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International Financial Management
2. Consider 8.5 percent Swiss franc/U.S. dollar dual-currency bonds that pay $666.67 at maturity per SF1,000 of par value. It sells at par. What is the implicit SF/$ exchange rate at maturity? Will
1. Your firm has just issued five-year floating-rate notes indexed to six-month U.S. dollar LIBOR plus 1/4 percent. What is the amount of the first coupon payment your firm will pay per $1,000 of
7. What should a borrower consider before issuing dual-currency bonds? What should an investor consider before investing in dual-currency bonds?
6. You are an investment banker advising a Eurobank about a new international bond offering it is considering. The proceeds are to be used to fund Eurodollar loans to bank clients.What type of bond
5. Discuss the process of bringing a new international bond issue to market.
4. What factors does S&P Global Ratings analyze in determining the credit rating it assigns to a sovereign government?
3. Why do most international bonds have high Moody’s or Standard & Poor’s credit ratings?
2. Briefly define each of the major types of international bond market instruments, noting their distinguishing characteristics.
1. Describe the differences between foreign bonds and Eurobonds. Also discuss why Eurobonds make up the lion’s share of the international bond market.
12. James Clark is a currency trader with Wachovia. He notices the following quotes:a. Is the interest rate parity holding? You may ignore transaction costs.b. Is there an arbitrage opportunity? If
11. After studying Iris Hamson’s credit analysis, George Davies is considering whether he can increase the holding period return on Yucatan Resort’s excess cash holdings (which arepage 181 held
8. Omni Advisors, an international pension fund manager, uses the concepts of purchasing power parity (PPP) and the International Fisher Effect (IFE) to forecast spot exchange rates. Omni gathers the
13. Suppose you conduct currency carry trade by borrowing $1,000,000 at the start of each year and investing in the New Zealand dollar for one year. One-year interest rates and the exchange rate
1. Efficient Funds Flow at Eastern Trading Company The Eastern Trading Company of Singapore purchases spices in bulk from around the world, packages them into consumer-size quantities, and sells them
2. Eastern Trading Company’s New MBA The Eastern Trading Company of Singapore presently follows a decentralized system of cash management where it and its affiliates each maintain their own
1. There are three production stages required before a pair of skis produced by Fjord Fabrication can be sold at retail for NOK2,300. Fill in the following table to show the value added at each stage
1. Alpha and Beta Companies can borrow for a five-year term at the following rates:a. Calculate the quality spread differential (QSD).b. Develop an interest rate swap in which both Alpha and Beta
2. A U.S. firm holds an asset in France and faces the following scenario:In the above table, P* is the euro price of the asset held by the U.S. firm and P is the dollar price of the asset.a. Compute
1. Compute the domestic country beta of Telmex as well as its world beta. What do these betas measure? Correlation Coefficients Telmex Mexico World SD (%) R(%) Telmex Mexico 1.00 .90 0.60 18 ? 1.00
2. Suppose the Mexican stock market is segmented from the rest of the world. Using the CAPM paradigm, estimate the equity cost of capital of Telmex. Correlation Coefficients Telmex Mexico World SD
6. Karla Ferris, a fixed income manager at Mangus Capital Management, expects the current positively sloped U.S. Treasury yield curve to shift parallel upward.Ferris owns two $1,000,000 corporate
3. Suppose now that Telmex has made its shares tradable internationally via cross-listing on the NYSE. Again using the CAPM paradigm, estimate Telmex’s equity cost of capital.Discuss the possible
2. The Eastern Trading Company of Singapore ships prepackaged spices to Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, and the United States, where they are resold by sales affiliates. Eastern Trading is concerned
7. George Johnson is considering a possible six-month $100 million LIBOR-based, floatingrate bank loan to fund a project at terms shown in the table below. Johnson fears a possible rise in the LIBOR
6. Suppose we obtain the following data in dollar terms:The correlation coefficient between the two markets is 0.58. Suppose that you invest equally, that is, 50 percent in each of the two markets.
