Types of Risk
Introduction
There are all types of risks involved if one is small business manager or a manager of a larger corporation. The responsibilities on a day-to-day basis can be vital towards the success of the organization. The company facilities can be associated with working capital, production, and sales. The manager would need to reflect a common awareness of the potential risks that can be involved. Although, there can always be a risk involved in an organization, the manager would and should have the capability to identify the type of risks that the company can surface. In this paper, one will provide a further explanation on the various risks and along with presenting a way for financial managers on a moderate approach towards these risks.
Property Risks Property risks defined under a business can comprise of various things that can cause damage to a property of the business. For example, a business can be damaged due to a flood. According to Pielke, Downton, & Miller, (2002), “Flood damage has increased in the United States, despite local efforts and federal encouragement to mitigate flood hazards and regulate development in flood-prone areas” (p. 1). Although flood insurance is not federally required, in some cases, individuals can be financially vulnerable to floods. If and when flood insurance is available, disaster assistance is usually a loan that one must repay with interest. In essence, there is not a sure way to avoid things from
However, two known authors in this field of study believe that companies with low business risk obtains factors of production at a lower cost which may also pave to the ability of the firm to operate more efficiently (Amit & Wernerfet, 1990). Therefore, many stockholders faced a high of uncertainty; this is because some companies do not have the financial strengths to cover its debts that even may result to bankruptcy.
The key risks that the company faces are economic conditions, competition, key employees, suppliers, availability of credit, financial risks, business continuity, revenue dependence, cost saving, leased property portfolio, as well as, some other minor risks. The amount of risks faced by the company is high, and the realization of those risks is a good possibility in light of the performance of the company.
At the end all the risk are finance related, because the liability’s cost money and this will have an effect in the company’s earnings, so what is important is not only to try to avoid such events but also to be prepare in case they happen and have a plan, is like the saying “Hope for the best but be prepare for the worst”.
Within business, there will always be operational risks to consider. "Operating risk is the basic
The safety aspect for risk management will evaluate the potential for human loss of life and or injury. The potential for major incident or accident, such as fire, explosion, or spill, including environmental damage. The necessity for security within the company is a highly need aspect of safety that can lead to risk. The revenues aspect for risk management will evaluate the loss of customer base, recovering of capital loss and recognizing uncoverable capital loss, and loss of opportunity in marketing of the product. The necessity for revenue risk management is key. The costs aspect for risk management will evaluate the costs that were incurred due to preventable problems. Also, costs due to increased warehouse space, vendor changes, and discount changes. A significant risk in cost for this company is the cost of legal defense. The legal aspect for risk management will evaluate regulatory compliance failures and actions that could result
The following observation will describe the decisions made by a financial analyst who is working for the capital budget department at Caledonia Products. The organization has asked Team B to evaluate the potential risk involved in an upcoming transaction and identify several options in how to proceed. Because this is the team’s first assignments dealing with risk analyzes the team has been ask to further explain the details. The organization analysis will focus on free cash flows, projection of cash flows, projects initial outlay, cash flow diagram, net present value, internal rate of return, and if the
Risks are probabilities that could render a business to have lower than anticipated profits. This could be due to various and numerous factors. The identification, acknowledgement and acceptance of these risks are fundamental to every business, Coffeeville in particular. This report will outline CoffeeVille’s exisiting Risk Management Policy. It will also determine its effectiveness with regards to risk identification, management and control.
Potential key risks have been identified in the earlier sections of this project as this is task three of assessment number one. There are four risks that the board have particularly picked according to the level of risk and its likelihood that could affect the company. These risks include the following:
Business risk refers to the chance a business's cash flows are not enough to cover its operating expenses like cost of goods sold, rent and wages. Unlike financial risk, business risk is independent of the amount of debt a business owes (Guzman & Media, 2015). Financial risk refers to the chance a business's cash flows are not enough to pay creditors and fulfill other financial responsibilities (Guzman & Media, 2015). Financial risk is the additional business risk concentrated on common stockholders when financial leverage is used and depends on the amount of debt and preferred stock financing (Brigham & Ehrhardt, 2014).
Risk refers to a likelihood, probability, a chance that a loss may occur in a given organization. Most of the times, there is a high risk when there is vulnerability. In this case, vulnerability refers to a weakness that the organization has. Risk assessment refers to the process of identification of potential hazards and proper analysis of the expected losses if those hazards occur (Homeland Security, n.d.). Risk assessment as a way of profiling risk according to impact to the organization. Some organizations have business impact analysis exercises geared towards determination of potential hazards based risk assessment approaches. Organizations’ risk differ depending on the size and the type of business they are doing. The disparity in organizations’ risk call for different adaptation of risk assessment approaches. Even with the disparities of the businesses, proper risk management not only ranks the risks according to the seriousness but also identifies the best methods to control risks in an organization.
Usually, the most common risk management strategies can be subdivided into multi-stage approach in order to obtain a better impression of the underlying risks and thus to increase the probability of mitigating the firm’s risks properly and successfully. Also General Motors Corporation has developed various rules and guidelines to help manage minimize the risks associated with their business and investment operations.
Identify the potential risks which affect the company and manage these risks within its risk appetite;
The company subject to various risk in many field such as economic, political, legal, social, industry, business and financial condition.
*Nonetheless, in order to provide a structure for risk analysis, and to help with the allocation of the responsibility for managing the different types of risk, risks need to be categorized properly. In a manufacturing company the individual perspective of a risk management program would be to minimize injury to staff, to customers, or the local community. Otherwise, the focus may be on the financial risks, which is an important part of the business or the impact on shareholder financial returns. Many manufacturing businesses are motivated on keeping a good reputation, and any potential damage to the business reputation could have a long term effects, therefore, the risks could impact on the reputation of the organization which will need to be identified and controls implemented to reduce the potential risks. When a manufacturing business wants to understand and control their risks, every manufacturing process there will be a need for a
Financial risk for the hotel includes money such as the capital availability, the cash-flow management, the investment evaluation and the credit default.