Multinational Firm Chapter Objectives: Understand why it is important to study international finance.Distinguish international finance from domestic finance
Chapter Objective: This chapter serves to introduce the student to the balance of payments. How it is constructed and how balance of payments data may be interpreted
Chapter Objective: This chapter continues discussion of international capital markets with a discussion of the structure of the international bond market
Chapter Objective This chapter discusses currency and interest rateswaps, which are relatively new instruments forhedging long-term interest rate risk and foreignexchange risk
Chapter Objective: This chapter discusses various issues associated with foreign direct investments by MNCs, which play a key role in shaping the nature of the emerging global economy
Chapter objective This chapter discusses the impact that unanticipatedchanges in exchange rates may have on theconsolidated financial statements of the multinationalcompany