Financial Reporting Through Risk Lenses

Mr. Volmut, who has travelled across most of Europe with EY and regularly works with clients in the United States, brought to MUP not only professional know-how but also concrete practical insights. He focused on how financial reporting is evolving under the pressure of regulatory requirements, technological change, and increasingly complex business models.

When reporting fails, entire markets shake – history proves it

The introduction highlighted several cases that significantly impacted capital markets: Enron, WorldCom, and Tyco. This was not a mere historical overview. Volmut explained what happened within these companies, how failures in financial reporting can lead to billion-dollar collapses, and why these events laid the foundation for strict regulatory frameworks such as the Sarbanes–Oxley Act.
“Trust, but verify,” he reminded the audience—one of the fundamental principles of modern financial oversight.

From receivables to cybersecurity: risks are everywhere

The lecture also included practical demonstrations of control mechanisms—such as monitoring the ageing of receivables or preventing errors in payment approval processes. Another part of the discussion showed that today’s significant risks arise not only within accounting processes but also within technological infrastructure, ranging from system errors to cyberattacks.

The modern risk manager: analyst, negotiator, and investigator

The lecture demonstrated that contemporary risk management is not solely about identifying issues, but about creating an environment that is resilient, transparent, and sustainable. The session enriched the curriculum of both programmes by offering an opportunity to look into real business situations and showing how theoretical principles are applied in the everyday functioning of large companies.