Risk Management And Internal Control In The Changing Econmic Landscape
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RISK MANAGEMENT AND INTERNAL CONTROL IN CHANGING ECONOMIC LANDSCAPENik Mohd Hasyudeen Yusoff
Finance Function Excellence12 October 2009
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Agenda•Attaining business sustainability through risk
management•Changing business landscape and risk profile• Linking risks to internal control•Good governance factor in risk management•Mindset and culture in strengthening risk
management
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Attaining business sustainability through risk management
•A business:▫Needs to serve customers▫Needs to compete▫Operates in business environment
that keeps on changing▫Is affected by global developments▫Has stakeholders beyond
shareholders▫Generates profit through risk
taking (uncertainty)
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Attaining business sustainability through risk management
• Value creation is multi-facet and could be viewed from internal dimension as well as external dimension
• Balancing the value proposition to shareholders and stakeholders would be key to business sustainability
Value Creation Facets of BHP Billiton
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Leadership
Strategy
Values
People Processes
PlatformIntellectual assets
Business partners
Physical resources
Institutional partners
Value proposition
Functionality
Feelings
Financials
Internal resources Value creation
External network
Protocol
Customers
Inovastra’s view of value creation
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Attaining business sustainability through risk management
• Enterprise risk management encompasses:▫Aligning risk appetite and strategy▫Enhancing risk response decisions▫Reducing operational surprises
and losses▫ Identifying and managing multiple
and cross-enterprise risks▫Seizing opportunities▫ Improving deployment of capital
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• In ensuring business sustainability, the appreciation of risks and mitigation of risks at the strategic level is very important
•Key strategic risks are:▫Demand risk▫Competitive risk▫Capability risk
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•The business landscape should not only be view from a single dimension such as between a business and its customers only
•The drivers that change the landscape and the effect on all players should also be understood
Changing business landscape and risk profile
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YourBusiness
YourCustomers
YourCustomers
YourCustomers
YourSuppliers
YourNetworkPartners
YourCompetitors
YourCompetitors
Economy
Environment
Technology
Society
Politics
Changing business landscape and risk profile
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•Politics drive government policies which would affect the economy and business climate
•Global and regional political developments add to the complications of local politics
•How far would the G-20 initiatives would affect you?
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• The inter-linkages between economies could not be denied anymore and any changes in other places would affect the local economic conditions
• The globalisation and regionalisation of business require businesses be involved in more than one economic regions
• Do you think the AEC 2015 will affect you industry and your business?
Changing business landscape and risk profile
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•Rights•Health•Education•Security•Distribution of wealth•New lifestyles•Demography
•Which one of these elements would affect you business most?
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•Technology has been one of the factors that levels economies and markets
•Enables new business•Destroy existing business•Allows different ways of running
businesses
•Would Web 2.0 makes your business model obsolete?
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• The Green Economy would be more visible in the years to come
• Rules and regulation, domestically and in the market you serve, would require businesses to assess the business models
• Is your business already affected by environmental issues?
Changing business landscape and risk profile
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•Don’t be caught like a frog in the boiling pot!
Changing business landscape and risk profile
Turbulence
Chaos
Adjustment to business strategy
New normalityChaotic Continuum
Spurts of prosperity
Spurts of downturn
Some turbulence could be detectable some are not
Adapted from The Chaotics Model – Kotler and Caslione
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Series1
0
2
4
6
8• Turbulence is the
unpredictable and swift changes in an organisational internal or external environment that affects its performance
• A business arrives at a strategic inflection point when its old strategy no longer works and must be replaced by new one if it want to ascend to new heights
LevelOfChaos
Time
Strategic Inflection Point
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Linking risks to internal control• Internal control is broadly defined as a
process, effected by an entity's board of directors, management and other personnel, designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the achievement of objectives in the following categories:▫ Effectiveness and efficiency of
operations.▫ Reliability of financial reporting.▫ Compliance with applicable laws and
regulations.
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Linking risks to internal control
Policies and procedures to ensure management directives
are carried out effectively
Approvals and authorisations
Verification and reconciliation
Review of operations
Security of assets
Segregation of duties
To bring down the risks to the level within therisk appetite set by the Board
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• Giving up the illusion that you could predict the future is a very liberating moment. All you can do is to give yourself the capacity to respond to the only certainty of life – which is uncertainty. The creation of that capability is strategy.
Lord John Browne, Group Chief Executive of BP
Changing business landscape and risk profile
• Understanding and responding to changes is not really rocket science, however a lot of organisation fail to put in place a framework to understand and responding to changes
Scan change drivers
Assess impact
Develop strategic response
Implement changes
Review outcome
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Linking risks to internal control
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•Greed!▫Unmitigated excessive risk taking▫Independent directors turn dependent▫Executive incentives linked to short-
term performance▫Auditors putting business interests
above professional values
Good governance factor in risk management
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•The global financial crisis had surfaced governance lapses at various levels
•As key outcome of good governance is business sustainability, the roles played by the board and management are critical▫Strategy setting and risk appetite▫Risks assessment and mitigation▫Getting risk management functioning
across organisation and across formal and informal structures
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•A recent research by Northern Carolina State University discovered that:▫Over 60% of respondents believe that the
volume and complexity of risks have changed “Extensively” or “A Great Deal” in the last five years
▫ Just over a third of respondents (36%) note that they were caught off guard by an operational surprise “Extensively” or “A Great Deal” in the last five years
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Good governance factor in risk management▫44% of respondents have no enterprise-
wide risk management process in place and have no plans to implement one. An additional 18% without ERM processes in place indicate that they are currently investigating the concept, but have made no decisions about implementing ERM
▫Forty-three percent do not have their business functions establishing or updating assessments of risk exposures on any formal basis. Over 75% indicate that key risks are being communicated merely on an ad hoc basis at management meetings
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▫For those audit committees formally monitoring risks for the board, 19% only monitor financial risks, 63% monitor operational and compliance risks in addition to financial risks. Only 18% monitor all entity risks, including strategic risks
▫Despite strong interest in improving senior executive leadership in risk oversight, very few organizations (18%) have created a chief risk officer (CRO) position to lead and coordinate the organization’s risk oversight processes
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•Standards and Poor progress report of adoption of ERM in its rated companies:▫ there have been few instances of a firm’s
ability to articulate a risk tolerance or risk appetite that has been defined for the organization
▫firms’ focus on managing downside risks with little, if any, attention paid to the opportunities
▫ that most risk management activities remain “silo-based” and at the operational managers’ level
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Would reporting failure occur again?• Is there another way of guiding
people to perform?• MIA published a monograph on
human governance which focuses on the inside-out approach instead of parameter-driven rule-based governance
• Spiritual aspect is recognised
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Mindset and culture in strengthening risk management
• Tone from the boardroom▫ Indicate board’s priority▫Adequate oversight over management
implementation of risk management and internal control
• Linking compensation packages to risk management▫Would encourage the right culture and mindset▫Balance between business sustainability and
short term performance expectations
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Moving Forward Thoughts•Taking risk in natural in attaining
corporate objectives•Given the dynamic environment, risks
profile changes and corresponding response is necessary
•Risk management goes beyond ticking the box and need to be embrace holistically
•An inside-out approach would encourage the “doing the right thing” culture
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