what are some of the risk factors that any firm can control?
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['Economic Risk. Economic risk includes changes in market conditions. ... ', 'Natural Risk. Natural risk factors include natural disasters that affect normal business operations. ... ', 'Political Risk.']
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['Lack of "economies of scale" (these are lower unit costs that arise from operating at high production volumes)', 'Risk of over dependence on a single product or market.', 'Likely to attract competition if successful.', 'Vulnerable to market changes – all "eggs in one basket"']
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The most common way insurance companies manage risk is to exclude specific types of coverage from a policy. Exclusions are made for risks that an insurance company does not want to cover. These can include heath conditions or actions of an insured, such as negligence.
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About half of all Americans (47%) have at least 1 of 3 key risk factors for heart disease: high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and smoking. Some risk factors for heart disease cannot be controlled, such as your age or family history. But you can take steps to lower your risk by changing the factors you can control.
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['Planning and Control: ... ', 'Managerial Decision- Making: ... ', 'Product Pricing Decisions: ... ', 'Cost Control: ... ', 'Inventory Changes do not Affect Profit: ... ', 'Avoiding the Impact of Fixed Costs: ... ', 'Performance Evaluation of Managers: ... ', 'Segmental Reporting:']
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A company is considered a high-risk business based on two conditions: it operates within a high-risk industry and risk of financial failure exits. ... However, both circumstances might affect your company's ability to acquire financing, insurance and merchant accounts.
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['Limited Liability: ... ', 'Perpetual Existence: ... ', 'Professional Management: ... ', 'Expansion Potential: ... ', 'Transferability of Shares: ... ', 'Diffusion of Risk: ... ', 'Lack of Secrecy: ... ', 'Restrictions:']
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These include: economic growth; cyclical and structural factors; demographics; education and training; innovation; labor unions; and industry consolidation In addition to macroeconomic and individual firm-related factors, there are individual-related factors that influence the risk of unemployment.
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['Facility physical vulnerability.', 'Information systems vunerability.', 'Physical Security for IT.', 'Insider threat.', 'Workplace violence threat.', 'Proprietary information risk.', 'Board level risk concerns.', 'Critical process vulnerabilities.']
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There are five different techniques you can use to manage risk: Avoiding Risk, Retaining Risk, Spreading Risk, Preventing and Reducing Loss, and Transferring Risk.
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['Economic Risk. The economy is constantly changing as the markets fluctuate. ... ', 'Compliance Risk. Business owners face an abundance of laws and regulations to comply with. ... ', 'Security and Fraud Risk. ... ', 'Financial Risk. ... ', 'Reputation Risk. ... ', 'Operational Risk. ... ', 'Competition (or Comfort) Risk.']
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['Risk Management issues which are often overlooked.', 'Lack of accountability.', 'Not taking risk assessment seriously.', 'Lack of transparency.', 'Overlooking risks which are known.', 'Failure with managing risks on real time basis.', 'Not prioritizing vulnerabilities.', 'Stressing too much on High Impact, Low Probability Risks.']
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['General Market Risk. ... ', 'Idiosyncratic Risk. ... ', 'Credit Risk. ... ', 'Replacement cost risk. ... ', 'Structural Risk. ... ', 'Leverage Risk.']
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Controllable risks are those which you can do something about. These would include currency exchange risks, addressing skills issues, poor cashflow (i.e.lack thereof), lawsuits, etc. Uncontrollable risks might include natural disasters (floods, storms, etc).
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['Team experience and depth risk. ... ', 'Market and opportunity risk. ... ', 'Competitive risk. ... ', 'Financial risk. ... ', 'Market entry strategy risk. ... ', 'Political and economic risk. ... ', 'Technology risk. ... ', 'Businesses with high attrition rate risk.']
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['Single Seller. One Firm controls the market.', 'No substitutes. unique good with no substitutes.', 'Price Market. firm can manipulate the price by changing the quantity it produces.', 'High Barriers to Entry. new firms cannot enter, no immediate competitors, firm makes long term profit.', 'Some "Nonprice" Competition.']
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There are many risk factors for CAD and some can be controlled but not others. The risk factors that can be controlled (modifiable) are: High BP; high blood cholesterol levels; smoking; diabetes; overweight or obesity; lack of physical activity; unhealthy diet and stress.