Category: Finance

What do you think of GM’s foreign exchange hedging policies? Would you advise any changes?Why is GM worried about the ARS exposure? What operational decisions could it have made or now make to manage this exposure?

GM Hedging-Case Study

Write down the questions and answer to submit.

1. Should multinational firms hedge foreign exchange rate risk and why? If not, what are the consequences? If so, how should they decide which exposure to hedge?

2. What do you think of GM’s foreign exchange hedging policies? Would you advise any changes?

3. Should GM deviate from its policy in hedging its CAD exposure? Why or why not?

4. Why is GM worried about the ARS exposure? What operational decisions could it have made or now make to manage this exposure?

Explain why any noticeable volatility in the currency’s exchange rate against the US dollar occurred, giving adequate reference to knowledge learnt during the course.

Investigate Finland’s adoption of a negative interest rate policy and the implications for its currency’s value.

In recent decades, some major economies and regions, including Japan, the Eurozone, and a few others, have adopted zero and then negative interest rates: a historically unconventional monetary policy response.

This assignment requires that you investigate Finland’s adoption of a negative interest rate policy and the implications for its currency’s value and develop an essay on this topic.

In this essay you will need to explain why any noticeable volatility in the currency’s exchange rate against the US dollar occurred, giving adequate reference to knowledge learnt during the course. You need to cite appropriate references from academic journals, government announcements and publications, newspapers, institutional reports, etc., to support your argument.

Assuming your industry average P/E ratioor multiplier, what is your terminal value ($) for year 4as an exit valuation?

Case 1: Forecasting as an early stage venture

Your gross burn (in $) for each of the 4 years(6 points)

Your profit margin (in $ and %) for each of the 4 years(6 points)

Assuming your industry average P/E ratioor multiplier, what is your terminal value ($) for year 4as an exit valuation?

Write a convincing letter to obtain funding to pay for classes desperately need financial assistance about 8,000 more. COVID have impacted my family tremendously mom hours cut in half it has been difficult.

Funding

Write a convincing letter to obtain funding to pay for classes desperately need financial assistance about 8,000 more. COVID have impacted my family tremendously mom hours cut in half it has been difficult.

tried to work hours were few. am a wrestler my coach is also assisting me will be the first in my family to graduate college . live in a household of 10 share room with grandpa am away at college love it here in this city would love to graduate college obtain employment and remain in the city of Alvernia.

Describe what use you would make of the information this spreadsheet confers to you. You do not need an introduction or conclusion for this “essay,” just a coherent, well organized discussion of how you would use this information to make your life better.

Personal Income Statement (Excel spreadsheet & a few paragraphs

1. Using Excel, or Google Sheets, create a household income statement.

2. Use all the actual categories you can think of, but you need not use your real amounts. So, for example, you could make your salary what you think it will be in five years, or budget your phone bill at what you think it will be when you switch carriers or you add all of your family members to your plan.

3. Down the side of the sheet have an Income section with a Total and below that an Expenses section with a Total.

4. Below that have a Grand Total that subtracts Total Expenses from Total Income.

5. Across the top put the months of the year, starting with January and next to each month make a:

a. Budget column,

b. Actual column

c. Budget to Actual column and

d. Percent of Total column.

i. The Percent of Total column is the percent of Total Income or Total Expenses. For example, if the only contribution to your household income is your paycheck, that paycheck is 100 percent of Total Income.

6. With this spreadsheet PROVIDE A FEW PARAGRAPHS that describe what use you would make of the information this spreadsheet confers to you. You do not need an introduction or conclusion for this “essay,” just a coherent, well organized discussion of how you would use this information to make your life better.

7. INCLUDE AT LEAST ONE PARAGRAPH about how mitigation measures related to COVID-19 have influenced your spending, or how you imagine it may influence your spending. E.g. people working from home report saving money on gas but spending money on office supplies.

What are some of the reasons central banks and treasuries enter the foreign exchange markets,and in what important ways are they different from other foreign exchange participants?

The Foreign Exchange Market

1) ________ seek to profit from trading in the market itself rather than having the foreign

exchange transaction being incidental to the execution of a commercial or investment transaction.

