A U.S. firm is receiving 185m JPY in 3 months' time. JPY Futures are available on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) with a contract size of 12,500,000 JPY and currently trade at 0.009502 JPY/USD. The contract maintenance margin is 3600 USD with an initial margin of 110% of the maintenance margin.

a) What will be the initial futures cash flow required (amount and currency)? b) Assuming that the exposure and contract maturity dates are the same, what is the expected total (Physical + Hedge) net USD cashflow? (You may ignore the time value of money and you may assume that the Unbiased Expectations Hypothesis holds)