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principles of risk management
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Principles Of Risk Management
A loan is being repaid with 30 equal annual installments. The principal portion of the 11^^ payment is 247.13, and the interest portion is 352.87. Find /.AppendixLO1
A loan is repaid by 20 equal annual payments at 1 1% effective. If the amount of principal in the 4^^ payment is 150, find the amount of interest in the 12'^ payment.AppendixLO1
A loan is being repaid with 30 equal annual installments at/ = .17. In what installment are the principal and interest portions most nearly equal to each other?AppendixLO1
A loan of 1000 is being repaid with annual installments for 20 years at 5% effective, with the first installment due one year after the loan is taken out. Show that the amount of interest in the 1
A 90,000 mortgage is repaid by payments at the end of each month ii 2for the next 25 years. The rate of interest is 11^% convertible semiannually.(a) Divide the first payment into principal and
Garfield is repaying a debt with 20 annual payments of 1000 each.At the end of the fourth year, he makes an extra payment of 2000.He then shortens his remaining payment period by two years, and makes
A loan is repaid by level payments at the end of each month. The principal outstanding on May 1, 1996, was Q\ on May 1, 1997, was R; on May 1, 1998, was S; on May 1, 1999, was T. Determine whether or
A loan of 1000 is being repaid by annual installments of 200, the first due in one year, and a smaller final payment made one year after the last regular payment. If i= .16, find the outstanding
A loan is being repaid by monthly payments of 200, the first due one month after the loan is taken out, along with a smaller final payment. If / = .11 and the loan balance at the end of 1 8 months is
A loan is being repaid by 20 annual payments. The first 5 installments are 300 each, the next 8 are 400 each, and the last 7 are 600 each. Assume / = .14.(a) Find the loan balance immediately after
A loan of 50,000 is being repaid with semiannual payments for 10 years at 13% convertible semiannually. The first payment is due six months after the loan is taken out.(a) Find the outstanding loan
What are the Benefits of Good Management
Explain Official Standardization
Describe some Requirements for Better Management
Why Security and Risk Management Matters ?
What is the difference between security, safety, and defense?
Give examples of levels of security within a sovereign state.
Explain the difference between international security and national security.
How could a critic think of international security and national security as misleading?
What is the difference between national security and homeland security?
How have some governments departmentalized national security differently or similarly to how others have departmentalized homeland security?
Why is security interdisciplinary?
Why could the crime rate be a misleading measure of security?
What is the difference between security and capacity?
When would we not want to convert capacity into security?
Why would an authority be mistaken to assess its security by its capacity?
Why might one minority group within a state have much less capacity than another minority group?
Refer to how the domains of national security, homeland security, international security, and human security were described earlier in this chapter. In any of these domains, identify examples of
Identify what is good or bad in the different definitions of risk (collected earlier in this chapter).
Calculate the expected returns in each of the following scenarios:a. We forecast a 50% probability that we would inherit $1 million.b. The probability of a shuttle failure with the loss of all six
What are the expected returns and range of returns in each of the scenarios below?a. A military coalition has offered to arm an external group if the group would ally with the coalition. Survey
Consider your answers to question 3. In each scenario, how could you describe one option or alternative as risk efficient?
Describe the risks in the scenarios in questions 2 and 3.
Categorize the risks in the scenarios in questions 2 and 3.
What is the difference between the normal formula of expected return and the PERT expected return?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of asking experts to assess risk’s level or rank?
What is the difference between hazard and threat?
How could a hazard become a threat?
How could you prevent a hazard from becoming a threat?
How could the same thing be a hazard to us but a threat to others?
What would be different between a hazard assessment and a threat assessment?
Describe two ways in which you could practically assess hazards.
What mistakes should you expect in most uses of the term threat?
What is the difference between a negative hazard, positive hazard, threat, opportunity, and contributor?
Decide whether each of the following is best described as a negative hazard, positive hazard, threat, or contributor: neutral, enemy, ally, critic, attacker, supporter, acquaintance, skeptic,
How could a journalist be a current hazard, threat, or contributor to your operational reputation?
What are the four main categories of hazards and threats?
Give an example of a threat that could be considered both natural and human-caused.
Why could one thing be more likely than another to be a target of a threat?
Critique the unofficial and official definitions of vulnerability shown earlier in this chapter.
Practically, what could we measure in order to assess the vulnerability of a target?
Explain your favored choice of the official definitions of exposure shown earlier in this chapter.
Practically, what aspects of a potential target could we measure in order to assess exposure?
Why should you maintain some record of your assessments and management of security or risk?
What information should you record about a risk?
What information should you record about your management of the risk?
When should one organization communicate information from its risk records to another organization?
Reread the case of British official communications of risks. What trade-offs or dilemmas can you identify in how the information is being communicated?
What is the utility of each of the following visual representations of risks?a. Risk scale/ladderb. Risk matrixc. Heat mapd. Risk radare. Risk map
7. Reconsider the mathematically irregular or overlapping risk rankingswithin the matrix shown in Table 11.4:a. What component of risk does this matrix bias?b. When are irregular rankings
8. Reconsider Figure 3.3.a. What is this figure communicating effectively?b. What about the risks is this figure not communicating?c. How could this figure communicate changes in risk over time?
Why should we review or monitor how our subordinates and partners manage risks?
What differentiates monitoring from auditing?
Reread Pedagogy Box 11.4 above about British official monitoring of government.a. The official activities are described sometimes as reviews, sometimes audits. Given the information available in the
Write five questions expecting answers of either yes or no, where an affirmative answer should prompt an audit of another organization.
Given an example of a type of project that should be prioritized for an audit.
Recall five questions that should be asked during an audit.
9. For what is a heat map most useful?
10. For what is a risk radar most useful?
11. When would we need a geographical map of the risks?
How can stress be managed during an operation?
What should a manager assess about a person’s health before allocation to a particular task or operation?
What control on the risks from smoke would increase the risks from feral animals?
What are the personal risks associated with feral animals?
Under what circumstances does someone become more exposed to smoke?
Why would you expect increased frequency of fire in an unstable area?
Why are accident, illness, and stress rates correlated?
When would you expect accident rates to rise?
What are the extra negative risks associated with the acquisition of close protection?
What minimum knowledge and skills should you expect when being trained for a hazardous environment?
What are your options for managing a criminal threat within your organization?
What are your options for managing a criminal hazard within your organization?
What differentiates a threatening person from a hazard?
What could motivate a criminal interest in a particular person?
What are the differences between criminal threats to the person and criminal threats to sites?
What do officials mean by countering the wider pirate network?
What are the dilemmas and trade-offs in preparing a ship for defense against piracy?
Why is naval enforcement of counter-piracy practically difficult?
Why are laws against piracy difficult to enforce?
Why are the known costs of piracy underestimated?
Why are the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean riskiest for piracy?
Why did maritime piracy increase in the 2000s?
Why are maritime pirates difficult to identify before they attack?
What is the difference between maritime terrorist attacks and flows?
What is the difference between the Container Security Initiative and the Smart Box Initiative?
Why are MANPADS of more concern than other antiaircraft weapons?
How is security provided against human threats already aboard a flight?
For critics of screening technology, what is the alternative?
Why are body imagers controversial?
How have terrorist passengers evaded controls on explosives?
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