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Chapter 17
Foreign Exchange Risk
Identification and
Management
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Learning Objectives
• Identify the different types of foreign
exchange (FX) risk faced by firms
• Understand how firms can manage their
foreign exchange risk using market-based
or internal hedging techniques
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Chapter Organisation
17.1 Introduction
17.2 FX Risk Policy formation
17.3 Measuring Transaction Exposure
17.4 Risk Management: Market-based
Hedging Techniques
17.5 Risk Management: Internal
Hedging Techniques
17.6 Summary
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17.1 Introduction
• Foreign exchange risk exposures can be
classified in terms of the impact on a firm’s
cash flows, balance sheet, competitive
position and value
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Transaction exposure
Translation or accounting exposure
Operational exposure
Economic exposure
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17.1 Introduction (cont.)
• Transaction exposure
– The risk that future foreign currency
denominated cash flows will vary due to
exchange rate movements
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E.g. a contract to import goods from the USA
denominated in USD
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17.1 Introduction (cont.)
• Translation or accounting exposure
– The risk that conversion and consolidation of
foreign currency assets or liabilities will
adversely impact the balance sheet
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E.g. a firm accumulates assets and liabilities overseas
and at a future date translates their value onto its
consolidated balance sheet
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17.1 Introduction (cont.)
• Operational exposure
– The risk that day-to-day operating revenues and
expenses will be affected by FX movements

E.g. foreign subsidiary operating expenses paid in the
currency of the foreign country but sourced in another
country i.e. the parent company
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17.1 Introduction (cont.)
• Economic exposure
– The effect of exchange rate movements on the
ongoing business operations of a firm (i.e. the
net present value of its future cash flows)

It includes both transaction exposures and operating
FX exposures and extends further to recognise the
impact of FX risk on the value of a firm
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Chapter Organisation
17.1
17.2
17.3
17.4
Introduction
FX Risk Policy Formation
Measuring Transaction Exposure
Risk Management: Market-based
Hedging Techniques
17.5 Risk Management: Internal
Hedging Techniques
17.6 Summary
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17.2 FX Risk Policy Formation
• A company’s board of directors should
document and circulate specific policies on
FX risk management including
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FX objectives
Management structure
Authorisations
Exposure reporting systems
Communications
Performance evaluation
Audit and review procedures
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17.2 FX Risk Policy Formation
(cont.)
• FX objectives
– Consideration of what the company intends to
achieve and how it will achieve it by specifying
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The products and services that can be used to mange
FX risk exposures e.g. natural hedges
The style of risk management e.g. active or defensive
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17.2 FX Risk Policy Formation
(cont.)
• Management structure
– Ensure appropriate organisational controls and
reporting systems, skilled personnel and
sufficient funding are in place
• Authorisations
– A description of who, in the organisation, has
the authority to do what, ensuring task
segregation
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17.2 FX Risk Policy Formation
(cont.)
• Exposure reporting systems
– Determine which reports are required, how
frequently they are required and who is
responsible to act on them
• Communications
– How communication should occur both
horizontally and vertically within the Treasury
division and the overall organisation
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17.2 FX Risk Policy Formation
(cont.)
• Performance evaluation
– Evaluation of the performance of the FX
operations, given the FX objectives
• Audit and review procedures
– A regular and structured process of carrying out
internal and external audits of FX operations,
including current objectives, policies and
procedures, with appropriate lines of reporting
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Chapter Organisation
17.1
17.2
17.3
17.4
Introduction
FX Risk Policy Formation
Measuring Transaction Exposure
Risk Management: Market-based
Hedging Techniques
17.5 Risk Management: Internal
Hedging Techniques
17.6 Summary
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17.3 Measuring Transaction
Exposure
• This is the risk faced by Australian firms
that the AUD will change between the time
an order is placed and the time of its
payment
• This risk is caused by the uncertainty as to
the exact value of the transaction
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17.3 Measuring Transaction
Exposure (cont.)