2) Foreign exchange ________ earn a profit by a bid-ask spread on currencies they purchase and

sell. Foreign exchange ________, on the other hand, earn a profit by bringing together buyers and

sellers of foreign currencies and earning a commission on each sale and purchase.

3) What are some of the reasons central banks and treasuries enter the foreign exchange markets,

and in what important ways are they different from other foreign exchange participants?

4) A ________ transaction in the foreign exchange market requires delivery of foreign exchange at

some future date.

5) What are the four currencies that constitute about 80% of all foreign exchange trading?

6) A foreign exchange ________ is the price of one currency expressed in terms of another

currency. A foreign exchange ________ is a willingness to buy or sell at the announced rate.

7) Most foreign exchange transactions are through the U.S. dollar. If the transaction is expressed as

the foreign currency per dollar this known as ________ whereas ________ are expressed as

dollars per foreign unit

Answers all questions and give short explanation. Reference the PowerPoint attached Questions are at the end of PowerPoints. You do not have to add question to the paper.

What is the bank of the future look like and the implications of your vision for the types of risk the bank will be exposed to, and what would need to happen to ensure the effective management of these risks.

The future of bank risk management

‘Bank to the future’: the future of bank risk management

This assignment requires you to formulate a view about what is the bank of the future look like

and the implications of your vision for the types of risk the bank will be exposed to, and what would

need to happen to ensure the effective management of these risks.

Explain how you reached the answer or show your work if a mathematical calculation is needed, or both. Submit your assignment using the assignment link.

Cost of Capital

Answer the following questions in a separate document. Explain how you reached the answer or show your work if a mathematical calculation is needed, or both. Submit your assignment using the assignment link.

This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

respond to the following:

1. Bad Boys, Inc. is evaluating its cost of capital. Under consultation, Bad Boys, Inc. expects to issue new debt at par with a coupon rate of 8% and to issue new preferred stock with a $2.50 per share dividend at $25 a share.

The common stock of Bad Boys, Inc. is currently selling for $20.00 a share. Bad Boys, Inc. expects to pay a dividend of $1.50 per share next year.

An equity analyst foresees a growth in dividends at a rate of 5% per year. The Bad Boys, Inc. marginal tax rate is 35%. If Bad Boys, Inc. raises capital using 45% debt, 5% preferred stock, and 50% common stock, what is Bad Boys, Inc.’s cost of capital?

2. If Bad Boys, Inc. raises capital using 30% debt, 5% preferred stock, and 65% common stock, what is Bad Boys, Inc.’s cost of capital?

Based on your analysis on the stock price and the financial statements, as Sabrina Gupta, what recommendation would you make and why? , be detail.

Wal-Mart Case Study-Finance

This case is assuming you are in 2010, but not in current year.

1. As of February 2010, what is your assessment of the worth of Wal-Mart’s stock? Utilize the methods below to value the shares,

a. The perpetual growth in dividends

b. The price/earnings approach

You will also need to use Capital Asset Pricing Model to compute the cost of equity of the company. Show your work and explain. (50 points)

2. Based on your analysis on the stock price and the financial statements, as Sabrina Gupta, what recommendation would you make and why? , be detail. (40 points)

APA format required. (10 points)

Why is it important to demonstrate ethics and professional integrity when performing financial analyses or creating financial models?

Finance Discussions

Answer the following

1.Why is it important to demonstrate ethics and professional integrity when performing financial analyses or creating financial models?

2. Most of us are more familiar with financial statements in a classroom setting than with real financials. Select a company. Each student MUST select a different company. Look up its’ most recent financial statements. Financial statements means the Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Statement of Cash Flows and Statement of Shareholder’s Equity.

Select 3 items from those statements that you understood and 3 that you found hard to understand. Find definitions to the items you are not familiar with – remembering to cite sources.

FYI the company you select will be used to support/respond to other discussion questions this term.

Guidelines: one person per company. Must be a public company traded on an exchange. Must have been public at least two years or at least three years of financial information.

You can use AT&T for your company