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Richard A. Riley, CPCU, ARM, AIM
Vice Chairman and CEO, Retired
WNC First Insurance Services
Member, AICPCU/IIA Boards of Trustees

NEW! Risk Assessment Suite

Risk management helps people and organizations to realize opportunities and avert threats associated with risk. After completing the collection of courses in Risk Assessment, you´ll have a thorough understanding of risk management and how organizations can establish risk management programs to prevent or mitigate accidental losses.

Available Risk Assessment courses are listed below. Click each course name for information and a list of topics covered. For your convenience, you can take one, a few, or all of the below courses. The choice is yours!

Understanding Risk Management and Establishing a Risk Management Program
Topics covered in this course include risk management, costs and benefits of risk management, pre-loss and post-loss goals, and more.

Understanding the Risk Management Process
Topics covered in this course include the risk management process, four types of loss exposures, methods of identifying loss exposures, and more.

Assessing Property Loss Exposures
Topics covered in this course include property exposed to a loss, major causes of loss affecting property, legal interests in property, and more.

Liability Loss Exposures
Topics covered in this course include liability loss exposures arising out of torts, contracts, statutes, and more.

Assessing Management Liability Exposures
Topics covered in this course include liability loss exposures of a corporation arising out of directors� and officers� responsibilities, and more.

Understanding Corporate Governance
Topics covered in this course include three categories of agency costs, four mechanisms to align manager and shareholder interests, and more.

Assessing Personnel Exposures
Topics covered in this course include personnel exposed to loss, causes of loss affecting personnel exposures, workplace hazards, and more.

Assessing Net Income Loss Exposures
Topics covered in this course include three types of loss exposures that can lead to a net income loss, how property losses can lead to net income losses, and more.

Understanding and Applying Forecasting
Topics covered in this course include the importance of loss forecasts, theoretical and empirical probability distributions, and more.

Understanding and Applying Cash Flow Analysis
Topics covered in this course include net cash flows, time value of money, calculating present values of future payments, and more.

We Recommend These Courses for: Agents/brokers, agency principals, line of business managers and executives, risk managers, and operational risk staff for banks and insurers

Bottom-Line Benefits

  • Strengthen efficiency in the risk management function by developing an improved understanding of specific aspects of risk assessment
  • Improve the effectiveness of contributions by learning practical methods to assess various types of risks across the organization
  • Increase the ability to mitigate or avoid certain loss exposures by developing a thorough understanding of the risk assessment process

Level: Intermediate


Cost: $20 per Professional Development Hour (PDH). Information on Professional Development Hours (PDH) provided can be found here.

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