Enterprise Risk Management

The book helps readers to answer a pressing question for businesses: how can they evaluate risks and opportunities to develop appropriate risk-adjusted strategies that allow them to generate maximum profit at acceptable risk levels?

This book focuses on a hands-on approach to risk management which includes a step-by-step guide on how to identify, analyze, quantify and aggregate various risks in organizations. It guides the reader through what-if simulation and scenario analyses as well as Monte Carlo simulations in Excel with applications to traditional non-financial businesses and platform companies like Spotify. This management-oriented perspective sets it apart from often compliance-related textbooks, which mostly focus on financial industries. Its approach is applicable to a wide range of industries and based on a strategic and value-based view of balancing risks and opportunities in businesses. The mathematical and technical details are presented in an easy-to-follow format and illustrated throughout with examples and simple calculations. Additional material for lecturers and students (exercises, cases, templates) is provided online.

Robert Rieg is Professor of management accounting and control at Aalen University, Germany. His research includes empirical studies on the practice of risk management and its link to management control. He has authored several textbooks and his research appeared in numerous peer-reviewed papers.

Ute Vanini is Professor of management accounting and control at Kiel University of Applied Science, Germany. Her research focuses on the application of management control and risk management concepts in corporate practice and the integration of sustainability aspects in management control and accounting education.

Werner Gleißner is CEO of FutureValue Group AG and Professor at the Technical University of Dresden, Germany. His research and activities focus on risk management, valuation & rating, corporate strategy and the development of methods for simulation-based risk aggregation such as for the preparation of management decisions ("strategy evaluation") and value investing.