Heslin Corporation, a fertilizer manulacturer in Hamilton, has traditionally bought most of its supplies from local suppliers in Ontario. Americhem Inc., a supplier of a chemical use in the manufacturing of fertilizer has recently opened a manufacturing plant in Cleveland, Ohio. Due to the high quality of the chemical, favourable prices and the proximity of Americhem, Heslin decided to purchase some of its raw materials from Americhem. Heslin Corporation ordered chemicals on February 2 for USS500,000. Delivery took place on February 10 and the full amount was payable in US dollars on June 30. To minimize financing costs of inventory. Heslin Corporation does not pay accounts payable until the due date. Applicable spot rates wore: Fearful that the Canadian dollar might depreciate in value, Amanda Lu, the senior financial accountant for Heslin Corporation, entered into a forward contract on February 2 to buy US\$500,000 on June 30 at a forward rate of CDNS1 = USS0.76. She designated the forward contract as a cash flow hedge. The following exchange took place between Alex Dias, the CEO of Heslin Corporation and Amanda Lu during a senior management meeting on July 18 : Alex: It was clearly a huge mistake to import raw materials from the USA. Any price advantage was negated by a foreign currency exchange loss. Entering into a forward exchange contract compounded this mistake. Amanda: I don' agree. The forward exchange contract actually saved us money. Alex: Well, you should have recorded the payable at CDN\$625,000 on February 2. But because you entered into the forward exchange contract, we ended up paying CDN $657,895. That is a loss of CDNS32,895. Amanda: No, that's not right. The cash flow hedge. Alex: That's another thing. By designating the forward exchange contract as a cash flow hedge, you cost the company even more money. It you had designated it as a fair value hedge, our financial statements would have been better. In fact. you should not have applied hedged accounting at all. Required: Comment on the conversation between Amanda and Alex