The Eastern Trading Company of Singapore purchases spices in bulk from around the world, packages them into consumer-size quantities, and sells them through sales affiliates in Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, and the United States. For a recent month, the following payments matrix of interaffiliate cash flows, stated in Singapore dollars, was forecast. Show how Eastern Trading can use multilateral netting to minimize the foreign exchange transactions necessary to settle interaffiliate payments. If foreign exchange transactions cost the company .5 percent, what savings result fromnetting?

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Eastern Trading Company Payments Matrix (S$000) Disbursements Total Receipts SingaporeHong Kong U.K.U.S 40 Receipts 170 30 32 45 277 75 Singapore Hong Kong U.K. U.S Total disbursements 15 25 65 34 84 94