Here’s one of those articles that would get my goat if I owned a goat. It’s the typical rah-rah article about how wonderful ERM is and everyone should be doing it. (I am always a proponent of those.) But the fact that it was published at a site called WebCPA should have tipped me off [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Enron’
Internal auditors get my goat
Posted in My Opinions, tagged audit, COSO ERM, Enron, goat, Sarbanes-Oxley on November 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Report on the Current State of Enterprise Risk Oversight
Posted in ERM Basics, Frameworks, Thought Leadership, tagged Enron, PwC ERM, Sarbanes-Oxley, SOX, www.erm.ncsu.edu on September 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was just reading the March 2009 Report on the Current State of Enterprise Risk Oversight conducted by by the Faculty in the ERM Initiative at North Carolina State University. The complete report can be found here: http://mgt.ncsu.edu/erm/documents/AICPAResearchStudy32309.pdf It’s filled with lots of stats and can be summed up by this line from the report: [...]
Predictable Surprises
Posted in Books, Risk management, tagged 9/11, Bazerman, Enron, ERM, predictable surprises, Watkins on August 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of my favourite books about risk management is Predictable Surprises – The Disasters You Should Have Seen Coming by Max. H. Bazerman and Michael D. Watkins. This is not an explicit risk management book but is about identifying, assessing and managing your risks and a must read for risk managers. The authors describe the [...]
