International Finance


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Expected Duration
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Overview/Description
Perhaps you have wondered how one can successfully navigate the maze of options and opportunities offered by the international financial markets. Are there ways to maximize profits while effectively minimizing risk when it comes to dealing on the global level? This course will demonstrate why you would want to transform your purely domestic firm into a multinational corporation; how you decide which financial products and instruments will allow you to manage your cash flows from international business operations; and, finally, the important steps to take toward managing foreign exchange risk and country risk.

Target Audience
This course is designed specifically for business managers, financial professionals, and other business professionals who have the need to understand finance and investment in corporations, and to analyze their own businesses or the performance of another company.

Expected Duration (hours)
2.0

Lesson Objectives

Doing Business in the Global Arena

  • recognize the value of understanding issues related to international trade.
  • identify the challenges of international trade and direct foreign investment.
  • apply theories of international trade and direct foreign investment, given a scenario.

    • International Financial Markets

  • recognize the benefits of participation in international financial markets.
  • determine the best use of foreign exchange markets, given a scenario.
  • identify how a multinational corporation may benefit from using the Eurocurrency market.
  • identify how a multinational corporation may benefit from using the international bond and equity markets.
  • describe the role of international banking in international finance.

    • Global Financial Risk Management

  • recognize the benefits of managing international financial risk.
  • determine how certain international economic conditions will affect the strength of a particular currency, given a scenario.
  • design the best strategy for managing operating exposure, given a scenario.
  • design the best strategy for managing transaction exposure, given a scenario.
  • design the best strategy for managing country risk, given a scenario.

    • Course Number:
    FIN0217