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The main goals of this chapter are to: Explain capital structure choices and their impact on the MNC, describe the process of multilateral netting and its contribution to cash flow management, describe the importance of leading and lagging in cash flow management,...
chapter twentyone Financial Management and Accounting McGrawHill/Irwin International Business, 11/e Copyright © 2008 The McGrawHill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved Learning Objectives Explain capital structure choices and their impact on the MNC Describe the process of multilateral netting and its contribution to cash flow management Describe the importance of leading and lagging in cash flow management Categorize foreign exchange risks into transaction exposure, translation exposure, and economic exposure Describe the basic idea of a swap transaction and its applications 21-3 Learning Objectives Explain a currency swap contract and its usefulness to the financial manager Recognize the usefulness and dangers of derivatives Explain the role of and approaches to sales without money Identify the major challenges faced in international accounting Describe the international accounting standards’ convergence process and its importance 21-4 Capital Structure of the Firm • Retained earnings • Debt – Offshore financial center specializes in financing nonresidents, low taxes and few banking regulations • Equity – American depository receipts (ADRs): foreign shares held by a custodian in the issuer’s home market and traded in dollars on the U.S exchange 21-5 Financial Management Decisions • In what currency should capital be raised? • How structured: equity, debt? • What sources of capital? • If capital market, which ones? • Are other sources of money available? • How much and for how long? 21-6 Cash Flow Management • Multilateral Netting – Subsidiaries transfer net intracompany cash flows through a centralized clearing center 21-7 Cash Flow Management • Leading and Lagging – Timing payments early (lead) or late (lag), depending on anticipated currency movements, so they have the most favorable impact 21-8 Foreign Exchange Risk Management • Transaction exposure – Change in the value of financial position created by foreign currency changes between establishment and settlement of contract • Translation exposure – Potential change in value of a company’s financial position due to exposure created during consolidation process • Economic exposure – Potential for value of future cash flows to be affected by unanticipated exchange rate movements 21-9 Transaction Exposure: Hedging • Hedging – process to reduce or eliminate financial risk • Forward market hedge – Foreign currency contract sold or bought forward in order to protect against foreign currency movement • Currency option hedge – Option to buy or sell specific amount of foreign currency at specific time to protect against foreign currency risk • Money market hedge – Method to hedge foreign currency exposure by borrowing and lending in domestic and foreign money markets 21-10 Transaction Exposure: Swaps • Swap contract – Spot sale/purchase of asset against future purchase/sale of equal amount in order to hedge financial position • Bank Swap – Swap made between banks to acquire temporary foreign currencies • Currency Swap – Exchange of debt service of loan or bond in one currency for debt service of loan or bond in another currency 21-11 Transaction Exposure: Swaps cont’d • Interest Rate Swap – Exchange of interest rate flows to manage interest rate exposure • Spot and forward market swaps – Use spot and forward markets to hedge foreign currency exposure • Parallel Loans – Matched loans across currencies made to cover risk 21-12 Translation Approaches – Current rate method • Current assets and liabilities are valued at current spot rates and noncurrent assets and liabilities are translated at historic exchange rates – Temporal method • Monetary accounts are valued at spot rate and accounts carried at historical cost are translated at historic exchange rates 21-13 Hedges and Swaps as “Derivatives” • Contract whose value is tied to the performance of a financial instrument or commodity 21-14 Sales Without Money Countertrade – The trade of goods or services for other goods or services (6 varieties) • Counterpurchase – Goods supplied not rely on the goods imported • Compensation – Developing country makes payment in products produced by use of developed country equipment • Barter – Direct exchange of goods or services for goods or services 21-15 Sales Without Money, cont’d • Switch Trading – Use of third party to market products received in countertrade • Offset – Trade arrangement that requires portion of the inputs be supplied by receiving country • Clearing account arrangements – Process to settle trading account within specified time 21-16 Industrial Cooperation • An exporter’s commitment to a longerterm relationship than that in a simple export sale, in which some of the production occurs in the receiving country (five methods) – Joint Venture – Coproduction and specialization – Subcontracting – Licensing – Turnkey plants 21-17 Taxation and Transfer Pricing • Income tax – Direct tax levied on earnings • Value-added tax (VAT) – Indirect tax collected from parties as they add value to product • Withholding tax – Indirect tax paid by payor, usually on passive income 21-18 Taxation and Transfer Pricing • Transfer Price – The cost of intracompany sale of goods or services 21-19 International Accounting • Accounting and Foreign Currency – Consolidation • Process of translating subsidiary results and aggregating them into one financial report – Functional Currency • Primary currency of a business 21-20 Cultural Differences in Measurement and Disclosure for Accounting Systems 21-21 Convergence of Accounting Standards • Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) – U.S Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (U.S.GAAP) • International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) – International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) 21-22 Use of International Financial Reporting Standards 21-23 Triple Bottom-Line Accounting • 3BL – A results or impact report on the environmental, social, and financial impacts of the business 21-24 ... Convergence of Accounting Standards • Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) – U.S Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (U.S.GAAP) • International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) – International. .. Standards Board (IASB) – International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) 2 1-2 2 Use of International Financial Reporting Standards 2 1-2 3 Triple Bottom-Line Accounting • 3BL – A results or impact... results and aggregating them into one financial report – Functional Currency • Primary currency of a business 2 1-2 0 Cultural Differences in Measurement and Disclosure for Accounting Systems 2 1-2 1