This master thesis discusses the field of foreign exchange risk management and assesses efficiency of this type of risk management within FFastFill plc. The thesis contains two major parts. The first part, which contains the first and the second chapter, focuses on theoretical characteristics of foreign exchange market and sequentially defines the terms of foreign exchange exposure and foreign exchange risk. This part of thesis discusses hedging strategies and matters that are related to the selection of optimal hedging strategy. The second part of thesis contains the third and the fourth chapter. This part analyses the company from various perspectives and consequently analyses and quantifies the magnitude of company's translation and transaction exposure. The aim of this analysis is to assess company's current hedging strategy and to propose the optimal hedging strategy.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T18:40:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Anderson Tanaka.pdf: 1073243 bytes, checksum: 67da2f0e3298c14c92c8fc047d5cec5c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-05-31 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / It is essential for the importers to think about the exchange variation when importing goods for the local trading. The use of derivatives is one way for the importers to protect themselves from these exchange variations. Derivatives are financial instruments used by companies in order to manage the risks over the fluctuation of exchange variations, as well as the interest rates and the price changes. The lack of knowledge for the use of these protection instruments leads the companies to have losses with the exchange variation. The accounting treatment for the use of derivatives is a subject which has recently been developing with the harmonization of the international financial reporting standards, the IFRS. This case studies a mediumsized importing company, in the shoes trading segment which does not apply any kind of derivative. Impacts on these derivatives operations, which can generate great losses when they are not used in a correct manner, is shown. The exchange losses are derived when the company opts for the free exchange by the moment of importing its stocks, once having a negative variation, leads the company to record these losses in its financial statements. Thus, the best protection strategies and internal controls the Company should adopt using the rules of IASB (International Accounting Standards Board), is shown. The IASB and Brazilian Committee on Accounting Pronouncements, ( CPC ) principles of recognition, measurement and derivatives accounting has presented, being emphasized the hedge accounting instruments, the internal controls necessary for the financial instruments control and management and the tax effects on exchange variations and Transfer Pricing using the hedge instruments / Pensar na variação cambial é um ponto indispensável aos importadores quando se trata de importar mercadorias para a comercialização local. Uma forma dos importadores se protegerem dessas oscilações cambiais é a utilização de derivativos. Os derivativos são instrumentos financeiros utilizados pelas empresas para gerenciar os riscos sobre as oscilações das variações cambiais, assim como as taxas de juros e as mudanças de preços. A falta de conhecimento para o uso desses instrumentos de proteção leva as empresas a terem prejuízos com a variação cambial. O tratamento contábil para o uso dos derivativos é um assunto que vem se desenvolvendo recentemente com a harmonização das práticas contábeis internacionais, o IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards). Este estudo de caso aborda uma empresa importadora, de médio porte, no segmento de comércio calçadista que não adota nenhum tipo de derivativo. São demonstrados os impactos dessas operações de derivativos que podem vir a gerar grandes prejuízos quando não forem utilizados de forma correta. Os prejuízos cambiais ocorrem quando a empresa opta pelo câmbio livre no momento de importar seus estoques, que tendo uma variação negativa, leva a empresa a registrar perdas nas suas demonstrações financeiras. Dessa forma são demonstradas quais estratégias de proteção e controles internos a empresa importadora deveria adotar utilizando-se os conceitos das normas do IASB (International Accounting Standards Board). São apresentados os conceitos do IASB e CPC (Comitê de Pronunciamentos Contábeis) de reconhecimento, mensuração e contabilização dos derivativos com ênfase nos instrumentos de hedge (hedge accounting), os controles internos necessários para o controle e gestão dos instrumentos financeiros e os efeitos fiscais na utilização de derivativos e das importações (Transfer Price) usando os instrumentos de hedge

The thesis is focused on the management of exchange rate risk in international trade. The work is divided into theoretical and practical part. The first part deals with the theories of the exchange rate, exchange rate risk and also on its management. The most common way of risk hedging is the use of currency derivatives. Therefore their advantages and disadvantages will be presented. In the practical part, theoretical knowledge will be applied to foreign exchange risk management of a specific Czech international trading company. After evaluating of its current approach, more effective hedging strategy will be suggested.