filled with dozens of real-life examples that illustrate a step-by-step process for avoiding lawsuits and transforming potential business legal problems that threaten growth and profitability into opportunities for
· Building stronger business relationships
· Delivering sustainable shareholder value
· Improving competitive advantage
· Embedding compliance into the corporate culture to achieve organizational excellence
This much-needed resource makes the connection between law, business, decision-making psychology, quality management, organizational change, and leadership and shows how these disciplines influence the company’s legal risk profile. It tackles legal literacy on both the employee and organizational levels and identifies the infrastructure needed to support legal literacy and promote effective communications throughout the organization.
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The Business Guide to Legal Literacy: What Every Manager Should Know About the Law.......2006-08-14
This book provides a refreshing perspective of the legal pitfalls that face business managers, sales personnel or anyone within an organization who maintains contact with their customers. The discussion of smoking guns gives clear and concise examples of what not to say or write and provides a means to develop competent communication both with the customer and internal to the company without the "litigation lighning rods" that can happen in our fast-paced business world. This is a must read for business majors entering the workplace, as well as all sales and business managers. The writer has a sense of humor which keeps you turning the page.
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The book sets forth the economic rationale for international financial regulation and what role, if any, international regulation can play in effectively managing systemic risk while providing accountability to all affected nations. The book suggests that a particular type of global governance structure is necessary to have more efficient regulation of the international financial system.
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A FUNDAMENTAL BOOK ON WORLD ECONOMY.......2006-08-12
THE AUTHORS ARE VERY WORRIED ABOUT THE PARLOUS STATE OF THE WORLD FINANCIAL SYSTEM AFTER "FREE CAPITAL" PRIVATIZATION, DEREGULATION, AND THE GOALS AND SHIBBOLETHS OF THE MAJOR GOVERMENTS FOR THE PAST DECADE. THIS IS A TECHNICAL ACCOUNT OF WHY THE STATUS QUO WILL VERY LIKELY PRODUCE DISASTER. DESPITE THE INHIBITED TONE OF THE WRITING, THIS IS A WARNING TO ALL: ECONOMIC DISASTER IS THE MOST PROBABLE OUTCOME OF ALL THE CHANGES THAT HAVE BEEN MADE IN THE WORLD ECONOMY SINCE 1971 AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE BRETTON WOODS SYSTEM. A VERY IMPORTANT BOOK.
Review in Foreign Affairs:.......2006-02-17
This book finds serious deficiencies with the by now extensive system of committees, organizations, rules, and guidelines that have emerged to govern and manage the international financial system. Concretely, it suggests that the existing framework, based on the supervision of individual financial institutions (especially banks), fails to take adequate account of the negative macroeconomic consequences that may flow from the financial failures of particular institutions. Even worse, emerging rules (such as the Basel II guidelines for minimum bank capital) may actually increase systemic fragility by making financial institutions more homogeneous in their behavior, leading to abrupt disruptions (financial crises) following periods of apparent but fragile stability. In making its central argument, the book offers informative coverage of the International Monetary Fund, the Basel committees on banking, the Asian financial crises, bankruptcy, the legal aspects of the system for settlement of payments, and many other relevant topics.
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