8. Jacob Bower has a liability that:has a principal balance of $100 million on June 30, 2008, accrues interest quarterly starting on June 30, 2008, pays interest quarterly, has a one-year term to
1.. Exhibit 1 gives details for the two alternative debt issues. Exhibit 2 provides current information about spot currency exchange rates and the three-year tenor euro/U.S. dollar currency and
8. The HFS Trustees have solicited input from three consultants concerning the risks and rewards of an allocation to international equities. Two of them strongly favor such action, while the third
1. On August 3, 1995, the Maharashtra state government of India, dominated by the nationalist, right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), abruptly canceled Enron’s $2.9 billion power project in
9. Rebecca Taylor, an international equity portfolio manager, recognizes that an optimal country allocation strategy combined with an optimal currency strategy should produce optimal portfolio
10. The Glover Scholastic Aid Foundation has received a €20 million global government bond portfolio from a Greek donor. This bond portfolio will be held in euros and managed separately from
1. Assume that interaffiliate cash flows are uncorrelated with one another. Calculate the standard deviation of the portfolio of cash held by the centralized depository for the following affiliate
LO1 explain the contents of a statement of cash flows (16.1)
LO2 prepare a statement of cash flows using the direct method (16.2)
LO3 prepare a statement of cash flows using the indirect method (16.4)
LO1 describe the purpose of performance management (17.1)
LO2 explain the DuPont system of ratio analysis (17.2)
LO3 apply integrative financial ratio analysis to analyse and evaluate an organisation’s financial performance (17.3)
LO4 describe the role of non-financial performance measures and the types of information they capture (17.4)
LO5 identify the key features of performance measures (17.5)
LO6 describe the purpose of the balanced scorecard (BSC) framework and its components (17.6)
LO7 explain how the BSC framework can be adapted for use in for-purpose and public-sector enterprises, and in sustainability performance management (17.6)
LO8 identify factors to effectively implement the BSC framework (17.6)
LO9 describe an analytics mindset and how it can inform organisational performance management (17.7)
LO10 explain how financial and non-financial performance measures can be used to motivate managers (17.8)
LO5 explain how management use cash flow information (16.6).
1 What do we learn about an organisation from completing financial statement ratio analysis?
2 Explain the benefits of applying the DuPont system of ratio analysis.
3 Do you think financial statement ratio analysis provides all the information that managers and investors require?
4 What do we learn from non-financial performance measures?
5 Outline the reasons for and against disclosing non-financial performance information in a company’s annual report.
6 The balanced scorecard (BSC) framework enables managers to evaluate strategic performance. Explain why this is necessary. What are some of the benefits of this form of performance reporting?
7 What are the four perspectives communicated used in the BSC framework? Provide two examples of performance measures for each category.
8 What skills do accountants have that are important in the development of a balanced scorecard (BSC)?
9 Why do organisations prepare a strategy map, in addition to their BSC? In your response, consider how a strategy map may be used in practice.
10 What challenges might exist in applying the BSC framework to an organisation?
11 Why might improved performance on non-financial measures not result in improved financial performance?
12 An investor in the Australian stock market asks you, ‘Why doesn’t everyone prepare a balanced scorecard and report it to the markets? It makes the company’s financial information easier to
13 Explain what are big data and data analytics. Why is data analytics required?
14 What is an analytics mindset? List the four key elements of this mindset.
15 A senior member of a large public company’s management team complained, ‘Why do our accounting and finance professionals need training to adopt an analytics mindset? We have data analysts,
Given the following information, what is cash flow from operations?• cash sales, $150 000• credit sales, $290 000• cash received from accounts receivable, $210 000• repayment of borrowings to
It is important for you to understand what goes into an accounts receivable account and an inventory account.What is the journal entry for credit sales of $100 000 of goods that cost the company $70
The opening and closing balances of accounts receivable were $100 000 and $180 000 respectively. Sales on credit were $300 000. What was the amount of cash received from customers?
Given the following account balances, what was the amount paid to suppliers during the year?$Inventory, 1 July 2021 250 000 Inventory, 30 June 2022 290 000 Accounts payable, 1 July 2021 130 000
The prepaid insurance account showed an opening balance of $24 000 and a closing balance of $27 000.Insurance expense was $69 000. What were the cash payments for insurance?
The income tax payable account showed an opening balance of $50 000 and a closing balance of $75 000.Income tax expense was $200 000. What was the income tax paid?
If a company sells a piece of equipment with a book value of $100 000 (cost $250 000 less accumulated depreciation of $150 000) for $80 000, what is the journal entry?
The net operating profit of Luke Ltd was $31 000. Depreciation expense was $10 000 and gain on sale of equipment $2000. Accounts receivable increased by $15 000 and inventory decreased by $7000.
The financial year for Neverless Limited ends on 30 June 2022. During the month of June 2022, the company has incurred the following transactions:(i) Sent invoices for $20 000 to customers for work
Prepare a schedule of cash flows from operating activities Following is the income statement for JKL Limited.JKL LIMITED INCOME STATEMENT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2022$ $Sales 13 000 Less: Cost of
Calculate cash payments 1 Cost of goods sold = $2 300 000 Inventory increased from $300 000 to $610 000 Accounts payable increased from $200 000 to $295 000 Required: calculate cash payments for
Prepare a statement of cash flows The following information relates to Tut Ltd.TUT LTD COMPARATIVE BALANCE SHEET AS AT 30 JUNE 2022 2022 2021$000 $000 Current assets Cash — 20 Accounts receivable
1 What are cash and cash equivalents?
2 Provide examples of trends in operating, investing and financing cash flows that would be of concern to:a investors b creditors.
