Risk Managment of Apple Inc.

PLEKHANOV RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF ECONOMICS

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL

REPORT IN RISK MANAGEMENT

Integrated Risk Management System

of Apple Inc

Student: Zaeva N.

Group: 5402

Supervisor: Malyshev Y.K.

Moscow

2010

Table of Contents

Overview of the company 3

Internal environment 4

Company Organization 4

Business Strategy 4

Risks Factors and Methods of Management 5

Inventory and other asset risk 5

Supply Risk 5

Hazards 6

IT Risk 7

Credit risk 7

Interest Rate and Foreign Currency Risk Management 8

Interest Rate Risk 8

Foreign Currency Risk 9

Conclusion 10

Overview of the company

Apple Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets personal computers, mobile communication devices, and portable digital music and video players and sells a variety of related software and networking solutions. The Company sells its products worldwide through its online stores and its retail stores. Apple Inc is focused on providing innovative products and solutions to consumer, SMB, education, enterprise, government and creative customers.

The Company’s main competitive advantage is its unique ability to design and develop its own operating system, hardware, application software, and services to provide its customers with superior ease-of-use, smoothly integrated, and innovative designed products.

The Company participates in several highly competitive markets, including personal computers with its Mac line of personal computers, mobile communications with iPhone, and consumer electronics with its iPod product families. While the Company is widely recognized as a leading innovator in the personal computer, mobile communications and consumer electronics markets these markets are highly competitive and subject to aggressive pricing.

As of September 26, 2009, the end of the annual period covered by annual report, the Company was subject to the various legal proceedings. In the opinion of management, the Company does not have a potential...