The main purpose of this work is to analyze currency risk management opportunities in the industrial company “Snaige”. In order to reach this objective some tasks are set during the work. Firstly it is important to reveal the importance of foreign exchange risk management for the companies that are vulnerable to adverse currency rates. Necessary condition of the work is to measure “Snaige” company’s exposure to currency risk. Using historical simulation and scenario analysis critical point is to compare company’s earnings using and not using hedging. Final task is to assess the benefit for the company on using specific derivatives. Correlation analysis shows that USA dollar, Russian rouble and Ukrainian hryvnia currencies are positively related to each other. Exposure measurement VaR calculation results reveal that currencies with a strong positive correlation have a highest risk and are the most worth hedging. From the historical simulation and scenario analysis it is clear that company will incur huge losses in 2008 if it does not manage foreign exchange risk. Finally, it is important to mention that hedging instruments differ and the choice of using specific derivatives should depend on the current market situation and the foreign exchange risk management policy of the company. / Bakalaurinio darbo tikslas yra ištirti valiutų rizikos valdymo galimybes gamybinėje įmonėje “Snaigė”. Norint pasiekti nusistatytą tikslą yra užsibrėžti konkretūs uždaviniai. Pirmiausia yra svarbu atskleisti valiutų rizikos valdymo svarbą įmonėms, kurios yra jautrios nepalankiems valiutų kursų svyravimams. Nemažiau svarbi darbo dalis yra išmatuoti įmonės “Snaigė” valiutų rizikos dydį. Atliekant istorinės simuliacijos ir scenarijų analizes svarbus veiksnys yra palyginti įmonės pajamas apsidraudžiant bei nedraudžiant valiutų rizikos. Galutinis darbo uždavinys yra naudos įvertinimas įmonei “Snaigė” naudojat išvestines finansines priemones Koreliacijos analizė rodo, jog JAV dolerio, Rusijos rublio ir Ukrainos grivinos valiutų svyravimai stipriai priklauso vienas nuo kito. Valiutų rizikos dydžio VaR skaičiavimų rezultatai atskleidžia, kad valiutos, kurios turi stiprų teigiamą ryšį, taip pat yra pačios rizikingiausios ir jas labiausiai verta apdrausti. Atlikus istorinės simuliacijos bei scenarijaus analizes yra nustatyta, jog įmonė, nevaldydama valiutų rizikos, patirs milžiniškus nuostolius 2008 metais. Galiausiai yra svarbu pažymėti, jog valiutų rizikos draudimo instrumentai skiriasi ir pasirinkimas naudoti konkrečias išvestines finansines priemones turėtų priklausyti nuo esamos rinkos situacijos bei vykdomos įmonės rizikos valdymo politikos.

The international business and finance literature documents a so-called exchange rate exposure puzzle. The exchange rate exposure puzzle refers to the apparent lack of empirical support for theories posited in the finance literature which predict that in the advent of an increasingly globalising world economy, nonfinancial firms should report high levels of foreign exchange risk exposure. The majority of the studies are based on the developed market context and the emerging markets of the ASEAN region. However, there is scant literature in the context of the emerging markets of the African continent. Considering that the estimation of foreign exchange risk exposure is based on the application of asset pricing models, and the fact that emerging markets are generally found to be partially segmented, the so-called exchange rate exposure puzzle cannot be generalised to the emerging markets of Africa. The general aim of the study was to examine the level of foreign exchange exposure of nonfinancial firms in South Africa, hedging behaviour and their effect on corporate value, taking into account idiosyncratic factors. Foreign exchange risk exposure were estimated at more than 40% for all for proxy currencies on the basis of the standard augmented market model. However, after controlling for idiosyncratic factors exposure levels were found to range between 6.5% and 12%. These results indicate the importance of controlling for the effects of idiosyncratic factors in the estimation of foreign exchange risk exposure in the context of emerging markets. Furthermore, the study found exposure levels to be time-varying with respect to the trade-weighted exchange rate. An indirect test of asymmetric exposure revealed results that are similar to those estimated on the basis of a more direct test in the form of a Nonlinear ARDL model and these were found to be higher than those estimated on the basis of the standard model. iii The study established that South African nonfinancial firms are likely to hedge using foreign currency derivatives when they have foreign sales, have lower interest coverage, have access to capital markets, are highly liquid, have higher gearing, and whose management have equity stakes in the firm. In contrast, South African nonfinancial firms were found to be more likely to hedge using foreign currency denominated debt when they are small in size, have foreign sales, are highly leveraged, have less growth opportunities, are highly liquidy. The magnitude of the marginal effects show that foreign sales is the single most important determinant of the decision to hedge using foreign currency denominated debt. In contrast, managerial incentives play no role in the decision to hedge using foreign currency denominated debt. Corporate currency risk management using foreign currency derivatives and foreign currency denominated debt was found to have no beneficial effects on corporate value. However, foreign currency denominated debt use was found to be much more effective than the use of foreign currency derivatives. The study identified the need for South African firms to adopt a more strategic approach in the management of economic foreign exchange risk exposure.

