January 2024 Newsletter New Year Knowledge: Read our January newsletter and discover the latest blog posts and insights from FX Initiative on currency risk management. We help finance, accounting, treasury, and sales professionals stay up to date with new training content, CPE webinars, and helpful tips & resources. Scale the learning curve quickly and easily 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 January 2, 2024By FX Initiative General accounting, business, CPE, cross border, currency, derivatives, development, economics, education, events, examples, finance, financial reporting, fxcpe, fxinitiative, global, hedging, initiative, international, learning, management, operations, payments, professional, risk, training, transactions, treasury 0 0 Comment
Happy New Year from FX Initiative! Happy New Year from FX Initiative! FX Initiative is thankful for your support throughout 2023, and we wish you a safe and successful 2024! December 26, 2023By FX Initiative General accounting, business, cashflows, CPE, currency, derivatives, development, earnings, economics, education, evevnts, examples, FASB, finance, fxcpe, fxinitiative, global, hedging, IASB, initiative, international, learning, managment, payments, professional, risk, trading, training, treasury 0 0 Comment
FX Initiative Year End Feedback FX Initiative End-of-Year Feedback: Help us enhance your experience using FX Initiative in 2024 and beyond! Thank you for supporting our mission throughout 2023 to teach FX risk management best practices. Please share what you like about our FX training and how we can do better. Take our short survey here: https://www.fxcpe.com/feedback > Start Survey December 19, 2023By FX Initiative General accounting, business, CPE, cross border, currency, derivatives, development, education, events, examples, finance, forex, fxcpe, fxinitiative, global, hedging, initiative, international, learning, management, operations, payments, professional, risk, trading, training, transactions, treasury, webinars 0 0 Comment
Recognizing FX Revenues & Receivables Recognizing FX Revenues & Receivables (Video): Explore the economic and accounting similarities and differences between forecasted and booked foreign exchange (FX) transactions using the FX Transaction Simulator tool. 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 28, 2023By FX Initiative FX Risk Exposures, FX Transaction Simulator accounting, business, cashflows, corporate, CPE, currency, development, economics, education, events, examples, FASB, finance, forex, fxcpe, fxinitiative, global, hedging, IASB, initiative, international, learning, management, multinational, payments, professional, risk, SEC, trading, training, treasury 0 0 Comment
Sharing Feedback & Suggestions (Survey) FX Initiative remains committed to continuously enhancing our foreign exchange (FX) risk management training. To support learning in both in-person meetings and online environments, we are working on improving our suite of FX topics and tools to better serve your currency risk management needs safely and remotely. We are listening closely to our audience of finance, accounting, and treasury professionals with the goal of providing innovative FX risk management training and tools. Help us improve by sharing your feedback regarding what you like about our FX training and how we can do better. Take our short survey: https://www.fxcpe.com/feedback > October 24, 2023By FX Initiative General accounting, business, cashflows, conferences, CPE, currency, development, economics, education, events, examples, expansion, finance, forex, FXCPE, fxinitiative, global, growth, hedging, initiative, international, learning, management, multinational, payments, professional, risk, trading, training, treasury, webinars 0 0 Comment
Hypothetical FX Hedging Simulations To become proficient in any skill, including currency risk management, practice makes perfect. To help companies practice, FX Initiative’s Foreign Exchange Transaction Simulator addresses a wide variety of FX scenarios by stress-testing hypothetical FX hedging strategies. This interactive risk modeling tool illustrates the economics and accounting of the most common hedging strategies for underlying foreign exchange exposures such as revenues, expenses, receivables, and payables. You can simply input your company specific and foreign exchange market variables, and then select your hedging strategy, which includes not hedging or hedging with a forward contract, vanilla option or zero cost collar. The resulting output is a highly detailed interactive FX risk analysis that charts the economic payoff of your selected hedging strategy, ranks the alternative hedging strategies, and reports the accounting journal entries and t-accounts with authoritative references to U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). Behind the scenes, our robust pricing engine and database simplifies the risk analysis process for you so you can focus on the bottom line impact to your business. This versatile tool transforms 16 inputs into one information rich analysis in 3 easy steps. Step 1 is to select (1) the Underlying Exposure and input the related variables of (2) Functional Currency, (3) Foreign Currency, (4) Underlying Notional Amount, (5) Beginning Exchange Rate, (6) Currency Quoting Convention, (7) Start Date, (8) End Date and (9) the Day Count. Step 2 is to select a (10) Hedging Strategy and input the related variables of (11) Hedge Ratio %, (12) Domestic Interest Rate, (13) Foreign Interest Rate, (14) Implied Volatility, and (15) the Collar Range. Step 3 is to forecast (16) the ending exchange rate to see how positive and negative changes in exchange rates impact the cash flow and financial reporting of your selected hedging strategy. This FX risk management web application customizes strategies and can be modified efficiently and effectively. For example, if you want to change your underlying exposure or hedge strategy, it’s as simple as one-click. If you want to know which strategy yields the best outcome, all 4 strategies are ranked for you automatically. If you want to see how the default or elective accounting treatment differ, the journal entries and t-accounts are instantly presented side-by-side. This Foreign Exchange Transaction Simulator acts as your own personal quantitative analyst, and puts you in a positions to make a qualified foreign exchange risk management decisions. To begin practicing hypothetical FX hedging, 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 Risk Management Training > October 17, 2023By FX Initiative FX Transaction Simulator, General accounting, business, cpe, currency, development, education, events, examples, finance, fxcpe, fxinitiative, global, initiative, international, learning, management, payments, professional, risk, training, treasury 0 0 Comment
October 2023 Newsletter Fall FX Training & Tips: Explore our October newsletter and discover the latest blog posts and insights from FX Initiative on currency risk management. We help finance, accounting, treasury, and sales professionals stay up to date with new training content, CPE webinars, and helpful tips & resources. Scale the learning curve quickly and easily 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 October 3, 2023By FX Initiative General accounting, business, CPE, currency, derivatives, development, economics, education, events, examples, finance, forwards, fxcpe, fxinitiative, global, hedging, initiative, international, learning, management, options, payments, professional, risk, trading, training, treasury 0 0 Comment
White Label FX 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 September 26, 2023By FX Initiative General, Partnerships accounting, applications, ASC, BIS, branding, business, collars, corporation, CPE, currency, derivatives, development, education, events, examples, FASB, finance, forex, forwards, fxcpe, fxinitiative, GAAP, hedging, IASB, initiative, international, ISO, learning, management, multinational, options, partnerships, professional, risk, training, treasury, white label, WTO 0 0 Comment
FX Global Code Compliance Complying with the FX Global Code: The FX Global Code explains the set of global principles of good practice in the foreign exchange (FX) market, and was introduced by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Markets Committee in May 2017. To date, over 500 market participants have signed Statements of Commitment to the FX Global Code. The FX Global Code aligns with the foreign exchange (FX) risk management best practices FX Initiative teaches to FX market participants, including FX sales teams and treasury professionals. The goal of the FX Global Code is to promote fairness in FX trading, and FX Initiative encourages our audience to learn about and benefit from the code. Download the FX Global Code PDF Ready to learn more about FX risk management best practices? 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 September 19, 2023By FX Initiative General, Partnerships business, CPE, currency, derivatives, development, education, events, examples, forex, FXCPE, fxinitiative, global, hedging, initiative, international, learning, management, payments, professional, risk, training, 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 September 12, 2023By FX Initiative General, Webinar accounting, business, coporation, CPE, currency, development, economics, education, events, examples, finance, FXCPE, FXInitiative, global, hedging, initiative, international, learning, management, payments, professional, risk, trading, training, treasury 0 0 Comment