Synopses & Reviews
Making Enterprise Risk Management Pay Off shows how top companies are transforming risk management into an integrated, continuous, broadly focused discipline that identifies and assesses risks more effectively, responds more precisely, and discovers not just "downsides" but breakthrough opportunities as well. Through five wide-ranging case studies - Chase Manhattan, Microsoft, DuPont, Unocal, and United Grain Growers - you'll learn powerful new risk management techniques that span the entire enterprise, and deliver unprecedented business value.
Synopsis
This book presents a non-quantitative, highly accessible, case-study approach to enterprise risk management. Designed for every financial professional, it offers unprecedented insight into the processes and strategies that have proven successful at the world's leading companies. The authors introduce the field of enterprise risk management, offer a concise overview of the contemporary techniques involved, and analyze and synthesize the key lessons that can be learned from the experiences of leading global companies. Next, they present five in-depth case studies that cut across a wide range of industries: Chase Manhattan in financial services, E.I. Dupont De Nemours & Co. in manufacturing, Microsoft in information technology, United Grain Growers, Ltd. in food, and Unocal in energy. Part of a new series of books sponsored by the Financial Executives Research Foundation, a nonprofit affiliate of Financial Executives International, the preeminent professional association for senior financial executives, representing 15,000 financial executives worldwide. The Research Foundation, established in 1944, funded the research and case studies in this book.
Synopsis
Making Enterprise Risk Management Pay Off shows how top companies are transforming risk management into an integrated, continuous, broadly focused discipline that identifies and assesses risks more effectively, responds more precisely, and discovers not just "downsides" but breakthrough opportunities as well. Through five wide-ranging case studies - Chase Manhattan, Microsoft, DuPont, Unocal, and United Grain Growers - you'll learn powerful new risk management techniques that span the entire enterprise, and deliver unprecedented business value.
About the Author
THOMAS L. BARTON is Kathryn and Richard Kip Professor of Accounting and KPMG Research Fellow of Accounting at the University of North Florida. He holds a Ph.D. in accounting from the University of Florida and is a certified public accountant (CPA). Dr. Barton has over 35 professional publications, including research articles in
Barron's,
Decision Sciences,
Abacus,
Advances in Accounting,
CPA Journal, and
Management Accounting. He coauthored the 1998 Financial Executives Research Foundation study,
Open Book Management: Creating an Ownership Culture. He received the Lybrand Silver Medal for his article, "A System is Born: Management Control at American Transtech." Dr. Barton is the creator of the Minimum Total Propensity to Disrupt method of allocating gains from cooperative ventures. This method has been the subject of several articles in Decision Sciences. He is also a recognized expert in the application of management controls to highly creative activities. Dr. Barton has taught over 100 professional development seminars and has extensive consulting experience with a wide cross section of organizations in the public and private sectors. Dr. Barton is the recipient of several teaching awards for his undergraduate and graduate work. He was a winner of the State University System of Florida's prestigious Teacher Incentive Program award in 1994, the program's inaugural year.
WILLIAM G. SHENKIR is William Stamps Farish Professor of Free Enterprise at the University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce. He was dean of the McIntire School from 1977 to 1992, and was formerly Technical Advisor and Project Director for the Financial Accounting Standards Board. Shenkir's research and consulting interests include management accounting, open book management, and risk management. He has served as Faculty Fellow for Price Waterhouse and Exxon; as auditor for the United States Air Force Auditor General's office; and on the board of directors for Dominion Bankshares Corporation, First Union National Bank of Virginia, and ComSonics. His publications include Open-Book Management: Creating An Ownership Culture (with Thomas L. Barton and Thomas N. Tyson).
PAUL L. WALKER is Associate Professor of Accounting at the University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce. His research and consulting interests include audit markets, audit failures, and auditor independence, as well as audit regulation, risk, and fees. He has served in the Audit Division at Ernst & Young, in the Tax Division at KPMG Peat Marwick, and in the Securities Clearance & Operations, Internal Audit, Data Processing organization at InterFirst Bank, Dallas, TX.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction.
2. Lessons Learned From Case Studies.
3. Chase Manhattan Corporation.
4. E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company.
5. Microsoft Corporation.
6. United Grain Growers Limited.
7. Unocal Corporation.
8. Conclusion.
Appendix A. Enterprise-wide Risk Management Interview Protocol.
Appendix B. References.
Appendix C. Annotated Bibliography.
About the Authors.
Acknowledgments.
Index.