• Transaction exposure risk has two
directional components
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Downside exposure
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Amount received (paid) in the future is less (more)
than the current projected amount
Upside exposure
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Amount received (paid) in the future is more (less)
than the current projected amount
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17.3 Measuring Transaction
Exposure (cont.)
• Transaction exposure has two elements
– Net cash flows
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Collate all receivables and payables in each currency
to determine net exposure
Risk associated with transaction exposure
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Currency variability
Currency correlations
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17.3 Measuring Transaction
Exposure (cont.)
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17.3 Measuring Transaction
Exposure (cont.)
• Net cash flows (cont.)
– It is evident from Table 17.1 that the
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Company has a natural hedge
•
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i.e. matching transactions have been used to offset a
potential risk exposure
Net FX exposure is zero
Company had a perfect hedge because its receivables
and payables were identical in size, currency and time
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17.3 Measuring Transaction
Exposure (cont.)
• Transaction exposures: currency variability
– Having determined the net FX exposure in each
currency, the next step is to assess the extent of
the risk (variability) of each exposure
– Currency variability relates to the probability of
the spot rate changing between contract date
and payment date
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17.3 Measuring Transaction
Exposure (cont.)
• Transaction exposures: currency variability
(cont.)
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Often measured by standard deviation
May need to examine trend in currency standard
deviation over time as in Table 17.2, which
illustrates
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Standard deviations vary between currencies in the
same period
Standard deviations vary over time
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17.3 Measuring Transaction
Exposure (cont.)
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17.3 Measuring Transaction
Exposure (cont.)
• Transaction exposure: currency correlations
– In considering whether to hedge a FX exposure,
the correlations between the currencies should
be considered
– Correlation measures the degree to which two
currencies move in relation to each other
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17.3 Measuring Transaction
Exposure (cont.)
• Transaction exposure: currency correlations
(cont.)
Ranges from + 1 (perfectly positively correlated) to
– 1 (perfectly negatively correlated)
– Figure 17.2 indicates
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Currencies A and B are highly positively correlated
Currency C is highly negatively correlated with both
currencies A and B
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17.3 Measuring Transaction
Exposure (cont.)
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17.3 Measuring Transaction
Exposure (cont.)
• Transaction exposure: currency correlations
(cont.)
–
Table 17.3 is used to demonstrate the use of
correlation coefficients in assessing whether a
FX exposure requires hedging
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Date t+6
•
A change in the AUD will result in a similar change in
both inflows and outflows which offset each other
– A natural hedge exists
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17.3 Measuring Transaction
Exposure (cont.)
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17.3 Measuring Transaction
Exposure (cont.)
• Transaction exposure: currency correlations
(cont.)
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Date t+8
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A change in the AUD will result in either a gain or a loss
on both flows
– The exposure should be hedged
Date t+9
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A change in the AUD will result in either a gain or loss
on both flows
– The exposure should be hedged
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17.3 Measuring Transaction
Exposure (cont.)
• Transaction exposure: currency correlations
(cont.)
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Date t+11
•
A change in the AUD will result in a similar change in
both inflows and outflows which offset each other
– A natural hedge exists
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Chapter Organisation
17.1
17.2
17.3
17.4
Introduction
FX Risk Policy Formation
Measuring Transaction Exposure
Risk Management: Market-based
Hedging Techniques
17.5 Risk Management: Internal
Hedging Techniques
17.6 Summary
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17.4 Risk Management:
Market-based Hedging
Techniques
• A firm may attempt to minimise FX risk
(particularly downside exposure) through the use
of hedging techniques/instruments
• Hedging instruments include
– Forward exchange contracts
– Money market hedge
– Futures, options and swaps (discussed in
Chapters 18, 19 and 20 respectively)
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17.4 Risk Management:
Market-based Hedging
Techniques (cont.)
