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Cemerlang Inc. is a conglomerate company which has four subsidiaries located in Brunei, Malaysia, United Kingdom, and Switzerland. The exchange rates available for the company

Cemerlang Inc. is a conglomerate company which has four subsidiaries located in Brunei, Malaysia, United Kingdom, and Switzerland. The exchange rates available for the company are MYR2.9000/BND, GBP0.4000/BND and BND1.2500/CHF. The following is the intersubsidiary payments matrix for Cemerlang Inc in multiple currency.

RECEIVING

SUBSIDIARY

(in millions)

PAYING SUBSIDIARY (in million)
Brunei malaysia UK Switzerland
Brunei MYR58 GBP10 CHF12.5
malaysia BND10 GBP12 CHF16.25
UK BND20 MYR29 CHF20
Switzerland BND15 MYR43.5 GBP6

a. Convert all the cash flows into Brunei Dollar (BND) and fill in the table cells below to show the intersubsidiary payments matrix for Cemerlang Group. If the transaction cost is 2%, how much the company need to pay (in BND) if they decided not to do any netting?

RECEIVING

SUBSIDIARY

( BND in millions)

PAYING SUBSIDIARY ( BND in million)
Brunei malaysia UK Switzerland
Brunei
malaysia 10
UK 20
Switzerland 15

Transaction cost in BND with no netting:_____________________

b. Perform multilateral netting by filling up the table below. If the transaction cost is 2%, how much the company need to pay (in BND) if they decided to do multilateral netting?

RECEIVING

SUBSIDIARY

(BND in million)

PAYING SUBSIDIARY (BND in million)
Brunei malaysia UK Switzerland total receipt total receipt/(payment)
Brunei
malaysia
UK
Switzerland
total payment

Transaction cost in BND with multilateral netting:_____________________

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