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1. ''Capital asset pricing model.''
A framework for establishing the prices that can be charged to customers for goods and services. This framework is subject to oversight and/or approval by a rate-regulator.


In the Capital asset pricing model, financial risk means the component of total risk resulting from a firm’s capital structure.  
For example, many governments regulate the supply and pricing of particular types of activity by private entities, including utilities such as gas, electricity and water.


The more net debt there is in the capital structure, the greater the financial risk.


 
==See also==
2.
* [[IFRS 14]]
 
The term 'financial risk' is also used more generally to mean the wider risk of uncertain financial outcomes. 
 
For example, the risks arising from not knowing the future home currency value of a forecast foreign currency receipt, or the uncertainty regarding the size of future interest payments on floating rate borrowings.
 
 
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'Financial risk' can also refer to the financial implications arising from all types of risk.
 
Especially adverse financial implications.
 
 
== See also ==
* [[Asset beta]]
* [[Business risk]]
* [[Capital asset pricing model]]
* [[Equity risk]]
* [[Financial asset]]
* [[Financial liability]]
* [[Financial market price risk]]
* [[Financial risk management]]
* [[Guide to risk management]]
* [[Operational risk]]
* [[Return]]
* [[Risk]]
* [[Risk taxonomy]]
* [[Ungeared beta]]
 
 
===Other links===
[http://www.treasurers.org/node/8443  Masterclass: Measuring financial risk, ''Will Spinney'', The Treasurer]
 
[[Category:Manage_risks]]

Revision as of 14:08, 17 January 2015

A framework for establishing the prices that can be charged to customers for goods and services. This framework is subject to oversight and/or approval by a rate-regulator.

For example, many governments regulate the supply and pricing of particular types of activity by private entities, including utilities such as gas, electricity and water.


See also