Risk 1: Global warming -- our technology is killing our environment. 2: Possible network-wide failure because of a computer virus or malfuntion (like Y2K‚ except real). 3: Nuclear warfare and fallout -- our technology would‚ in theory‚ allow us to destroy the world as we know it. This is not a good thing‚ even if it helps us win wars. Also in that category: weapons of mass destruction‚ bioweapons‚ and so on (the fact that there is a "so on" is scary in and of itself). 4: Religious conflicts
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Weighing the Risks of Medications There are remedies for any symptoms nowadays. Patients can be prescribed a variety of medications to cure or treat any given illness. Although many great results stem from ground-breaking innovations in the pharmaceutical industry; those innovations often come with harmful side-effects. Many people have stated that some prescription medications are unsafe and need more stringent regulations. They claim that some drugs are highly addictive and potentially deadly.
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Thoroughly identified the risks inherent in the use of wireless and mobile technologies. Now days‚ wireless communication and devices are very flexible‚ convenient‚ and easy to use everywhere. With the introduction of wireless local area network (WLAN) many users find it very flexible to move laptops from one place to another within the office while maintaining connectivity with the network‚ sharing data and applications with network system and other users with compatible devices without been tied
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short positions in equity stakes in 3 Japanese companies. The third one is that GM has a financing exposure‚ which includes a completion of $500 million Yen-dominated bonds issuing. The three kinds of exposures above make GM face a foreign currency risk and can influence the GM’s cash flow in the future. 2. How important is GM’s competitive exposure to the Yen? GM’s competitive exposure to the Yen is very significant because of the reasons below: As we have read from the case‚ we know that
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I will explain why certain accounts have to be audited 100 percent and why materiality is allocated only to those accounts that are sampled. I will also explain if there is any component of audit risk within the control of the auditor. Lastly‚ I will explain how the three risks that make up audit risk inter-relate. Simulation For Sweet Truths‚ certain accounts such as cash‚ lines of credit‚ and intangibles have to be audited 100 percent because they are generally composed of few transactions
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For example‚ Odell and Commander identify some risk factors for homelessness among people with psychotic disorders as they recruited them from mental services. According to their research about psychotic disorders‚ the data from interviews and medical records showed High rates of severe mental illness amongst single homeless populations have been consistently reported in the literature. The reasons for this disturbing finding arise‚ at least in part‚ from structural features in our society are
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pose a large business risk to IBM because they can leverage their large market share‚ capabilities‚ and achieve economies of scales. Acceptable audit risk is affected by the relative size of IBM in the industry it operates. IBM is a large global corporation and thus there are a very large number of financial statement users. The large number of financial statement users causes the auditors to set acceptable audit risk at a lower number and thus lowering planned detection risk and increasing the amount
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CORPORATE RISK MANAGEMENT ASSIGNMENT OPERATIONAL RISK MANAGEMENT (ORM) IN BANKS Risk is inherent in any walk of life in general and in financial sectors in particular. Till recently‚ due to regulated environment‚ banks could not afford to take risks. But of late‚ banks are exposed to same competition and hence are compelled to encounter various types of financial and non-financial risks. Risks and uncertainties form an integral part of banking which by nature entails taking risks. There are
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Computer Risks and Exposures Computers of all kinds within an organisation are constantly faced with a variety of risks and exposures. It is helpful if we first define these terms: • Computer risk Probability that an undesirable event could turn into a loss • Computer exposure Results from a threat from an undesirable event that has the potential to become a risk • Vulnerability A flaw or weakness in the system that can turn into a threat or a risk The total impact of computer risks range from
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Perhaps with the exception of society itself‚ the organizational entity has become one of the most contemporaneously significant institutions. This‚ moreover‚ is something that tends to be emphasized quite strongly when considering it in light of the exceptional degree to which we tend to depend upon products and commodities that are the manufactured output of a particular firm or organization. Indeed‚ from the clothes we wear to the foods that we consume‚ virtually all of these are produced by a
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