International financial management

Discuss the reasons for the differences in the cost of capital across various counties. How is the cut off rate of foreign projects determined? Discuss.

Give me International financial management course detail offer by Harvard Business School.

Harvard Business School offer International financial management course and here is course detail:

Course Content and Organization:
Currencies and Asset Prices:
This module provides basic theories and fundamental tools that will be used in the rest of the course. What are the basic mechanics of exchange rates? What determines asset prices in global markets, and how do currencies influence stock prices?

Multinational Financial Decision Making:
This module considers several of the central financial decisions multinational firms must make concerning capital structure, risk management, and tax optimization. How should firms capitalize subsidiaries around the world? When should firms partner with local firms? How are firms exposed to exchange rates, and how should firms hedge those exposures? How do tax considerations factor into internal financial decision-making?

Cross-border Valuation and Financing:
This module covers how valuation techniques and financing decisions must be modified in a cross-border setting. How should firms think about the cost of capital around the world? How should investments in emerging markets be evaluated? How can firms capitalize on market imperfections in their financing and investment decisions?

Institutions and Finance:
This module considers how differing institutional arrangements, both formal and informal, impact financial decision-making. Professor Foley will focus on how differences in legal regimes, especially differences in the legal protection of creditors and shareholders, affect investment and restructuring decisions. Professor Jin will focus on investing in emerging markets using cases on M&A and PE transactions in China, with an emphasis on the importance of informal institutional arrangements and relationship building.

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I am student of Sikkim Manipal University - Distance Education doing International Financial Management degree. Will you provide SMU DE International Financial Management syllabus?

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International financial management, also known as international finance, is the management of finance in an international business environment; that is, trading and making money through the exchange of foreign currency

SMU DE International Financial Management syllabus:

Course Contents

Unit 1

International Financial Environment: ‘Globalization’, goals of International Financial Management.

Unit 2

Balance of Payments: concepts and principles of balance of payments and its various components. The Current Account Deficit and Surplus and Capital Account Convertibility.

Unit 3

Foreign Exchange Market: origin of the concept of foreign exchange, the difference between fixed and floating rates. Foreign exchange transactions and the derivatives instruments traded in foreign exchange market such as forwards, futures, swaps, and options.

Unit 4

Currency Derivatives: forward markets and the different concepts, currency futures markets and currency options markets and functions.

Unit 5

Exchange Rate Determination: Exchange rate movements, factors that influence exchange rates, movements in cross exchange rates, concepts of international arbitrage, interest rate parity, and purchasing power parity and the International Fisher effect.

Unit 6

International Financial Markets: basic concepts of the international money market. International credit markets (loans in various forms) from the creditors/investors.

Unit 7

Foreign Trade Finance: concept of foreign trade finance. concepts of financing exports and financing imports and documentary collections, factoring, forfeiting and countertrade

Unit 8

Nature and Measurement of Foreign Exchange Exposure: nature and measurement of foreign exchange exposure. Types of exposures and the various types of translation methods.

Unit 9

Management of Foreign Exchange Exposure: concept of exposure forward and foreign exchange exposure, various tools and techniques of foreign risk management and the risk management products.

Unit 10

International Capital Structure: international capital structure, cost of capital, the capital structure of MNCs, cost of capital in segmented versus integrated markets.

Unit 11

International Capital Budgeting: Introduction of international capital budgeting, adjusted present value model, capital budgeting from parent firm’s perspective and expecting the future expected exchange rate analysis

Unit 12

Country Risk Analysis: country risk factors, assessment of risk factors. Techniques through which the country risks can be assessed as well as measured.

Unit 13

International Taxation: international tax system, principles of taxation, double taxation, tax havens and transfer pricing. International tax management strategy and Indian tax environment.

Unit 14

Foreign Direct Investment, International Portfolio and Cross- Border Acquisitions: flow, cost and benefits of Foreign Direct Investment. ADR and GDR, concept of portfolio, cases on cross border acquisitions.

Contact:

Directorate of Distance Education
Sikkim Manipal University
SMIT Campus, Majitar, Rangpo, East Sikkim, India, 737136

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