AFM 322 Hedging Currency Risk at AIFS 1. Case Synopsis Christopher Archer-Lock and Becky Tabaczynski both work for American Institute for Foreign Study (“AIFS”). Archer-Lock is the controller of AIFS and Tabaczynski is the CFO of AIFS’s high school travel division ACIS. AIFS a student exchange organization that organizes educational and cultural exchange programs throughout the world. Founded in the U.S. in 1964‚ AIFS has annual revenues of close to $200 million and sent more than 50‚000 students
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which it can pass on to its customers. If Wal-Mart were a country then it would be China’s eighth largest trading partner ahead of Russia‚ Australia‚ and Canada. Wal-Mart’s non-Chinese owned suppliers operating in China number nearly 5‚000 and all of them benefit from a low valued yuan compared to the dollar. The 176 million worldwide customers of Wal-Mart also benefit from the low valued yuan. With nearly 70% of Wal-Mart’s products coming from China a sharp increase in the value of the yuan
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Foreign Currency Management Exchange Rate This is the rate at which the currency of one country would change hands with currency of another country. E.g. $1 = SLR 130 Types of Exchange Rate 1. Floating Rate This rate depends on a levels of the international trade of a country and it does not interfere with the government of that country. 2. Fixed Rate This is the rate that the government of the country would set its own currency rate and it is not depending on the market rate. 3. Dirty
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CHAPTER 7: CURRENCY FUTURES AND OPTION MARKETS 7.1 FUTURE CONTRACTS 7.1.1 Definition of future contract–> contracts written requiring a standard quantity of an available currency at a fixed exchange rate and at a set delivery date. A future contract is defined as a contractual agreement to buy or sell an asset at a pre-determined price in the future. The contracts detail the quality and quantity of the underlying asset. Background of currency futures in 1972: Chicago Mercantile Exchange
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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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CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 2-3 CURRENCY RISK EXPOSURE WITHIN THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT 4 COMPANY MANAGEMENT OF CURRENCY RISK EXPOSURE 5 PRIMARY ALTERNATIVES IN MANAGING CURRENCY RISKS 6-8 RECOMMENDATIONS AND BENEFITS 9 CONCLUSION
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Case Study Analysis Case 11-4 Functional Currency Determination — IFRS 2009: Sparkle Company is a Nigerian diamond mining company. (Nigerian currency is the Naira (NGN).) Sparkle is a joint venture‚ 50 percent owned by Shine and 50 percent owned by Brighten. Both Shine and Brighten are U.S.-based companies with US$ functional currency. This year‚ Sparkle had several transactions with its joint venture owners and outside parties. The details of Sparkle’s transactions are as follows: Loans
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PLEKHANOV RUSSIAN ECONOMIC UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT Case Study REPORT Hedging Currency Risks At AIFS Professor: Yulia Y.Finogenova Performed by: Budeanu Diana Gabaydullin Ilnar Kulikova Ekaterina
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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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for the alternative of currency. As early as the Mesopotamians and Ancient Egyptians‚ currency had been created from golden rings and bars in order to accumulate wealth and trading power. Similar concepts and ideas of currency developed independently around the globe in order for society to overcome economic needs. The economic values of European settlers in North America had a profound impact on the ways that the indigenous peoples of the area lived by created a currency from what was once a traditional
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