Multinational Financial Management

Focus on intermediate and advanced global financial practices, and methods for developing your analytical skills to make sound financial decisions on a global scale.

• Understand the relationships between interest rates, foreign exchange, and inflation rates.
• Recognize how to identify foreign exchange exposures and determine if alternative hedging instruments should be used to manage these exposures.
• Analyze current risk management strategies and see how they can mitigate the impact of currency fluctuations on foreign cash flows.
• Evaluate the risks associated with foreign investment opportunities.
• Learn how to prepare a cross-border valuation analysis, and how to estimate foreign currency discount rates using inflation differentials.
• Employ different option strategies to maximize return and minimize risk for your organization.
• Explore how to manage short-term financing, accounts receivable, and accounts payable to ensure clear decision making in a global environment.
• Examine how a global firm’s corporate strategy can affect currency exposure management.

Topics

• Overview of Advanced Global Financial Management
• Financial Options
• Forwards, Futures and Swaps
• Short-term Assets and Liabilities Management
• Currency Exposures
• Currency Hedging
• Country Risks
• Overview & Recap of Advanced Global Financial Management