Corporate foreign exchange risk management

"Corporate Foreign Exchange Risk Management offers a highly accessible yet thorough guide to FX exposure management that will appeal to anyone with who is responsible for managing a profit & loss or balance sheet affected by FX fluctuations or who wants to understand how FX fluctuations affect the firm more generally. The effective FX risk manager needs to be able to navigate both the worlds of financial management and economics. Whereas academics tend to talk about the economics of the risk management decision, the reality for the corporate manager is a strong and never-ending attention on performance metrics heavily impacted by accounting rules. This book is about bridging and demystifying these two worlds and equipping the manager with the tools and knowledge to deal effectively with a broad range of matters related to foreign exchange risk management"--

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- About the Authors -- Preface -- Key Terms and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Two Stylized Facts About Exchange Rates -- A Definition of FXRM -- Quoting Exchange Rates -- Outline of the Book -- Further Reading -- Chapter 1 Why Manage Foreign Exchange Risk? -- From Individual Risk Management to Corporate Risk Management -- The Case for FXRM: Cash Flow Hedging -- The Case for FXRM: Protecting Financial Ratios -- The Case for FXRM: Managing Net Income Variability -- Key Chapter Takeaways -- Further Reading

Chapter 2 Commercial Exposure to FX -- The Basics of Transaction Exposure -- Forecasting Net Exposures -- A Simple Model of Commercial Exposure -- Competitive Exposures -- The Mystery of the 'Underlying' Currency -- Shortcomings of the Bottom-up Method -- The Statistical Method of Exposure Measurement -- Key Chapter Takeaways -- Further Reading -- Chapter 3 Net Income Exposure to FX -- The Basics of Translation Exposure -- Monetary vs Non-monetary Assets -- The Issue of Functional vs Transaction Currency -- The Exposure Matrix -- External Exposures on Internal Transactions

Key Chapter Takeaways -- Further Readin…