Strategic Value & Risk Management

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students are expected to be able to identify and respond to emerging local and global business risk and opportunities behind it; to demonstrate a working knowledge of the financial risk management profession in the financial markets, institutions as well as individual company; to display creative thinking skills to construct and propose best alternative solutions to practical financial risk management issues to increase company value; and to construct a strategic decision to choose the best solution for practical financial issues

Topics

This course introduces students to strategic value and risk management. Students will learn about the various facets of risk management including macro-environment, industry cycles, strategic, implementation linked, competitor driven, financial, operational, environmental, compliance, corporate governance and reputation risk. Through practical case studies they will be taught about how to manage these risks, lessons learnt from previous crisis and risk management tools such as hedging, cash flow management and portfolio diversification. Students will also learn about Economic Value Added and how strategic decisions by management would increase the value.