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Actionable insights on foreign exchange risk management from FX Initiative.

Explore How To Forecast FX Rates

Want to explore how to forecast FX rates? FX Initiative’s FX Market Overview course provides proven best practices and real world examples to help you forecast future exchange rate movements in the $5+ trillion daily FX market, the largest and most liquid market in the world. 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 >

 

 

Find Out 4 Ways Firms Manage FX Risk

Do you want to find out how firms manage FX risk? FX Initiative’s FX Risk Management course will teach you how to retain and reduce FX risk when conducting business internationally. 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 Where to Look for FX Risk

Ready to learn where to look for FX risk? 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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FX Initiative: Your FX Risk Management Formula [𝑓𝑥+𝐶𝑃𝐸=𝑓𝑥𝐶𝑃𝐸.𝑐𝑜𝑚]

Are your finance, accounting and treasury teams ready to manage foreign exchange (FX) risk in 2019? Whether you are new to foreign exchange or a seasoned professional, follow FX Initiative for your FX risk management formula to optimize an actionable plan for managing currency risk.

FX Initiative is a leading provider of FX risk management training to finance, accounting and treasury professionals through educational videos, online tools, and webinar topics that are eligible for continuing professional education (CPE) credit and offered on-demand anytime and anywhere at FXCPE.com. Our training approach starts by identifying knowledge gaps using our Pre-Test Evaluation, and then closing those knowledge gaps with our on-demand educational videosreal-world examples, and live and recorded webinar events to create a comprehensive curriculum on currency risk management.

The organizations FX Initiative works with recognize the value of investing in training that enables employees to excel at their job responsibilities, and apply their professional development and knowledge for the benefit of the firm. We teach best practices for reducing FX gains and losses, preserving cash flows, and optimizing FX risk management strategies for revenues, expenses, receivables, payables, assets, liabilities, and equity. The benefit to the bottom line and increased understanding and communication of FX challenges and solutions is brought about through the following four essential stages of learning:

First, we ask challenging and critical questions global firms face, such as:

  • How to manage currency risk?
  • How to draft a FX risk policy?
  • Where to look for FX risk exposures?
  • What currency risks to hedge and how?
  • Which strategies meet FX hedge objectives?
  • What is the economic and accounting impact?

Second, we answer those questions in our CPE video courses, which include:

  1. FX Market Overview
  2. FX Risk Exposures
  3. FX Risk Management
  4. FX Spot & Derivatives
  5. Hedging FX Transactions
  6. Hedging Foreign Subsidiaries

Third, we reinforce concepts with CPE exams and interactive examples using our:

Fourth, we present hands-on practical CPE webinars that cover the following topics:

  1. FX Risk Management
  2. FX Risk Policy
  3. FX Forward Contracts
  4. Balance Sheet Hedging
  5. Cash Flow Hedging
  6. Net Investment Hedging

Our approach ensures that topics are not only addressed in detail, but reinforced and practiced, enhancing confidence in your ability to implement and expand on your newly improved skills. All training content is available 24/7 365 to help you anytime and anywhere with FX risk policies, FX accounting, FX hedging strategies, and everything FX risk management related.  FX Initiative serves as a trusted partner and FX risk management resource to finance, accounting and treasury professionals with the goal of increasing collaboration and profitability.

Are you ready to manage FX risk?  Become a FX Initiative subscriber today to access our complete suite of foreign exchange (FX) continuing professional education (CPE), examples and events at FXCPE.com. Managing FX risk is a high priority for many firms in 2019, and it is now easier than ever to learn the fundamentals of currency risk management. You can reduce FX risk and reap rewards abroad by taking the FX Initiative for your international business today!

Click here to subscribe >

Cheers to your continued success in the new year,

The FX Initiative Team
support@fxinitiative.com

Attend the Cash Flow Hedging webinar!

You're invited to the

Cash Flow Hedging webinar!

Thursday, October 18th | 2PM Eastern | 1 CPE Credit

Program Overview
Join us for a live webinar and learn how to hedge and account for forecasted FX revenues & expenses. This 1-hour session covers 4 key learning objectives:

  1. Discover the concept of a foreign exchange (FX) cash flow hedge.
  2. Explore how FX revenues and expenses impact the financial statements.
  3. Recognize the cash flow and accounting implications of cash flow hedges.
  4. Identify corporate best practices for hedging forecasted FX transactions.

Who Should Attend
New and seasoned finance, accounting, treasury, and related professionals (CPA, CIA, CRMA, CFE, etc.) interested in international business.

Attend the Balance Sheet Hedging webinar!

You're invited to the

Balance Sheet Hedging webinar!

