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CPCU 500 Chapter 4 Exam Study Guide
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Risk Financing Goals - Answer✔1. Pay for losses
2. Manage the cost of risk
3. Manage cash flow variability
4. Maintain an appropriate level of liquidity
5. Comply with legal requirements
Pay for Losses - Answer✔funds must be available when losses occur for insure that normal
activities are not disrupted, promoting public relations, liability losses,
Transfer Costs - Answer✔costs paid in order to transfer responsibility for losses to another
party
Cost of Risk - Answer✔1. Administrative Expenses
2. Risk Control Expenses
3. Risk Financing Expenses
4. Managing Expenses
Administrative Expenses - Answer✔cost of internal administration and the cost of purchased
services, such as claim admin or risk management consulting
Risk Control Expenses - Answer✔incurred to reduce frequency, reduce the severity of losses
that do occur, or increase the predictability of future losses
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Risk Financing Expenses - Answer✔incurred to manage the risk financing measures used to
meet risk financing goals
Maximum Cash Flow Variability - Answer✔depends on the organization's tolerance for risk,
depends on factors such as the organization's size, its financial strength, and management's
own degree of risk tolerance, depends on the degree to which the organization's other
stakeholders, suppliers, or customers are willing to accept risk
Liquid Asset - Answer✔can easily be converted into cash
Appropriate Level of Liquidity - Answer✔determination of the appropriate level of liquidity for
retained losses and consideration of both internal and external sources of capital to meet those
needs
Comply with Legal Requirements - Answer✔depends on the individual requirements imposed
by the applicable statutory or contractual obligations.
Retention - Answer✔A risk financing technique by which losses are retained by generating
funds within the organization to pay for the losses
Transfer - Answer✔In the context of risk management, a risk financing technique by which the
financial responsibility for losses and variability in cash flows is shifted to another party
Planned Retention - Answer✔allows the risk management professional to choose the most
appropriate retention funding measure
Unplanned Retention - Answer✔occurs when either losses cannot be insured or otherwise
transferred or an individual or organization fails to correctly identify or assess a loss exposure
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CPCU 500 Chapter 4 Exam Study Guide
100% Verified.
Risk Financing Goals - Answer✔1. Pay for losses
2. Manage the cost of risk
3. Manage cash flow variability
4. Maintain an appropriate level of liquidity
5. Comply with legal requirements
Pay for Losses - Answer✔funds must be available when losses occur for insure that normal
activities are not disrupted, promoting public relations, liability losses,
Transfer Costs - Answer✔costs paid in order to transfer responsibility for losses to another
party
Cost of Risk - Answer✔1. Administrative Expenses
2. Risk Control Expenses
3. Risk Financing Expenses
4. Managing Expenses
Administrative Expenses - Answer✔cost of internal administration and the cost of purchased
services, such as claim admin or risk management consulting
Risk Control Expenses - Answer✔incurred to reduce frequency, reduce the severity of losses
that do occur, or increase the predictability of future losses
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Risk Financing Expenses - Answer✔incurred to manage the risk financing measures used to
meet risk financing goals
Maximum Cash Flow Variability - Answer✔depends on the organization's tolerance for risk,
depends on factors such as the organization's size, its financial strength, and management's
own degree of risk tolerance, depends on the degree to which the organization's other
stakeholders, suppliers, or customers are willing to accept risk
Liquid Asset - Answer✔can easily be converted into cash
Appropriate Level of Liquidity - Answer✔determination of the appropriate level of liquidity for
retained losses and consideration of both internal and external sources of capital to meet those
needs
Comply with Legal Requirements - Answer✔depends on the individual requirements imposed
by the applicable statutory or contractual obligations.
Retention - Answer✔A risk financing technique by which losses are retained by generating
funds within the organization to pay for the losses
Transfer - Answer✔In the context of risk management, a risk financing technique by which the
financial responsibility for losses and variability in cash flows is shifted to another party
Planned Retention - Answer✔allows the risk management professional to choose the most
appropriate retention funding measure
Unplanned Retention - Answer✔occurs when either losses cannot be insured or otherwise
transferred or an individual or organization fails to correctly identify or assess a loss exposure
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