Business risk
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18. Do you have a formal documented mechanism for dealing with the following potential business risk areas?
| Yes | No | Don't know |
| Major IT failure | 61 | 37 | 0 |
| Major regulatory change in your industry | 45 | 52 | 0 |
| Loss of key personnel | 48 | 50 | 0 |
| Loss of key customers | 47 | 51 | 0 |
| Loss/destruction of property | 63 | 35 | 0 |
| Loss of key suppliers | 43 | 53 | 0 |
| Reputation/media crisis | 35 | 62 | 0 |
| Succession planning | 50 | 46 | 0 |
| Disaster recovery | 57 | 40 | 0 |
| Security of electronic information | 74 | 24 | 0 |
| Privacy of information | 78 | 21 | 0 |
| HR Policy | 75 | 23 | 0 |
| Business strategy/plan | 78 | 20 | 0 |
19. And is there a single senior manager within your organisation with responsibility for overseeing risk management overall, for example a risk manager?
20. In the past few years there have been concerns and media attention given to corporate and accounting failures, which resulted in new rules related to business accounting practices. How seriously do you think the new rules that were introduced are impacting on your business now?
42
No impact
41
Slight impact
14
Serious impact
0
Don't know
21. Have you or do you plan to perform the following actions relating to the protection of your shareholders, employees and other third parties?
Please tell me whether this action is already in place, something you plan to put in place, or whether you have no plans for this action?
| In place | Plan to put in place | No plans |
| Tighten up on internal controls | 66 | 16 | 17 |
| Appoint non-executive or independent directors | 34 | 10 | 55 |
| Introduce formal director remuneration policies | 36 | 12 | 49 |
| Form an audit committee | 41 | 11 | 47 |
