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Management, Mc-Graw Hill (International Edition), Third Edition
Management, Mc-Graw Hill (International Edition), Third Edition
Ch.17:
Ch.18:
Ch.19:
Ch.20:
Ch.21:
Cross-Border Acquisitions
International Capital Structure and
the Cost of Capital
International Capital Budgeting
Multinational Cash Management
Exports and Imports
International Tax Environment
Corporate Governance around the World
From book:
Eun, Cheoul S., Resnick, Bruce G.,
International Financial Manage-ment,
McGraw-Hill (International Edition), Third
Edition, 2004 .. E&R (Ch.: 12, 13, 14)
From Book:
Eiteman, David K., Stonehill, Arthur I.,
Moffett, Michael H., Multinational Business Finance, Addison Wesley (Int. Ed.), !
0th Ed., 2004 ... E&S&M (Ch.: 8, 9, 10)
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As business becomes encreasingly Foreign exchange exposure or
global, more and more firms find
currency exposure otential that a
it necessary to pay careful attenfirms profitability, cash flow, and
tion to foreign exchange exposure
market value will change because
and to design and implement appof a change in exchange rates.
ropriate hedging strategies.
An important task of the financial
See box on page 286:
manager is to measure foreign exchange exposure and to manage it
U.S. Firms Feel the Pain of
so as to maximize the profiability,
Pesos Plunge.
net cash flow, and market value of
See page 296:
the firm.
Exchange Risk Management at
Thereare 4 types of foreign
Merck.
exchange exposure:
Changes in exchange rates can
Operating exposure, also called
affect not only firms that are
economic exposure, competitive
directly engaged in international
exposure, strategic exposure
trade but also purely domestic
It measures the change in the
firms.
present value of the firm
Changes in exchange rates may
resulting from any change in
affect not only the operating cash
future operating cash flows of
flows of a firm by altering its
the firm caused by unexpected
competitive position but also
change in exchange rates.
dollar (home currency) values of
The change in value depend on
the firms assets and liabilities.
the effect of the exchange rate
It is conventional to classify
change on future sales volume,
foreign currency exposures into
prices, and costs.
three types:
Transaction exposure
Economic exposure
It measures changes in the value
That is the extent to which the
of outstanding financial obligavalue of the firm will be
tions incurred prior to a change
affected by unexpected changes
in exchange rates but not due to
in exchange rates.
be settled until a future point in
Transaction exposure
time.
That exposure arises from
Thus, it deals with changes in
contractual obligations denomi2
1. Pengertian
Translation exposure or also called accounting exposure refers to the
effect that an unanticipated change in exchange rates will have on the
consolidated financial reports of a MNCs (Multinational Corporations).
When exchange rates change, the value of a foreign subsidiarys assets
and liabilities denominated in a foreign currency change when they are
viewed from the perspective of the parent firm.
2. Four methods of foreign currency translation (p.330-333)
1). The current/noncurrent method
2). The monetary/nonmonetary method
3). The temporal method
4). The current rate method
Also see:
1). Exhibit 14.4 (p.336-337)
2). Consolidation of Accounts according t FASB52: The Centralia
Corporation (p.337-341)
3. Translation exposure vs. Transaction exposure (p.341-342)
4. Hedging translation exposure (p.342-344)
1). Balance sheet hedge
2). Derivatives hedge
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