Study Guide to accompany Foundations of Multinational Financial Management, 5th Edition

by Alan C. Shapiro (University of Southern California); Andrea L DeMaskey

• ISBN13: 9780471687818
• ISBN10: 0471687812
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-08-01
• Publisher: WILEY

Summary

Work more effectively and gauge your progress along the way! This Study Guide is designed to accompany Shapiro's Foundations of Multinational Financial Management, 5th Edition. It contains detailed chapter outlines and a number of solved questions and problems. Now updated and reorganized, Alan Shapiro's Foundations of Multinational Financial Management, 5th Edition, emphasizes broad concepts and practices, and provides a clear conceptual framework for analyzing key financial decisions in multinational firms. The text treats international financial management as a natural and logical extension of the principles learned in the foundations course in financial management. Thus, it builds on and extends the valuation framework provided by domestic corporate finance to account for dimensions unique to international finance.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Introduction: Multinational Enterprise and Multinational Financial Management	1	(8)
The Determination of Exchange Rates	9	(6)
The International Monetary System	15	(8)
Parity Conditions in International Finance and Currency Forecasting	23	(12)
The Balance of Payments and International Economic Linkages	35	(6)
Country Risk Analysis	41	(6)
The Foreign Exchange Market	47	(10)
Currency Futures and Options Markets	57	(8)
Swaps and Interest Rate Derivatives	65	(6)
Measuring and Managing Translation and Transaction Exposure	71	(14)
Measuring and Managing Economic Exposure	85	(10)
International Financing and National Capital Markets	95	(6)
The Euromarkets	101	(8)
The Cost of Capital for Foreign Investments	109	(10)
International Portfolio Investment	119	(8)
Corporate Strategy and Foreign Direct Investment	127	(8)
Capital Budgeting for the Multinational Corporation	135	(10)
Financing Foreign Trade	145	(10)
Current Asset Management and Short-Term Financing	155	(14)
Managing the Multinational Financial System	169