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• CPE Webinar Invite: Cash Flow Hedging

  Program Overview FX Initiative cordially invites you to attend our webinar titled “Cash Flow Hedging” on Thursday, March 25th at 11AM Pacific / 2PM Eastern. Join us for a continuing professional education (CPE) program and earn CPE credit as we learn how to how to hedge and account for forecasted foreign exchange (FX) revenues and expenses. We will begin by defining the concept of a cash flow hedge, and how companies incorporate this type of hedge into a larger FX risk management program across the enterprise. We will then examine how FX revenues and expenses impact the financial statements with a focus on the limited visibility into a transaction’s FX gain or loss to date. From there, we will explore hedging FX revenues and expenses with forward contracts, and address the impact on cash flows as well as the options that are available to account for derivative instruments and hedging activities. Lastly, we will identify best practices for hedging forecasted FX transactions and emphasize how public and private companies prioritize their foreign exchange hedging objectives in order to achieve their desired risk management results. Learning ...
• Attend the Net Investment Hedging webinar!

  You're invited to the Net Investment Hedging webinar! Thursday, November 15th | 2PM Eastern | 1 CPE Credit Program Overview Join us for a live webinar and learn how to hedge assets & equity in foreign subsidiaries operating abroad. This 1-hour session covers 4 key learning objectives: Discover the concept of a foreign exchange (FX) net investment hedge. Recognize the accounting and cash flow implications of hedging subsidiaries. Identify the top reasons why some corporations employ net investment hedges. Explore how forward contracts can be used to hedge equity in foreign operations. Who Should Attend New and seasoned finance, accounting, treasury, and related professionals (CPA, CIA, CRMA, CFE, etc.) interested in international business. Join Us
• 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 >   Download the PDF  
• 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: Discover the concept of a foreign exchange (FX) balance sheet hedge program. Recognize how FX receivables and payables impact the financial statements. Explore how forward contracts can be used to mitigate FX gains and losses. 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. Join Us
• 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  
• 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 ...