July 2023 Newsletter Summer FX Learning Sessions: Explore our July newsletter and discover the latest blog posts and insights from FX Initiative. We help finance, accounting, treasury, and sales professionals stay up to date with new training content, CPE webinars, and helpful tips & resources. Get started with our foreign exchange risk management training, which provides 24/7 365 access to our complete suite of foreign exchange (FX) continuing professional education (CPE), examples and events at FXCPE.com. Start Training > View Newsletter July 2, 2023By FX Initiative General accounting, business, collars, corporate, CPE, cross border, currency, derivatives, development, economics, education, ethics, expenses, finance, forex, forwards, fxcpe, fxinitiative, global, hedging, initiative, international, learning, management, options, payments, pricing, professional, rates, revenue, risk, trading, training, transactions, treasury 0 0 Comment
FX Pricing & Booking Best Practices FX Pricing & Booking Best Practices (Video): Explore how multinational corporations can retain and reduce FX risk by pricing and booking FX transactions strategically. This video is a preview of FX Initiative’s FX Risk Management course as part of Learning Objective #1. To learn more, start your FX risk management training today, which provides 24/7 365 access to our complete suite of foreign exchange (FX) continuing professional education (CPE), examples & events at FXCPE.com. Start FX Training May 16, 2023By FX Initiative FX Risk Management, General accounting, business, cashflows, cpe, cross border, currency, development, economics, education, events, examples, finance, fxcpe, fxinitiative, gains, global, hedging, initiative, international, learning, losses, management, payments, professional, risk, trading, training, transactions, treasury 0 0 Comment
Mastering FX Risk Management Webinar Program Overview FX Initiative cordially invites you to attend our webinar titled “Mastering Currency Risk Management”. Join us for a continuing professional education (CPE) program and earn CPE credit as we address the fundamental concepts of corporate foreign exchange (FX) risk management. This informational session will share best practices on how to identify, analyze, execute, and optimize a foreign exchange (FX) risk management program. Participants will learn how to assess a firm’s FX risk profile using a step-by-step analysis framework, the four approaches for managing FX risk, the impact FX risk has on the financial statements, and key terminology and takeaways for building a world class FX risk management program. Learning Objectives Discover how leading multinational corporations identify foreign exchange (FX) risk, including transaction, translation, and economic risk. Explore how to analyze FX risk management strategies, including balance sheet hedging, cash flow hedging, and net investment hedging. Identify key considerations when executing FX risk management plans, including the importance of strategy, policy and financial reporting. Recognize approaches to optimizing FX risk management plans by investing in personnel, resources, and operations to improve results. Who Should Attend? New and seasoned finance, accounting, treasury, and related professionals (CPA, CIA, CRMA, CFE, etc.) interested in international business. Register April 25, 2023By FX Initiative General, Webinar accounting, business, cashflows, corproation, corss-border, CPE, currency, derivatives, development, economics, education, events, examples, finance, fxcpe, fxinitiative, global, hedging, initiative, international, learning, management, multinational, payments, professional, risk, simulation, strategy, trading, training, transactions, treasury 0 0 Comment
White Label Web Applications FX Initiative's white label web applications are designed to help treasury professionals and FX sales teams with a wide variety of foreign exchange (FX) risk management challenges and opportunities. Whether you are creating a FX risk policy or analyzing economic and accounting scenarios, our risk models and strategy simulations share best practices in easily understandable formats. Examples include: FX Risk Policy FX Terms Glossary ISO Currency Codes Foreign Subsidiaries FX Revenues FX Expenses FX Receivables FX Payables FX Spot Transactions FX Forward Contracts FX Option Contracts FX Zero Cost Collars Our white label web applications are branded with the client's logo and embedded as an iframe into the client's website. An iframe is one of the most convenient HTML structures, and is an embedded window on the client’s web page that shows content hosted on FX Initiative’s servers. In 4 simple steps, our solutions can be deployed on the client's website quickly and easily with minimal technology resources. Learn More February 21, 2023By FX Initiative General, Partnerships accounting, business, cashflows, corporation, CPE, cross-border, currency, development, earnings, economics, education, events, examples, finance, fxcpe, fxinitiative, hedging, initiative, international, learning, management, multinational, professional, risk, trading, training, transactions, treasury 0 0 Comment
