Part I. The international financial environment
1. Multinational financial management: an overview
2. International trade, measurement and theories
3. International financial markets and portfolio investment
4. Ethics
Part II. Exchange rate behaviour
5. Exchange rate changes
6. Exchange rate history and the role of governments
7. Forecasting exchange rates
8. International arbitrage and covered interest rate parity
9. Relationships between inflation, interest rates and exchange rates
Part III. Exchange rate risk management
10. Measuring exposure to exchange rate fluctuations
11. Market insurance: currency derivatives
12. Non-market methods of transaction management
13. Economic and translation exposure management
Part IV. Long-term asset and liability management
14. Foreign direct investment
15. Country risk analysis
16. Long-term financing
Part V. Short-term asset and liability management
17. Financing international trade
18. Short-term financing
19. International cash management
20. Concluding comments
Appendix A: Answers to self-test questions
Appendix B: Maths and statistics support
Online additional reading
1. Multinational restructuring
2. Multinational cost of capital and capital structure
3. Multinational capital budgeting
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Jeff Madura
Dr. Jeff Madura is Emeritus Professor of Finance at Florida Atlantic University. The recipient of multiple awards for excellence in teaching and research, Dr. Madura has written several successful finance textbooks. His research on financial markets and institutions has been published in numerous journals, including Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis; Journal of Money, Credit and Banking; Financial Management; Journal of Financial Research; and Financial Review. Dr. Madura has served as a consultant for commercial banks, securities firms, and numerous other financial institutions. In addition, he is a former director of the Eastern Finance Association and a former director and president of the Southern Finance Association.
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Roland Fox
Roland Fox graduated from Manchester University and joined PriceWaterhouseCoopers. He subsequently worked in insurance and for a multinational company, Invensys, before taking up a lecturing post. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in Finance at Salford University. He has published a number of papers on management accounting, finance and education.
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