Descripción

The risk associated with financial decisions has a great impact on the performance of the company; ignorance can lead to its disappearance from the market. Investment and financing decisions may be relevant in all aspects of the company such as human resources, technology, amongothers, becoming increasingly complex due to changing circumstances of market, such as: monetary system, trends in prices, among others. Risk analysis could be carried out qualitatively and quantitatively. This paper develops a quantitative method, based on a regression model.Following this, other risk indicators are calculated, among which are the operational, financial and country. Values of risk derived from regression are compared with those other kind of risks, and it is determined whichof them have more closeness. Here, it is used information of the large manufacturing business survey 2010, and from 5000 companies in Revista Dinero of the Colombian chemical industry, finding that this sector has a risk varying between 30 % and 40 % of the profitability, approximately.