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.

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The growth of the international business offers the chance for companies to enter new markets in order to increase their revenues. The transactions in foreign currencies are influenced by the impacts of the volatility of the exchange rates in the sense that an unfavorable evolution of the exchange rates can result in a considerable loss. The main aim of this thesis is to analyze the process, the strategy and the overall importance of the management of the foreign exchange risk in the context of an international company. The theoretical part introduces foreign exchange rates, three types of the foreign exchange risks and it further focuses on the basic techniques used for measuring the risk and the methods for its management. The practical part focuses not only on the foreign exchange risk management for the company's global level, but also on providing a detailed analysis of the foreign exchange impact on its three subsidiaries.

The diploma paper offers a complex view on hedging of a foreign exchange risk in a concrete company, which is highly dependent on export. Preliminary theoretical part sums up all the possibilities how to avoid risk, including hedging or financial derivatives. Specific attention is paid to in practise always more popular option strategies. Practical part then try to apply all the acquired knowledge on a concrete company. After the complex analysis of revenues and expenditures is presented analysis and evaluation of the whole hedging strategy.

This thesis deals with selected aspects of financial management of transnational corporations and describes the impact of foreign exchange risk on these companies. The theoretic part of this thesis explains terms like cash pooling, netting and concerns the issue of transfer prices. Furthermore the principles of foreign exchange risk, transaction, economic and translation exposure are defined with focus on financial derivatives that serve as instruments for managing and hedging the risk. The practical part depicts the case study, in which the theoretical knowledge has been applied to a chosen international company.

This paper deals with the management of foreign exchange risk and focuses on ŠKODA JS a.s. Its aim is to evaluate the process of risk managing in the company, assuming that foreign exchange risk has a substantial impact on business. The analysis itself is based on interpretation of foreign exchange position, forecasts of both exchange rate and expected losses, explicit hedge strategy and details of financial derivatives used for hedging.

This thesis deals with derivatives and their use in hedging foreign exchange risk. The aim is to examine methods of hedging FX risk with derivatives and specifically evaluate the ways and extent of their use on the Czech market. In the first chapter the term risk and particularly FX risk is explained and its identification, measurement, management and elimination methods are described. The second chapter focuses on the main types of derivatives, their characteristics and use in risk management. The third chapter describes and evaluates the actual use of derivatives on the Czech market based on their analysis in the Czech banking sector.

No / We compare actual and calibrated values for the foreign exchange risk premium based on the definition in [J. Int. Econ. 32 (1992) 305]. Calibrated values are found from within a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model of a small open economy consisting of risk averse optimizing agents with unconventional preferences. We find that the equilibrium foreign exchange risk premium is a function of exogenous shocks in the model and is sensitive to assumed attitudes towards risk. Furthermore, various forms of policy uncertainty improve the capacity of the model to generate values closer to those found in the data.