Closing borders down and/or other restrictions by government can have an impact on business.

1. WHY DO GEOPOLITICAL
EVENTS IMPACT BUSINESS
BY: PAUL YOUNG CPA, CGA
JUNE 5, 2017

2. AUTHOR / BIO
Septe
mber
9,
2014
• Paul Young, CPA, CGA
•SME – Financial Performance Management (TM1, Cognos Controller and
Cognos Disclosure Management, OpenPages, Algorithmics, Cognos Integrated
Server, Cognos Command Center and Datawatch)
•Industry Experience
•15+ years in Corporate Reporting, Budget & Forecasting, Costing,
Business Process Management, Internal Audit and Controls, Risk
Management, Financial Analysis, Costing
•11+ years in financial solutions (FOPM, FPM, Risk, Office of the Finance,
Risk Management)
•8+ years teaching Advance Finance, Advance Accounting, Public Finance
and Advance Management Information Systems
•Blogger in areas like Finance Analysis, Government policies, market
segment

3. AGENDA
• What are Geopolitical events?
• Supply Chain Management Integrated
• Government Role
• Business Role
• 2017 Key Risk Areas - Geopolitical

4. WHAT ARE GEOPOLITICAL EVENTS?
Geopolitics is a method of studying foreign policy to understand,
explain and predict international political behavior through
geographical variables. These include area studies, climate,
topography, demography, natural resources, and applied science of the
region being evaluated
Source - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geopolitics

5. SUPPLY CHAIN INTEGRATION
• Globalization of Supply Chain
• Business exposure to areas
like climate change or
Governmental changes or
infrastructure or labor rates or
shipping rates or investment
rules or taxation or
environment regulations

6. GOVERNMENTAL ROLE
• Governmental Structure
• Democracy
• Kingdom
• Socialism
• Government sets policies
• Taxation
• Regulations
• Investment in infrastructure
• Labor and Environmental Laws
• FIPA and Trade Agreements

7. BUSINESS ROLE
• Business needs to expand to new market
• Business needs to follow laws and regulation in the countries they do business

8. 2017 – KEY GEOPOLITICAL RISKS
Source - https://www.zurichna.com/en/knowledge/articles/2017/03/global-
risks-report-2017-geopolitical-risks-come-to-the-fore - March 31 2017

9. QATAR AND MIDDLE EAST
Source - https://seekingalpha.com/news/3271472-arab-nations-sever-ties-qatar?ifp=0
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/05/middleeast/saudi-bahrain-egypt-uae-qatar-
Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates have broken off relations with
Qatar, in the worst diplomatic crisis to hit Gulf Arab states in decades.
The three Gulf countries and Egypt have accused Qatar of supporting terrorism and
destabilizing the region. Qatar -- which shares its only land border with Saudi Arabia -- has
rejected the accusations calling them "unjustified" and "baseless".

10. RISK MANAGEMENT
• More and more companies include risk management as part of the reporting

11. RISK MANAGEMENT MARKET

12. ADDITIONAL SOURCES
• Reporting challenges facing business: https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/reporting-challenges-
for-office-of-finance-accounting-finance-tax-risk-management-internal-audit-november-2016
• BEPS Reporting - https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/beps-oecd-mandate-tax-reporting-close-
consolidate-and-reporting-solutions