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The Risks of Technology

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the risks of technology answer 1
Technology has given us constant, real-time access to vast amounts of data; it has powered the capital markets to extraordinary heights (and depths) and made ordinary products, such as phones, cameras, televisions and computers, do extraordinary things.

Correct answer: (a) powered

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Yet, warns Bruce Lynn of The Financial Executives Consulting Group, there is a darker, riskier side to technology: did it contribute to the dotcom debacle?

Correct answer: (a) debacle

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And what about its role in the ongoing meltdown of the mortgage-backed securities markets now (2007) affecting the US, Germany and France?

Correct answer: (c) meltdown

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Treasury professionals spend many hours making cash, debt or investing decisions by setting various control limits and using the latest tenets of portfolio management.

Correct answer: (d) tenets

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It is possible that treasury's ability to perform these tasks in the future is being jeopardised by the very tool being used to reach those decisions, namely technology.

Correct answer: (b) jeopardised

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Does the use of more technology 'black boxes' simply shift risk from one area (market or credit risk) to another (operations) because some systems do not play well with others or because IT resources to fix these issues become available only after a problem is discovered?

Correct answer: (a) black

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Are the tools we use (i.e. technology) really to blame or does the fault lie with the tool's operator because what is being produced does not address the issue at hand?

Correct answer: (a) at

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The various systems vendors would have you believe that more technology is better; every treasurer is promised that s/he will be able to call up large amounts of data from the company's servers or data warehouses, analyse it, and then distribute reports via email around the world before anyone's coffee becomes cold.

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What appears to be forgotten in the pursuit of technology is the issue of the 'weakest link': not all systems will be up to date all of the time, they speak different 'languages', and they may be missing data and/or contain errors.

Correct answer: (d) weakest

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the risks of technology answer 10
In this age of web-based, real-time information, the combination of new systems with old can create unacceptable levels of operating risk, especially for senior managers responsible for certifying that their company has well-established financial controls, that they have examined them and that they work.

Correct answer: (d) work

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