Dimitris N. Chorafas

Risk Accounting and Risk Management for Accountants (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Both Accountants and Auditors are confronted daily with challenges associated with the evaluation of credit risk, market risk, and other exposures. The book provides up-to-date information on the most significant developments in risk management policies and practices.

Accountants whose work under International Financial Reporting Standards increasingly involves risk control in their job will find this book of practical value with the inclusion of material on "how to" successfully design, implementation and use risk control measures.

Designed specifically for accountants the book starts with the fundamental factors underpinning risk: volatility and uncertainty, and then shows how and why accounting, auditing, and risk control correlate. The themes covered in the book include: credit risk, market risk, liquidity risk, investment risk, and event risk.

* This practical handbook, complete with case studies is specifically aimed at accountants.
* comprehensive information on how to develop, implement and use a risk management system
* Covers credit risk, market risk, liquidity risk, investment risk, event risk.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780080550466
• Artikelnr.: 38121144

Autorenporträt

Since 1961, Dr Dimitris N. Chorafas has advised financial institutions and industrial corporations in strategic planning, risk management, computers and communications systems, and internal controls. A graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles, the University of Paris, and the Technical University of Athens, Dr Chorafas has been a Fulbright scholar. Financial institutions which have sought his assistance include the Union Bank of Switzerland, Bank Vontobel, CEDEL, the Bank of Scotland, Credit Agricole, Österreichische Länderbank (Bank Austria), First Austrian Bank, Commerzbank, Dresdner Bank, Mid-Med Bank, Demir Bank, Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura, Istituto Bancario Italiano, Credito Commerciale and Banca Provinciale Lombarda. Among multinational corporations Dr Chorafas has worked as consultant to top management, are: General Electric-Bull, Univac, Honeywell, Digital Equipment Corp, Olivetti, Nestlé, Omega, Italcementi, Italmobiliare, AEG-Telefunken, Olympia, Osram, Antar, Pechiney, the American Management Association and host of other client firms in Europe and the United States. Dr Chorafas has served on the faculty of the Catholic University of America and as visiting professor at Washington State University, George Washington University, University of Vermont, University of Florida, and Georgia Institute of Technology. Also, the University of Alberta, Ecole d'Etudes Industrielles de l'Université de Genève, and Technical University of Karlsruhe. More than 6,000 banking, industrial and government executives have participated in his seminars in the United States, England, Germany, other European countries, Asia and Latin America.

Inhaltsangabe

RISK, VOLATILITY, AND UNCERTAINTY; RISK MANAGEMENT AND THE ACCOUNTANT; DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES WITH RISK MANAGEMENT; ACCOUNTING FOR TOTAL EXPOSURE. A CASE STUDY; CREDIT RISK; CASE STUDIES ON LOANS THAT CANNOT BE REPAID; MARKET RISK; INVESTMENT RISK; RISK, REWARD, AND RUIN; BASEL II AND RISK MANAGEMENT; RISK-BASED PRICING; A DEVIL'S ADVOCATE IN RISK MANAGEMENT; BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND THE RISK MANAGER