Fundamentals of Risk Management

Kate Boothroyd is the Director of KB Risk Consulting Limited, a risk management consultancy. She is an accredited Institute of Risk Management trainer and lead developer on the IRM's updated Enterprise Risk Management Certificate. She is based in Huddersfield, UK. Clive Thompson was Deputy Chair of the IRM until 2020. He has been a risk manager and consultant delivering projects globally and is a Certified Fellow of the IRM. He is based in West Sussex, UK.

Section - ONE: Introduction to risk management;


Chapter - 01: What is risk and why is it important?;
Chapter - 02: Risk as an opportunity as well as a threat;
Chapter - 03: Risk management standards;
Chapter - 04: The four steps of risk management;


Section - TWO: Enterprise risk management;


Chapter - 05: Risk management in context;
Chapter - 06: Enterprise risk management;
Chapter - 07: The background, aims and principles of risk management;
Chapter - 08: Risk architecture and strategy;
Chapter - 09: Roles, responsibilities, and documentation;
Chapter - 10: Implementing enterprise risk management;
Chapter - 11: Processes for risk management;


Section - THREE: Defining context and objectives and assessing risk;


Chapter - 12: The context for ERM;
Chapter - 13: Setting objectives for ERM;
Chapter - 14: Assessing risks: Risk identification, considerations, causes, and consequences;
Chapter - 15: Classifying risks;
Chapter - 16: Assessing risks: Risk analysis;
Chapter - 17: Different lenses for considering risk;
Chapter - 18: Assessing risks: Risk evaluation;


Section - FOUR: Risk response: monitor, review, and report;


Chapter - 19: Managing and responding to risk;
Chapter - 20: Controlling downside risk;
Chapter - 21: Risk treatment controls for threats;
Chapter - 22: Controlling upside risk;
Chapter - 23: Ongoing monitoring and review;
Chapter - 24: Reporting on risk management;


Section - FIVE: Decision making: Risk culture, appetite and tolerance;


Chapter - 25: Culture and behaviours;
Chapter - 26: Risk appetite and tolerance;


Section - SIX: Corporate governance and assurance;


Chapter - 27: Introducing corporate governance;
Chapter - 28: Stakeholders, ethics, and corporate social responsibility;
Chapter - 29: Different approaches to risk management;
Chapter - 30: The control environment;
Chapter - 31: Internal audit activities;
Chapter - 32: Risk assurance techniques;


Section - SEVEN: Organisational environment: Resilience and sustainability;


Chapter - 33: Strategy and the risk environment;
Chapter - 34: The organization’s business model, visions and values;
Chapter - 35: Resilience;
Chapter - 36: Surviving shocks and disruption: ERM, BCP and resilience;
Chapter - 37: Sustainability;


Section - EIGHT: Different approaches;


Chapter - 38: Insurance;
Chapter - 39: Banking, legal, supply chain, and IT approaches to risk management;
Chapter - 40: New approaches to the four steps of risk management;


Section - NINE: Adding value;


Chapter - 41: How risk management adds value;
Chapter - 42: Maturity and continual improvement;
Chapter - 43: Risk practitioner competencies;
Chapter - 44: How risk practitioners add value