International Flow of Funds - Blades PLC Case Study Ben Holt‚ the finance director of Blades plc‚ has decided to counteract the decreasing demand for “Speedos” roller blades by exporting this product to Thailand. Furthermore‚ due to the low cost of rubber and plastic in Southeast Asia‚ Holt has decided to import some of the components needed to manufacture “Speedos” from Thailand. Holt feels that importing rubber and plastic components from Thailand will provide Blades with a cost advantage (the components
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Case Study BLADE INC. CASE Submitted to Riyashad Ahmed(RyA) FIN-444 Sec-3 Submitted by Antu Biswas 102 0044 030 BLADE INC. CASE 1. What are the advantages Blades could gain from importing from and/or exporting to a foreign country such as Thailand? Ans: The advantages Blades could gain from importing from and/or exporting to Thailand could be Decrease their cost of goods sold‚ and increase Blades’ net income since rubber and plastic are cheaper when imported from a foreign country
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BLADES‚ INC. CASE Assessment of Future Exchange Rate Movements As the chief financial officer of Blades‚ Inc.‚ Ben Holt is pleased that his current system of exporting “Speedos” to Thailand seems to be working well. Blades’ primary customer in Thailand‚ a retailer called Entertainment Products‚ has committed itself to purchasing a fixed number of Speedos annually for the next 3 years at a fixed price denominated in baht‚ Thailand’s currency. Furthermore‚ Blades is using a Thai supplier for some
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James D’Elia FN 316 International Financial Management Professor Dunbar Case #3 Blades Inc. Chapter 5 1) If Blades used call options to hedge its Yen in payables‚ they are presented with 2 options. They can hedge at a lower exercise price (.00756) with a higher premium (2%); of they can hedge at a higher exercise price (.00792) with a lower premium (1.5%). Traditionally‚ the premiums are normally 1.5%‚ however due to recent uncertainty they have risen. This presents a tradeoff between an exercise
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Overview Blades‚ Inc.‚ is a USA based company that has been in corporate in the United States for three years. Blade relatively is a small Company‚ with total assets of only $200 million. The company produces only a single type of roller blade. Ben Holt the CFO of the Blades Inc. Financial Information Total assets of was only $200 million and first year net income of $3.5 million. Return on asset is 7%. It stock price has fallen from high of $20 per share three years ago to $12
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= THB713239200 Future value after one year 713239200 x $0.022(spot rate after 1 year) = $15691262.4 Question no.2: If the net baht received from the Thailand operations are invested in Thailand‚ how will US operations be affected? Assume that Blades is currently paying 10% on dollar borrowed and needs more financing for its firm. Answer: Thai baht is depreciating against dollar which in turn will affect the cash inflows. Secondly it is mentioned that are used to cover the cost of goods sold in
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The case I like to identify is one that involves Tulsa Police Officer Marvin Blades. The case describes a Tulsa Police Officer that was arrested on August 25 2012. He was charged with five counts of second degree robbery that occurred from August 9th 2011 to August 24th 2012. The prosecutor stated that Officer Blades was "corrupt‚" when District Judge Tom Gilbert then handed down a split 70-year sentence. The sentencing requires Mr. Blades to serve a 35 year prison term then upon release will
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Study on the Competitiveness of the European Steel Sector Within the Framework Contract of Sectoral Competitiveness Studies – ENTR/06/054 Final report‚ August 2008 Client: Directorate-General Enterprise & Industry ECORYS SCS Group P.O. Box 4175 3006 AD Rotterdam Watermanweg 44 3067 GG Rotterdam The Netherlands T +31 (0)10 453 88 16 F +31 (0)10 453 07 68 E fwc-scs@ecorys.com W www.ecorys.com Registration no. 24316726 Table of contents Executive summary...........................
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Chapter 13 Problem Outline typical PLC with reference one specific industry to capture market shares. Briefly explain the start and end of particular model. Proton Industry level: Automobile Sector of industry level: 1.3 or 1.5 spec Individual product level: Exora‚Perdana‚Saga‚Neo PLC of Proton The product life cycle is an important concept in marketing. It describes the stages a product goes through from when it was first thought of until it finally is removed
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1 a) The named organization that is being discussed in this case study is FirstGroup PLC which is a transport company based in the UK. It generates revenues of approximately 5 billion pounds every year and employs staff of over 137‚000 over the UK and North America. The estimated amount of passengers that this company transports is about 2.5 billion per annum. That was a brief overview of the organization that is being dealt in the case study. Moving onto PESTEL which is the brief analysis of any
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