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Enterprise Risk Management
Does your management view risk management as an obligation or as a competitive business advantage? The scope for assessing and evaluating risks and controls is evolving as organizations begin to understand risk management as an important tool for strategic improvement. Some of the external factors affecting risk besides regulatory pressures are increased use of outsourcing, reliance on technology, and an increased awareness of risk and controls by key stakeholders.
EKS&H’s Enterprise Risk Management process entails a thorough assessment of an organization’s financial, operational, and environmental risks, including reputation and compliance. By leveraging an organization’s existing risk assessment and external compliance efforts and the investment already undertaken, EKS&H builds a foundation of understanding regarding:
- Identification of critical organization strategies and objectives and inherent risks that may disrupt achievement
- Optimized integration between people, processes, and technology
- Alignment of the organization’s risk appetite into operational initiatives and anti-fraud efforts
- Opportunities for on-going control monitoring procedure enhancement, including internal controls self-assessment and training programs
- Opportunities to mitigate significant risks and correct control gaps through the optimum mix of manual and automated controls.
Clients who use EKS&H’s enterprise risk management services enjoy many benefits, including:
- Alignment of risk appetite with corporate strategy and growth objectives
- Increased ability to prioritize risks, align resources and respond accordingly
- Timely identification of potential events that may result in an unacceptable risk, and
- Strengthened corporate governance through increased communication of risk identification and monitoring expectations, accountability and responsibility