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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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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Assignment Topic 2 AUD/USD Exchange Rate The main movements of the AUD/USD exchange rate in the past eighteen months will be studied‚ as well as the underlying conditions that caused these specific movements to happen. Economic models and theories will be used to support the discussion and to analyse the reason for these fluctuations. Discussion will then take place to whether these movements have been a help or a hindrance to the overall health of the Australian economy. FIGURE 1.0
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Questions The balance in Newsprint Corp.’s foreign exchange loss account was $10‚000 on December 31‚ 2008‚ before any necessary year-end adjustment relating to the following: (1) Newsprint had a $15‚000 debit resulting from the restatement in dollars of the accounts of its wholly owned foreign subsidiary for the year ended December 31‚ 2008. (2) Newsprint had an account payable to an unrelated foreign supplier‚ payable in the supplier’s local currency unit (LCU) on January 15‚ 2009. The U.S. dollar–equivalent
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Report on Foreign Exchange Reserves Reserve Bank of India Central Office Mumbai 2005-06 (covering period up to March 2006) Content Movement of Reserves 1. Introduction 2. Review of Growth of Reserves since 1991 3. Sources of Accretion to Reserves in the Recent Period 4. External Liabilities vis-à-vis Foreign Exchange Reserves 5. Prepayment/Repayment of External Debt 6. Financial Transaction Plan (FTP) of IMF 7. Adequacy of Reserves 8. Investment Pattern and Earnings from
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The CFO can forecast exchange rates by using either of two approaches‚ fundamental forecasting or technical forecasting. Fundamental forecasting uses trends in economic variables to predict future rates. The data can be plugged into an econometric model or evaluated on a more subjective basis. Technical forecasting uses past trends in exchange rates themselves to spot future trends in rates. Technical forecasters‚ or chartists‚ assume that if current exchange rates reflect all facts in the market
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OBJECTIVES The objective of this paper is to investigate the exchange rate volatility and its effects on international Trade in Bangladesh during May 2003-Dec 2008. The concept of the study is taken from one off the working papers of Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS)‚ Bangladesh Bank‚ Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) and leading English and Bengali Dailies in Bangladesh. INTRODUCTION The depth and intensity of exchange rate volatility and its impact on the volume of international trade was
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that show exchange rates‚ but here is one: http://www.usforex.com. 2. Just as with the price of a good‚ the price‚ or exchange rate‚ of a currency is determined by supply and demand. However‚ rather than using a traditional supply and demand analysis as shown in Marthinsen‚ currency traders often consider whether foreign funds will flow into or out of a country as a result of a particular economic circumstance. If foreigners wish to make domestic purchases or investments‚ foreign currency must first
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Global Reserve Currency? Jessica Davis Fort Hays State University ECFI 644 International Economics April 30‚ 2012 Dr. Dosse Toulaboe Abstract China’s economy is growing ever larger‚ but is that enough to get the Chinese Renminbi (more commonly known as Yuan) to be accepted as a global market currency? This paper will look into the liberalization‚ but with Chinese characteristics‚ of five determining factors in becoming a country whose currency is a global reserve
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PLEKHANOV RUSSIAN UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL Case Study HEDGING CURRENCY RISKS at AIFS Risk Management Master’s Degree Students: Bostandzhyan Kristina Inarkaeva Lamara Kirpichnikova Mariya Starovoytov Stanislav Sysoev Alexander Supervisor: Yulia Finogeeva Moscow 2015 INTRODUCTION AND PROBLEM STATEMENT AIFS is an American based company which was found in the U.S. in 1964. There are two main divisions in the company: the College division‚ which offers
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