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Stock Market Indices Around the World In Chapter 1, we described the major U.S. stock market in- dices. As discussed below, simi ...

0 500 400 300 200 100 1/01 1/02 1/92 1/93 1/94 1/95 1/96 1/97 1/98 1/99 1/00 Relativ e Value (%) United States Chile Japan Hong ...

568 CHAPTER 15 Multinational Financial Management rates. An analysis should be conducted to ascertain the effects of exchange ra ...

International Capital Structures 569 Zingales used a database that covered fewer firms than the OECD but that provided a more co ...

570 CHAPTER 15 Multinational Financial Management German firms uselessleverage than U.S. and Japanese firms. What explains this ...

Multinational Working Capital Management 571 restrictions on transfers of funds out of the country, so although IBM can transfer ...

(^6) The term “dumping” warrants explanation, because the practice is so potentially important in international markets. Suppose ...

Summary 573 materials such as oil or bauxite, processing plants may be moved offshore rather than located close to the productio ...

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Exchange rate fluctuationsmake it difficult to estimate the dollars that ove ...

Problems 575 Questions Define each of the following terms: a.Multinational corporation b.Exchange rate; fixed exchange rate syst ...

576 CHAPTER 15 Multinational Financial Management A television set costs $500 in the United States. The same set costs 550 euros ...

Spreadsheet Problem 577 Assume that interest rate parity holds. In both the spot market and the 90-day forward market 1 Japanese ...

Citrus Products Inc. is a medium-sized producer of citrus juice drinks with groves in Indian River County, Florida. Until now, t ...

Selected Additional References and Cases 579 Selected Additional References and Cases Perhaps the best way to obtain more inform ...

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Working Capital Management 580 16 Dramatic improvements in computer technology and the growth in the Internet have transformed t ...

Working capital management involves two basic questions: (1) What is the appropri- ate amount of current assets, both in total a ...

582 CHAPTER 16 Working Capital Management An Illustration We can illustrate the process with data from Real Time Computer Corpor ...

(16-2) Thus, it takes 24 days after a sale to convert the receivables into cash. 3.Payables deferral period, which is the averag ...

584 CHAPTER 16 Working Capital Management Shortening the Cash Conversion Cycle Given these data, RTC knows when it starts produc ...