The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
Risk Academy, a Nexortium programmeRisk Science and MethodsDepartment of Risk Management
Internal control, independent assurance, control testing and the culture behind risk behaviour
Assurance is evidence that others can check, not a declaration.
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The discipline teaches internal control frameworks, the Three Lines Model in practice, internal audit and independent assurance, control design and testing over a period, risk culture and conduct, incentives and accountability, reputational risk and assurance reporting to boards, with the twin's provenance records per layer as the model of an evidence trail. A graduate can design a control, test that it operates, and write an assurance opinion that states its evidence and its limits.
This area covers how organisations gain confidence that risks are managed as intended: internal control frameworks, internal audit and independent assurance, control testing, reputational risk and the culture and incentives that shape risk behaviour. It is taught in the department of Risk Management, Faculty of Risk Science and Methods, through 1 course with it as primary discipline and 1 more that also teach it.
8 subtopics, taught across its courses and labs.
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From the Academy's risk taxonomy: the discipline's own entries and those of its primary courses, with how many courses teach each.
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Courses with this primary discipline0 open, 1 in preparation
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Also taught here1 courses that count in another discipline
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