Exercise1

One component of learning about another country or region is to understand the relationship of its currency with others on the world currency market. As such, you are assigned the duty of ensuring the availability of 1,000,000 yen for a payment scheduled for next month. Considering that your company possesses only US dollars, identify the spot and forward exchange rates. What are the factors that influence your decision to use each? Which one would you choose? How many dollars must you spend to acquire the amount of yen required?
Write a report ( 300 to 400 words in length). The report is to be written as professional report to a supervisor

Exercise2

Write 100 t0 150 words discussing how knowledge of purchasing power parity will effect a company’s decision to expand into a foreign country or not. Justify your response.

Exercise 3

The globalization of multinational corporations impacts the product and service choices available to customers. As such, several classifications and rankings of multinational corporations are prepared by a variety of sources. Find the Global 2000 rankings published by Forbes and identify the criteria used in evaluating top global companies. Extract the ranking of the top 20 companies, paying particular attention to the home countries, industries, and asset level represented. Based on the data gathered, what generalizations can you make?

Prepare a report (250 to 400 words in length). The report is to be written as professional report to a supervisor.