• Forward exchange contracts
– Lock in an exchange rate today for delivery or
receipt of a foreign currency at a specified
future date
– Table 17.4 provides an example of the use of a
forward exchange contract to hedge a US$1
million receivable in 6-months’ time
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17.4 Risk Management:
Market-based Hedging
Techniques (cont.)
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17.4 Risk Management:
Market-based Hedging
Techniques (cont.)
• Money market hedging to cover FX risk
Also called BSI hedge
– Example
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A company has US$1 million receivable in 6-months’
time
Money market hedging involves
•
•
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STEP I: Borrow USD today
STEP II: Spot convert USD to AUD
STEP III: Invest the AUD today
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17.4 Risk Management:
Market-based Hedging
Techniques (cont.)
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Chapter Organisation
17.1
17.2
17.3
17.4
Introduction
FX Risk Policy Formation
Measuring Transaction Exposure
Risk Management: Market-based
Hedging Techniques
17.5 Risk Management: Internal
Hedging Techniques
17.6 Summary
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17.5 Risk management: Internal
Hedging Techniques
• Internal hedging minimises FX exposures and the
need to use market-based hedging techniques
• Main internal hedging techniques
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Invoicing in the home currency
Creating a natural hedge
Currency diversification
Leading and lagging FX transactions
Mark-ups
Counter-trades and currency offsets
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Main internal hedging techniques
• Invoicing in the home currency
– Avoids FX exposure
– Effectively transfers all FX risk to the other party
in the business transaction
– The other party may charge a higher price to
compensate for the extra risk
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Main internal hedging techniques
(cont.)
• Creating a natural hedge
– Match foreign currency receivables and payables
in terms of currency, timing and magnitude
– Unlikely that an exact hedge can be achieved
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Main internal hedging techniques
(cont.)
• Currency diversification
Limit impact of adverse exchange rate movements
by spreading transactions over a large number of
currencies
– Chance of adverse movements in a large number of
currencies is very small
– Greatest diversification achieved where currencies
are perfectly negatively correlated
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Main internal hedging techniques
(cont.)
• Leading and lagging FX transactions
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Leading: changing the timing of a cash flow so that it
takes place prior to the originally agreed date
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Lagging: delaying the timing of an existing FX cash flow
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E.g. pay a USD payable before an expected AUD
depreciation
E.g. delaying a USD payable to coincide with a USD
receivable
Need to assess costs/impact of strategies
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Main internal hedging techniques
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• Mark-ups
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Increasing prices on exports or imports to cover
worst-case scenario changes in an exchange rate
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E.g. exporter marks-up export price of goods sold
E.g. importer marks-up the domestic price of imported
goods
Competition is a constraint to this strategy
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Main internal hedging techniques
(cont.)
• Counter-trade and currency offsets
The exchange of product for product, rather then
currency-based buy or sell contracts
– Limited to companies wishing to exchange products
of equal value and at the same time
– Applicable to both internal cash flows of a firm and
FX cash flows between firms
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Chapter Organisation
17.1
17.2
17.3
17.4
Introduction
FX Risk Policy Formation
Measuring Transaction Exposure
Risk Management: Market-based
Hedging Techniques
17.5 Risk Management: Internal
Hedging Techniques
17.6 Summary
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17.6 Summary
• Foreign exchange risk exposures can be
classified as
Transaction exposure
– Translation or accounting exposure
– Operational exposure
– Economic exposure
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17.6 Summary (cont.)
• FX risk policy formulation involves a number
of aspects necessary to measure and
manage FX risk including
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FX objectives, authorisations, exposure
reporting systems, communications,
performance evaluation, audit and review
procedures
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17.6 Summary (cont.)
• Transaction exposures can be measured by
– Net cash flows
– Currency variability
– Currency correlations
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17.6 Summary (cont.)
• Risk management techniques include
– Market-based hedging: forward exchange
contracts and money market hedging
– Internal hedging: invoicing in home currency,
natural hedge, currency diversification, leading
and lagging FX transactions, mark-ups, countertrade and currency offsets
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