Risk, Reward, and Resilience: A Modern Approach to Risk Management

Overview

This course examines the Terraform Labs cryptocurrency collapse, a $40+ billion fraud, to highlight key fraud risks in emerging financial products. Participants will explore cryptocurrency fundamentals, stablecoins, and blockchain concepts while identifying red flags such as unrealistic returns, weak controls, and misleading use cases. The course also addresses investor psychology and regulatory violations, helping professionals apply critical thinking and skepticism when evaluating complex investment opportunities. Recorded January, 2025.

Highlights

• Economic Value Added (EVA)
• risk-adjusted decision-making
• Economic profit
• Investment decisions with value creation
• Address risk challenges

Prerequisites

Work experience in a corporate staff environment, or an introductory course in finance.

Objectives

• Indicate how Economic Value Added (EVA) integrates with cost of capital analyses and advanced valuation models for risk-adjusted decision-making
• Explain how EVA serves as a measure of true economic profit and improves resource allocation decisions
• Recognize how EVA can identify and mitigate risks by aligning investment decisions with value creation
• Identify how to address risk challenges, such as suboptimal outcomes and agency problems, through objective and measurable EVA-based metrics

Notice

This is a self-study/on demand course offered by a 3rd party vendor and will NOT be accessible in the My Upcoming CPE section of the ISCPA website. Course access information will be emailed directly to you by CalCPA. The course expires one year from the purchase date. Format = Online Self-Study.