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Clarifying Currency Quoting Conventions (Video)

Clarifying Currency Quoting Conventions (Video): Distinguish the difference between direct and indirect currency quotations. This video is a preview of FX Initiative’s FX Market Overview 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.

 

May 2019 Newsletter

 
 
 

May 2019 Newsletter

 
Learn How To Manage FX Risk
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Featured Course

The FX Market Overview course explores the concepts of economic globalization and international trade, examines the evolution and operations of the foreign exchange (FX) market, and demonstrates how supply and demand impact FX rates and forecasting.

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Featured Resource

The FX Terms Glossary defines key terms related to FX risk management. This online dictionary is designed to clarify the FX conversation, and helps you develop a working vocabulary of important and frequently encountered concepts concerning foreign currency.

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Featured Webinar

The FX Risk Management webinar focuses on the fundamentals of corporate FX risk management, explores how leading multinational firms prioritize and manage the 3 types of FX risks, and demonstrates best practices for assessing your company’s FX risk profile.

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FX Risk Policy Best Practices

Discover FX risk policy best practices! FX Initiative’s FX Risk Policy webinar covers best practices for drafting a FX risk management policy, including strategies for pricing and booking FX transactions that enable a corporation to control FX risk, and how personnel, resources and operations are incorporated into a policy framework to reduce the impact of unpredictable changes in FX rates. 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 >

 

 

FX Net Investment Hedging Nuances

Would you like to know the nuances of FX net investment hedging? FX Initiative’s FX Net Investment Hedging webinar explores how multinational corporations can hedge assets and equity in foreign subsidiaries, and demonstrates the importance of formally designating derivatives as net investment hedges for accounting purposes to benefit from reporting FX gains and losses in equity on the balance sheet. 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 >

 

 

FX Risk Management In Focus

Would you like to take a focused look at FX risk management practices? FX Initiative’s FX Risk Management webinar focuses on the fundamentals of corporate FX risk management, and explores how leading multinational firms prioritize and manage the 3 types of FX risks. Upon completion of this program, participants will learn how to assess their organization’s FX risk profile and prioritize strategies using a structured analysis framework. 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 >

 

 

FX Forward Contract Fundamentals

Would you like to learn the fundamentals of FX forward contracts? FX Initiative’s FX Forward Contracts webinar covers long and short FX positions, forward point premiums and discounts, and the payoff profile of a forward contract using real world examples that show the economic impact on cash flows and accounting entries in the financial statements. 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 >

 

 

Cash Flow Hedge Considerations

Are you curious about “cash flow” hedge considerations? FX Initiative’s Cash Flow Hedging webinar covers corporate best practices and case studies on hedging forecasted FX transactions, and walks you through pros and cons public and private companies can consider when deciding whether or not to elect “cash flow” hedge accounting treatment. 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 >

 

 

Learn FX Balance Sheet Hedging Basics

Would you like to learn FX balance sheet hedging basics? FX Initiative’s Balance Sheet Hedging webinar walks you through common FX asset, liability and equity accounts on the balance sheet, the mark-to-market or fair value accounting process and the ways firms can minimize the income statement impact of fluctuating FX rates using derivatives. Upon completion of this program, Fortune 500 companies and small or medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) alike will learn best practices for optimizing and adjusting balance sheet hedges that can help mitigate the impact of fluctuating FX rates and stabilize periodic reported earnings. 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 >

 

 

Practice Pricing FX Derivatives

Would you like to practice pricing FX derivatives? The FX Derivative Speculator is a risk modeling tool you can use to compare and contrast pricing variables and payoff profiles of FX derivatives to analyze the economic impact on cash flows and the financial reporting implications under virtually any FX rate scenario. This customizable and interactive web application quickly and easily demonstrates how higher and lower interest rates determine the forward rate, how the upfront premium of an option is priced and accounted for, and how a zero cost collar blends characteristics of forwards and options. 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 >

 

 

FX Strategies for Foreign Subsidiaries

Would you like to optimize FX strategies for foreign subsidiaries? FX Initiative’s Hedging Foreign Subsidiaries course outlines the fundamentals of hedging net income and net investment exposures in foreign subsidiaries, and reveals the cash flow and financial reporting implications of hedging FX translation risk with currency derivatives. 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 >

 

 

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