Risk and Management Accounting

This CIMA research report builds on a pilot study undertaken by the authors. A framework for risk management was developed as a result of the research. This research report describes the results of a major survey-based research study entitled ‘Risk and Management Accounting: The development of best practice guidelines for enterprise-wide internal control procedures to identify and manage risk; the contribution of and the consequences for management accountants’.

• How (and why) organizations and their management accountants develop effective internal control systems to identify and manage risk
• How (and why) organizations and their management accountants construe risk in their professional and managerial roles

Management Accountants involved in risk management; Finance Directors involved in risk management; Finance professionals; Non-financial managers involved in risk management; Risk Managers; Business consultants and practitioners developing risk management techniques. CIMA Students

1. Introduction
   2. Background
   3. Survey design
   4. Research results
   5. Framework for risk management
   6. Conclusions and implications