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Safeguarding your future

Massive government interventions in the financial sector may have prevented even more calamity, but great uncertainty still lies ahead.

So it’s imperative that you form a strategic view of all the risks you now face. This means defining what your key risks are, weighting their probability and impact on business drivers – and developing your thinking on actions to take.

Ernst & Young can support you in this. We can undertake risk assessments that go beyond financial and regulatory risk to consider the wider environment in which you operate. We can conduct scenario planning for your key risks to make sure your risk management processes are linked to the actual risks that your business faces. And we can help you put in place effective monitoring and control processes that give you earlier warnings, and enable you to respond quickly and effectively.

This rigorous and disciplined approach to risk management helps you safeguard the future of your business – and supports you in facing the challenges of the recession.

Future of risk: Protecting and enabling performance

This new survey of more than 500 global companies provides a snapshot of the current risk environment (pdf, 282kb)  at a time when mixed reports are filtering through about the medium- and long-term economic outlook. It examines companies’ attitudes towards risk management and how recent global events have affected management approaches to risk. This survey identifies leading practices, common areas for improvement and what companies need to do to define a path forward to a performance enhancing risk future state.

The top 10 strategic risks for business

What strategic challenges are likely to affect your company in 2009 and beyond? Ten of the most critical risks, including regulatory and compliance, financial shocks, and aging consumers and workforce, are analysed in The 2009 Ernst & Young business risk report: the top 10 risks for global business (pdf, 1.9mb).

Manage risk in the current climate

This issue of BoardMatters Quarterly, "Managing risk in the current climate" (pdf, 610kb), is dedicated to helping audit committees identify, prepare for and protect against the key risks their companies may face during these strenuous times.

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