CIPS L5M2 - Managing Supply Chain Risk

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2 is the correct answer. Risk appetite is the level of risk that an individual or organisation is comfortable taking (p.4). Having a large risk appetite does not mean that you want to take every risk (as that would be irresponsible), rather, a large risk appetite means you're more likely to gamble and take calculated risks, even though they might not pay off. A small risk appetite would describe options 3 and 4 - taking few risks, or none at all.

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This is contribution. An example of this is if you have two insurance policies and are going on a business trip that is cancelled last minute. You can claim on the insurance the value of the trip- but only once. So you can either use one policy and not the other, or you can claim half the value of the trip on both policies. This stops people taking out multiple policies and then claiming on them all to make a profit. Legal Principles of Insurance is a known exam topic - this is from p.100-101 of the study guide

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A forward contract would fix the exchange rate at a certain level, allowing for cost certainty. This mitigates the risk of the currency getting any weaker.

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1, 3 and 4 are the correct options. Binomial is based on discreate events not continuous and it assumes the events of each trial are independent of one another. This YouTube video explains it all perfectly using the chance that an ice-cream cone is broken. It's a nice memorable example to help you remember what binomial distribution is and how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EZbX2ftCUk - it 's a very memorable example and really helped me. You can also see more info in the cips textbook p.131

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The correct answers are as follows:

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The correct answers are as follows:

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The correct order is 2, 1, 3 - this is from p.108 of the study guide: 'The Components of a Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plan'.

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The correct answer is 3 'no Leo LLP could do nothing and increase its prices instead'. Firstly the CFO is wrong. There are other ways to mitigate this risk than hedging- hedging isn't the ONLY thing you can do. Therefore you automatically need to discount options that begin with yes. Then looking at the options that begin with no, insurance isn't going to help in this situtation. Therefore, by process of elimination you will be left with 'no Leo LLP could do nothing and increase its prices instead'.

This question is taken from p.95 - there is a section here describing alternatives to hedging. When dealing with currency fluctuations, an alternative to fixing a price is to build in a margin on your own prices. This margin acts as a buffer for if prices go up- your price can remain the same. Other alternatives to hedging suggested by CIPS include; negotiating long term contracts, buying out the supplier and ingredient substitution