All businesses operating on the market have to deal with risks that may compromise their survival, their ability to compete, their financial situation, their image on the market and the quality of their product and services.
Since no instrument can reduce business risks to zero, management has the task of defining the prudentially acceptable risk level and ensuring that it is kept to that level.
Our professionals assist your management in each stage of the process, in particular:

• to define the corporate goals as starting point for accurately defining risks;
• to define global corporate risks – strategic, financial or operative;
• to assess the probabilities of occurrence and extent of damage;
• to pinpoint the possible tools to manage the single risk.

More specifically, our firm can offer its services in the areas below, also outsourced to absolutely reliable, although legally independent external professionals:

Identifying risks connected to strategic goals
Our specialists work alongside top management to facilitate the assessment of risks present in every corporate organisation that, if not appropriately managed, can undermine the achievement of strategic goals.

Operating risk management
In this area, we work with our clients to manage the most relevant risks that may impact on the management of the corporate operating activities. Within this wide range of possible risks, we assist our clients in particular with:

Financial risks
Our specialists can help clients with solutions that enable them to globally manage and then keep control of the financial risk. So we analyse risks connected to fluctuations in exchange rates and interest rates, credit risk, risks connected to raw materials and financial markets, both individually and as a single topic to manage as a whole. We can also assist our clients to review or implement financial risk measurement methods, systems to measure corporate management results used to relate the risk to performance and to creating value.

Other operating risks
Our specialists work with corporate management on the risk management processes, assessing the reliability and integrity of the operating processes. Various services exist in this sector that may satisfy our clients’ demands:

• Controls & Assurance Services:
  aimed at assuring that ongoing changes to operating processes and technologies do not compromise the corporate internal control systems; in particular, we help our clients manage risks associated with the implementation of ERP systems;
• Technology Risk Services:
  we assist companies in the effective management of risks associated with the development, management and use of IT technology and communication, particularly concerning:
  • IT security risk management
  • management of the whole process of selection and implementation of hardware and software systems, networks and the Internet, to reduce risks connected to these processes
    

Conformity with laws and regulations
Our specialists help clients manage responsibilities relating to compliance with legislation, trade regulations and company policies. We can identify and assess the current level of risk, develop programmes to reduce these risks, monitor risks relative to non-compliance with legislation, regulations and company policies in order to assure a reduction in risks and maintenance of a high standard of quality in these areas.

Corporate Social Responsibility
Our professionals work in the field of assurance and assistance for companies, for associations and for other bodies interested in issues relating to CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) and Sustainable Development. In this area we can enhance the commitment and work performed by each client in the area of ethical and social themes.

Some of the services we offer:

• technical and methodological assistance in developing corporate reports or sustainability ;
• assessment of the corporate report to suit different levels of assurance;
• assistance in formulating codes of ethics and subsequent programmes for downstream;
• assessment of conformity of corporate conduct with these codes;
• assistance in developing and monitoring RSCM - Responsible Supply Chain Management policies;
• assistance in defining non-financial performance assessment models.