Thursday, 5 January 2012

Various Types of Common Business Exposure

An exposure consists of the potential financial effect on an event multiplied by its probability of occurence. An exposure is a risk times its financial consequences.

*  Excessive Costs
      -  Reduce profits.
      -  Every expenditure made by an organization
          is potentially excessive.

*  Deficient Revenues
      -  Reduce profits.
      -  Bad debts expense on credit sales may be
          excessive.

*  Loss of Assets
      -  Assets may be lost due to theft, acts of
          violence or natural disaster.
      -  An organization has custody a large
          quantity of assets, all of which are subject
          to loss. Assets may be lost unintentionally.

*  Inaccurate Accounting
      -  Accounting policies and procedures may be
         error-prone, inappropriate or significantly
         different from those that are considered to
         be generally acceptable.

*  Business Interruption
      -  May consist of a temporary suspension of
         operations or ultimately the termination of
         operations and end of the organization.

*  Statutory Sanctions
      -  Include any penalties that may arise from
          judicial or regulatory authorities who have
          jurisdiction over an organization and its
          operations.

*  Competitive Disadvantage
      -  The inability of an organization to remain
          viable in the marketplace.
      -  might result from any combination of the
          previous exposures and also might result
          from ineffective management decisions.

*  Fraud and Embezzlement
      -  Fraud is the intentional perversion of truth
          in order to induce another to part with
          something of value or to surrender a legal
          right.
      -  Embezzlement occurs when assets are
         fraudulently appropriated to one's own use.

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