Exam 8: Management of Transaction Exposure

Your firm is an Italian exporter of bicycles. You have sold an order to a British firm for £1,000,000 worth of bicycles. Payment from the customer (in pounds sterling) is due in 12 months. Use a money market hedge to redenominate this one-year receivable into a euro-denominated receivable with a one-year maturity. The following were computed without rounding. Select the answer closest to yours.

Your firm is a Swiss importer of bicycles. You have placed an order with an Italian firm for €1,000,000 worth of bicycles. Payment (in euro) is due in 12 months. Use a money market hedge to redenominate this one-year receivable into a Swiss franc-denominated receivable with a one-year maturity. The following were computed without rounding. Select the answer closest to yours.

A Japanese IMPORTER has a $1,250,000 PAYABLE due in one year. Detail a strategy using forward contract that will hedge his exchange rate risk.

Your firm is a Swiss exporter of bicycles. You have sold an order to a French firm for €1,000,000 worth of bicycles. Payment from the French firm (in euro) is due in 12 months. Use a money market hedge to redenominate this one-year receivable into a Swiss franc-denominated receivable with a one-year maturity. The following were computed without rounding. Select the answer closest to yours.

In evaluating the pros and cons of corporate risk management, one argument against hedging is

To hedge a foreign currency receivable,

XYZ Corporation, located in the United States, has an accounts payable obligation of ¥750 million payable in one year to a bank in Tokyo. The current spot rate is ¥116/$1.00 and the one year forward rate is ¥109/$1.00. The annual interest rate is 3 percent in Japan and 6 percent in the United States. XYZ can also buy a one-year call option on yen at the strike price of $0.0086 per yen for a premium of 0.012 cent per yen. The future dollar cost of meeting this obligation using the forward hedge is

Your firm is a Swiss importer of bicycles. You have placed an order with a British firm for £1,000,000 worth of bicycles. Payment (in pounds sterling) is due in 12 months. Use a money market hedge to redenominate this one-year pound denominated payable into a Swiss franc-denominated payable with a one-year maturity. The following were computed without rounding. Select the answer closest to yours.

A put option to sell $18,000 at a strike price of $1.80 = £1.00 is equivalent to

Your firm is an Italian importer of British bicycles. You have placed an order with a British firm for £1,000,000 worth of bicycles. Payment (in pounds sterling) is due in 12 months. Use a money market hedge to redenominate this one-year receivable into a euro-denominated receivable with a one-year maturity. The following were computed without rounding. Select the answer closest to yours.

A Japanese EXPORTER has a €1,000,000 receivable due in one year. Detail a strategy using a money market hedge that will eliminate any exchange rate risk.

Your firm is a U.K.-based importer of bicycles. You have placed an order with a Swiss firm for SFr. 1,000,000 worth of bicycles. Payment (in Swiss francs) is due in 12 months. Detail a strategy using futures contracts that will hedge your exchange rate risk. Have an estimate of how many contracts of what type and maturity.

Suppose that Boeing Corporation exported a Boeing 747 to Lufthansa and billed €10 million payable in one year. The money market interest rates and foreign exchange rates are given as follows: Assume that Boeing sells a currency forward contract of €10 million for delivery in one year, in exchange for a predetermined amount of U.S. dollars. Suppose that on the maturity date of the forward contract, the spot rate turns out to be $1.40/€ (i.e. less than the forward rate of $1.46/€). Which of the following is true?

An exporter can shift exchange rate risk to their customers by

Your U.S. firm has a £100,000 payable with a 3-month maturity. Which of the following will hedge your liability?

With any successful hedge

Your U.S. firm has a £100,000 payable with a 3-month maturity. Which of the following will hedge your liability?

When cross-hedging,

The sensitivity of "realized" domestic currency values of the firm's contractual cash flows denominated in foreign currency to unexpected changes in the exchange rate is

ABC Inc., an exporting firm, expects to earn $20 million if the dollar depreciates, but only $10 million if the dollar appreciates. Assume that the dollar has an equal chance of appreciating or depreciating. Step one: calculate the expected tax of ABC if it is operating in a foreign country that has progressive corporate taxes as shown below: Corporate income tax rate = 15% for the first $7,500,000. Corporate income tax rate = 30% for earnings exceeding $7,500,000. Step two: ABC is considering implementing a hedging program that will eliminate their exchange rate risk: they will make a certain $15 million whether or not the dollar appreciates or depreciates. How much will they save in taxes if they implement the program?