The items following were taken from a listed company’s statement of cash flows. Classify each item as operating, investing or financing. For each item state whether cash is increasing or
Prepare a cash flow statement EXPRESS LTD COMPARATIVE BALANCE SHEETS FOR 2022 AND 2021 2022 2021$ $Current assets Cash 93 50 Accounts receivable 80 60 Inventory 70 100 Prepaid insurance 40 25 Total
Operating, financing and investing activities The following information relates to LL Ltd.LL LTD COMPARATIVE BALANCE SHEETS 2022 2021$ $Current assets Cash 95 000 105 000 Accounts receivable 330 000
Cash flow from operations The following data are extracted from the financial statements of Flutes Ltd:2022 2021$ $Accounts receivable 240 000 265 000 Inventory 340 000 380 000 Salaries payable 80
Cash flows for financing and investing The following data are extracted from the financial statements of Hippolyta Ltd.2022 2021$ $Equipment 128 000 192 000 Accumulated depreciation – equipment (35
Cash flow from financing The following data are extracted from the financial statements of Theseus Limited:2022 2021$ $Share capital 368 000 321 000 Retained earnings 210 000 198 000 Net profit 38
Preparation of a statement of cash flows The following information relates to Sandra Limited.Comparative balance sheets 30 June 2022 30 June 2021$000 $000 Current assets Cash 193 240 Accounts
Cash flow from operations (data includes bad and doubtful debts)The following information is taken from the accounts of Registration Ltd for the year ended 31 December 2022:$Accounts receivable, 1
Interpreting a statement of cash flows Outline the five most important things you learn about TLH Ltd from the following consolidated statement of cash flows for the year ended 30 June 2022.2022
Using the two years cash flow information presented below, outline the four most important things you learn about Emerald Ltd.EMERALD LTD CASH FLOW STATEMENTS OVER TWO YEARS 2022 2021$000 $000 Cash
Simple cash flow statement – indirect method Janali Limited prepares its statement of cash flows using the indirect method. Its balance sheet shows the following information:30/06/2022 30/06/2021$
Comment on a company’s cash management (indirect method)Axiomatic Ltd’s statement of cash flows for last year is shown. Provide observations about how the company managed its cash during the
Indirect method The income statement and balance sheet provide the following information for 2022.INCOME STATEMENT FOR YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2022$ $Service revenue 60 000 Expenses:Salaries 40 000
Reconstructing account balances from a statement of cash flows XYZ LIMITED STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2022 Consolidated 2022 2021 Cash flows from operating activities Cash
Preparation of a statement of cash flow (advanced)An income statement and a comparative balance sheet for Borachio Ltd are as follows:BORACHIO LTD COMPARATIVE BALANCE SHEET AS AT 30 JUNE 2022 AND
Ethics of cash flow manipulation There is an interesting ethical issue behind the very reason that the statement of cash flows is thought by some people to have advantages over the income statement.
Refer to the extracts of the annual report of Woolworths Limited in this book’s appendix. All questions relate to the consolidated accounts.1 What are the main components of cash flows from
Consolidated cash flow statement for Qantas Ltd QANTAS GROUP Notes 2020 2019(restated)1$m $m CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES Cash receipts from customers 14 460 19 050 Cash payments to suppliers
Interpreting the One.Tel Limited statement of cash flows Shown as follows are the 1999 and 2000 cash flow statements for One.Tel Limited, a telecommunications company that was delisted in
Variations in the pattern of cash flows The 2021 statement of cash flows for Telstra Limited is shown. Explain these changes in the pattern of cash flows between 2021 and 2020.TELSTRA GROUP Year
Interpreting a cash flow statement for two retailers Extracts from the 2021 statement of cash flows from two Australian companies, Myer Holdings Limited and Harvey Norman Holdings Limited are
How well did Harvey Norman perform in 2021 compared with 2020?
With which companies might Harvey Norman compare its financial performance?
Select a company with which you are familiar, such as Transurban or one of the big four banks (ANZ, Commonwealth Bank, NAB, Westpac) and review the front section of its annual report. What financial
Here are four performance measures for an airline: Profit growth, Investment in ground crew training, On-time departure % and Customer satisfaction rating. To which perspective of the BSC framework
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