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By Norman D. Marks, CPA, CRMA | 3 Minutes Read April 13, 2020

Time to wake up to risk reality

For 11 years, the ERM Initiative at North Carolina University has surveyed executives (this year they were again all financial executives) about what they call “the current state of risk oversight processes in organizations of all types and sizes to obtain an understanding of the relative maturity of underlying activities executives and boards use to monitor the rapidly changing risk landscape”.

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By Norman D. Marks, CPA, CRMA | 4 Minutes Read April 25, 2018

Is the goal of risk governance taking boards in the wrong direction?

The board is discharging its responsibilities to ensure stakeholders get the performance they should: value creation as well as (and not just) value protection. The board should make sure the management team is effective in running the organization, and that is not done by focusing on a list of harms. Effective governance of an organization is limited if the board focuses on risks.

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By Norman D. Marks, CPA, CRMA | 3 Minutes Read September 13, 2017

PwC confuses boards on risk oversight

The report from PwC has a useful discussion about whether the organization’s disclosures about risk are complete and sufficient to satisfy investors.

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