An Overview of FX Options An Overview of FX Options (Video): Explore the value drivers of foreign exchange (FX) put and call options, and recognize the payoff profile of option contracts. This video is a preview of FX Initiative’s FX Spot & Derivatives course as part of Learning Objective #2. To learn more, start your FX risk management training today, which provides 24/7 365 access to our complete suite of foreign exchange (FX) continuing professional education (CPE), examples & events at FXCPE.com. Start FX Training June 14, 2022By FX Initiative FX Derivative Speculator, FX Spot & Derivatives accounting, business, CPE, cross-border, currency, derivatives, development, economics, exchange, finance, foreign, forex, fxcpe, fxinitiative, global, hedging, international, management, payments, professional, risk, training, transactions, treasury 0 0 Comment
FX Pricing & Booking Best Practices FX Pricing & Booking Best Practices (Video): Explore how multinational corporations can retain and reduce FX risk by pricing and booking FX transactions strategically. This video is a preview of FX Initiative’s FX Risk Management course as part of Learning Objective #1. To learn more, start your FX risk management training today, which provides 24/7 365 access to our complete suite of foreign exchange (FX) continuing professional education (CPE), examples & events at FXCPE.com. Start FX Training May 17, 2022By FX Initiative FX Risk Management, General accounting, business, CPE, currency, derivatives, development, economics, education, events, examples, exchange, expense, finance, foreign, forex, fxcpe, fxinitiative, global, hedging, international, learning, management, payable, payments, professional, receivable, revenue, risk, trading, training, transactions, translation, treasury 0 0 Comment
Documenting FX Cash Flow Hedges Documenting FX Cash Flow Hedges (Video): Discover the details of FX cash flow hedge documentation and recognize how underlying exposures impact the financial statements. This video is a preview of FX Initiative’s Hedging FX Transactions course as part of Learning Objective #1. To learn more, start your FX risk management training today, which provides 24/7 365 access to our complete suite of foreign exchange (FX) continuing professional education (CPE), examples & events at FXCPE.com. Start FX Training November 19, 2019By FX Initiative Hedging FX Transactions #ASC815, #ASC830, #FAS133, #FAS52, accounting, cashflow, CPE, currency, derivatives, documentation, economics, education, expense, finance, forecasted, forex, forwards, FXCPE, fxinitiative, hedging, learning, management, revenue, risk, strategy, training, transactions, treasury 0 0 Comment
Tracking FX Transaction Types (Video) Tracking FX Transaction Types (Video): Explore the 4 kinds of FX transactions using Apple as an example. This video is a preview of FX Initiative’s FX Risk Exposures course as part of Learning Objective #1. To learn more, start your FX risk management training today, which provides 24/7 365 access to our complete suite of foreign exchange (FX) continuing professional education (CPE), examples & events at FXCPE.com. Start FX Training May 21, 2019By FX Initiative FX Risk Exposures, General Apple, CPE, currency, debt, derivative, education, equity, example, expense, forex, forward, fxcpe, fxinitiative, gain, hedge, iPhone, learning, loss, management, option, payable, receivable, revenue, risk, sales, traning, transactions 0 0 Comment
Identify The Top Two FX Hedge Objectives Ready to optimize your firm’s FX hedge objectives? FX Initiative’s Hedging FX Transactions course covers best practices employed by Fortune 500 companies and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for achieving the top two FX hedge objectives, illustrated in detail with real world economic and accounting examples. Get started with our foreign exchange risk management training, which provides 24/7 365 access to our complete suite of foreign exchange (FX) continuing professional education (CPE), examples and events at FXCPE.com. Start Training > Download the PDF February 26, 2019By FX Initiative FX Transaction Simulator, Hedging FX Transactions accounting, bestpractices, cashflow, cpe, credit, currency, debit, earnings, economics, education, EPS, expense, forward, fxcpe, fxinitiative, gain, goals, hedge, learning, loss, management, objectives, option, payable, receivable, revenue, risk, targets, training, transactions 0 0 Comment
How to Test FX Transactions & Hedge Strategies Ready to learn how to test FX transactions & hedge strategies? FX Initiative’s Foreign Exchange Transaction Simulator is a risk modeling tool that illustrates common FX exposures such as revenues, expenses, receivables and payables. The result is a detailed and interactive FX risk analysis that charts the economic payoff of a hedge strategy along with accounting journal entries and references to U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). This tool serves to simplify the risk analysis process for you so you can focus on the practical bottom line impact to your global business. Get started with our foreign exchange risk management training, which provides 24/7 365 access to our complete suite of foreign exchange (FX) continuing professional education (CPE), examples and events at FXCPE.com. Start Training > Download the PDF February 19, 2019By FX Initiative FX Transaction Simulator, General accounting, bestpractices, cpe, credit, currency, debit, economics, education, expense, forex, forward, fxcpe, fxinitiative, gain, hedge, learning, loss, management, option, payable, practice, professional, receivable, revenue, risk, simulate, stresstest, training, transactions, VaR 0 0 Comment