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University of Cape Town: Advanced Business Risk Management

Elevate your ability to manage volatility and uncertainty to support company performance.

Elevate your ability to manage volatility and uncertainty to support company performance.

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8 weeks
10–12 hours per week
Starts Mar 3, 2025
Enroll by Mar 9, 2025
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule

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8 weeks
10–12 hours per week
Starts Mar 3, 2025
Enroll by Mar 9, 2025
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule

About this Course

Owing to widespread economic, political, ecological, and technological change, businesses of today are facing a broad range of risks that, if not adequately addressed, could threaten their survival. As a result, more organizations are realizing the importance of having competent senior risk management professionals on their side.

The University of Cape Town (UCT) Advanced Business Risk Management online short course moves beyond foundational concepts to teach you how to not just identify and assess organizational risks, but develop strategies and controls to mitigate them. You’ll explore the management of reputational, financial, investment, and behavioral risks, and discover how to use insights to inform decision making.

As the course journey simulates the risk management process, you can expect a highly practical learning experience, with the chance to apply theory and best practices to real-world case studies.

Working professionals who want to build or further a career in business risk management will find this course useful. Established risk officers can update their skill sets and boost their knowledge of new developments to ensure optimal performance in their current roles. At the same time, those with business and management experience can acquire the tools and know-how necessary to shift into a risk-focused role. There are no formal prerequisites for this course, but financial literacy would be advantageous and it is recommended that students have either completed the UCT Business Risk Management online short course or are currently working in the risk management field.

Course curriculum

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Learn how to select appropriate controls to mitigate risk as you work through the weekly modules of this online short course.

Orientation module: Welcome to your Online Campus

Module 1: The business context

Module 2: Governance, ethics and reputational risk

Module 3: Internal controls

Module 4: Information systems risk

Module 5: Financial risk and foreign operations

Module 6: Investment risk

Module 7: Behavioral risk

Module 8: Risk awareness: Recording, monitoring and reviewing

About the certificate

Advance your business risk management skills to a higher level of proficiency and earn an official certificate of completion from the University of Cape Town.

Assessment is continuous and based on a series of practical assignments completed online. In order to be issued with a digital certificate, you’ll need to meet the requirements outlined in the course handbook. The handbook will be made available to you as soon as you begin the course.

Your certificate will be issued in your legal name and sent to you digitally upon successful completion of the program, as per the stipulated requirements. Please note, due to additional administrative requirements, at times UCT course certificate delivery may be delayed by several weeks/months.

Some facts about the subject

69%

The proportion of companies surveyed that have a formal risk management department in place.

AON (2019).

Top 10

Labour unrest and failure of governance are two of the top 10 risks facing businesses in South Africa.

The Institute of Risk Management South Africa (2019).

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