Risk Sources, Identification and Assessment
Risk taxonomy, cause-event-effect analysis, interdependence, likelihood, impact and prioritisation.
How to study CIMA Strategic Level
Secure E3, P3 and F3 knowledge before practising integrated long-term judgement and professional communication. Static study assets do not reproduce all objective-test interactions or the pre-seen, unseen information, locked written sections and human marking of the Strategic Case Study.
Core concepts
Concept 1
Identify risk causes, events and consequences.
Exam cue: Write risks as uncertain events with causes and effects.
Concept 2
Use qualitative and quantitative assessment appropriately.
Exam cue: Challenge the scales, time horizon and data behind a rating.
Concept 3
Recognise correlation, concentration and emerging risk.
Exam cue: Look for common drivers and cascading consequences.
Risk pitfalls and guardrails
Recording a known issue as though it were an uncertain risk.
Guardrail: Check the applicable blueprint, task verb, assumptions, units, evidence provenance, stakeholder effects, residual risk and whether the conclusion follows.
Multiplying arbitrary ordinal scores as precise quantities.
Guardrail: Check the applicable blueprint, task verb, assumptions, units, evidence provenance, stakeholder effects, residual risk and whether the conclusion follows.
Assessing risks independently when exposures are connected.
Guardrail: Check the applicable blueprint, task verb, assumptions, units, evidence provenance, stakeholder effects, residual risk and whether the conclusion follows.
Memory anchors
Risk event
An uncertain occurrence that could affect objectives.
Inherent risk
Exposure before considering the effect of controls and responses.
Residual risk
Exposure remaining after controls and responses are considered.
Checkpoint rule
Do the check-up only after you can summarize each concept in one sentence and identify one dangerous pitfall from memory.
Knowledge Check (after reading)
Short check-up to confirm understanding of this module.
Check-up Questions
Management can estimate failure frequencies for established machinery, but it cannot assign credible probabilities to the effect of a completely new technology on customer behaviour. Which distinction is most useful?
Procurement records supplier insolvency, operations records production stoppage and sales records contract penalties as separate risks, although one event could trigger all three. Which identification method would best reveal the linkage?
Answer all questions to submit.
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