ACFI 703 March 27‚ 2013 Hedging Currency Risks at AIF The American Institute of Foreign Studies (AIFS) is a company that organizes student exchange programs worldwide with two main divisions. The College Division arranges academic years and semesters or summer schools. The High School Division organizes 1-4 week educational travels for students and teachers. More than 50‚000 students participate each year in exchange programs of AIFS‚ which leads to annual revenues of around $ 200 million. AIFS
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Multinational consolidation and currency translation • Consolidated financial statement Consolidated financial statements are financial statements that factor the holding company’s subsidiaries into its aggregated accounting figure. It is a representation of how the holding company is doing as a group. The consolidated accounts should provide a true and fair view of the financial and operating conditions of the group. Doing so typically requires a complex set of eliminating and consolidating
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Case Study Essay – Hedging Currency Risks at AIFS The American Institute for Foreign Study (AIFS) is offering cultural exchange programs for American students and High School pupils throughout the world. Their customers have the possibility to go abroad while the AIFS organises the whole trip for them. Due to their business model the revenues of the company are denominated only in USD‚ since the offer is for American students who pay in USD. Meanwhile the costs of the company is mostly denominated
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& Social Sciences Research (JBM&SSR) ISSN No: 2319-5614 Volume 1‚ No.2‚ November 2012 _________________________________________________________________________________ An Analysis of Indian Financial Derivatives Market and its Position in Global Financial Derivatives Market Dr. Shree Bhagwat‚ Asst. Professor‚ Faculty of Management Studies‚ Dr. H.S. Gour Central University‚ Sagar (M.P.) India. Ritesh Omre‚ Student‚ Department of Business Management‚ BTIRT‚ Affiliated with Dr. H.S. Gour Central
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Introduction: The Optimum currency areas theory is the seminal contributions developed by Mundell (1961)‚ it attempts to answer a question under which conditions a certain country would like to join a fixed exchange rates system. According to Krugman (2000)‚ if the monetary efficiency gain of one country exceeds its economic stability loss‚ the country will wish to join a monetary union/ a fixed exchange rate system. In this paper‚ the theory of optimum currency areas will be analysed in part
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the Euro but remaining in the Target 2 payment system or leaving the Euro and Target 2. In the first case‚ Greece could decide to continue to participate in Target 2‚ paying immediately back the debt to the Eurosystem; and this is a very unlikely situation. Alternatively‚ one possible arrangement may be for Greece to have a derogation. Moreover‚ a periodical recovery plan should be set. The interest rate paid on the debt positions is equal to the rate of MROs(marginal refinancing operations)‚which
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fundamental analysis‚ the euro exchange rates are expected to depreciate in the long-run. Although there was a short uptrend during last week‚ which was driven by yields‚ the investors worry more about deflation and the euro’s resilience. What’s more‚ the ECB rates are highly expected to be cut after ECB’s policy meeting on Thursday. The market is expecting a 25bps reduction in the benchmark rate to 0.50% from the current 0.75%. During the last week‚ many weak economic data in the currency bloc has been reported
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No.21‚ 2012 www.iiste.org Agri Business Financing In Bangladesh‚ a Case Study on Bangladesh Krishi Bank Nushrat Nahida Afroz *(Corresponding author) Lecturer‚ Bachelor of Business Administration Mawlana Bhasani Science and Technology University *E-mail:nnafroz20@yahoo.com. Abstract This paper discusses the important issues pertaining to the agribusiness activities in Bangladesh. The author presents an overview of Bank wise involvement in financing agribusiness. Moreover‚ the paper also enlightens
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After the massive success that the Walt Disney Company has achieved in Tokyo‚ the company suffered a big failure in the next overseas expansion venture which was named Euro Disneyland. The failure’s main reason was the lack of the emotional intelligence that should be present in effective leaders. In particular‚ the emotional intelligence components are: self-awareness‚ self-regulation‚ motivation‚ empathy‚ and social skill. The most important element that was missing in this case is empathy which
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