Thursday, September, 20th | 2PM Eastern | 1 CPE Credit

Program Overview
Join us for a live webinar and learn how to hedge FX receivables & payables and mitigate FX gains & losses. This 1-hour session covers 4 key learning objectives:

  1. Discover the concept of a foreign exchange (FX) balance sheet hedge program.
  2. Recognize how FX receivables and payables impact the financial statements.
  3. Explore how forward contracts can be used to mitigate FX gains and losses.
  4. Identify best practices for optimizing and adjusting balance sheet hedges.

Who Should Attend
New and seasoned finance, accounting, treasury, and related professionals (CPA, CIA, CRMA, CFE, etc.) interested in international business.

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Explore the powerful impact of professional development

Professional development in the workplace often refers to required employee training in areas such as workplace safety, corporate policies, and industry specific rules and regulations. While this training is commonplace in the corporate setting, it rarely provides value add to the employee or organization in terms of job performance and customer success.

FX Initiative's approach to professional development focuses on the employee first, and makes results personal and meaningful. We start by identifying knowledge gaps using our Pre-Test Evaluation, then we close those knowledge gaps with our on-demand educational videos, and we reinforce our learning concepts using real-world examples.

Professionals tasked with foreign exchange risk management often know their goals and objectives, but struggle with how to achieve them due to lack of training. Without dedicating time to the learning process and practicing what you've learned, it seems unrealistic to expect positive bottom line results and achievement of plans.

The organizations FX Initiative works with recognize that investing in quality training that directly relates to employee job responsibilities benefits both the employee and the bottom line. Not only are employees more knowledgeable and capable after completing our training, but they are able to apply their knowledge for the benefit of their customers and the firm.

FX training is a win-win outcome. FX sales teams are able to have deeper conversations with clients, gain a better understanding of problems and available solutions, and secure long-term relationships that are mutually beneficial to both parties. Treasury professionals are able to significantly reduce FX gains and losses, preserve cash flows from FX transactions, and articulate their results more clearly and confidently to senior management.

FX Initiative's Currency Risk Management Training provides an actionable and valuable plan for learning foreign exchange that helps FX sales teams collaborate more effectively with treasury professionals. FX service providers and global firms can take full advantage of our unique training opportunity by proactively investing in their employees and organizations. Professional development is no longer something to simply check off the list, it is now a necessity for global companies and their employees to remain competitive and profitable.

Ready to invest in professional development for your organization? Click here to take the FX Initiative!

Cheers,

The FX Initiative Team
support@fxinitiative.com

You're invited to the FX Forward Contracts webinar!

You're invited to the

FX Forward Contracts webinar!

Thursday, June 21st | 2PM Eastern | 1 CPE Credit

Program Overview
Join us for a live webinar and learn what forward contracts are and why they are the most used derivative. This 1-hour session covers 4 key learning objectives:

  1. Discover the concept of over-the-counter (OTC) foreign currency derivatives.
  2. Identify what forward contracts are and how forward points are calculated.
  3. Recognize the payoff profile, economics and accounting of forward contracts.
  4. Explore why forward contracts are the most used FX derivative by corporations.

Who Should Attend
New and seasoned finance, accounting, treasury, and related professionals (CPA, CIA, CRMA, CFE, etc.) interested in international business.

Attend the FX Risk Management webinar!

 
Program Overview

This FX Risk Management webinar will address the fundamentals of corporate foreign exchange (FX) risk management. We begin with an overview of how leading multinational corporations manage foreign exchange risk. We will then address how FX risk impacts a corporation’s financial statements, including the Income Statement and Balance Sheet, and we will also highlight common disclosures found in annual reports (10-K). Furthermore, we’ll examine key terminology related to FX risk management, and define terms such as FX transaction, translation and economic risk. Finally, we will look at the essential elements of a world class corporate FX risk management program, with a focus on personnel, operations, resources, and policy. The goal of this program is to help global corporations understand the importance of FX risk management and how to assess their foreign exchange risk profile using a structured analysis framework.

Learning Objectives
  • Discover how leading multinational corporations manage foreign exchange (FX) risk.
    Explore FX risks on the Income Statement, Balance Sheet, and in annual reports (10-K).
    Recognize common FX terminology such as transaction, translation and economic risk.
    Identify essential elements of a world class corporate FX risk management program.
     
    Who Should Attend?

    New and seasoned finance, accounting, treasury, and related professionals (CPA, CIA, CRMA, CFE, etc.) interested in international business.

We look forward to your participation in this live program on Thursday, April 26 2018. Simply click here to register for the presentation!

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