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Level 5 Diploma in Accounting and Business

Global financial risk environment

AB503 · Financial Planning and Control — Week 7 of 16

CourseAB503
Week7 of 16
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This week’s topics

Global financial risk environment

  1. Transaction, translation, and economic exposure
  2. Sovereign and country risk
  3. International interest rate volatility
  4. Cross-border credit default risk
  5. CIMA P3 Foreign currency risk - transaction risks
  6. Jesse Schreger: The Cost of Sovereign Default
  7. Interest Rate Risk Management - ACCA Financial Management (FM)

What you will be able to do

  • 3.1 Analyse the importance of global financial risk management.

Activity

Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: analyse the importance of global financial risk management.

Study materials

Videos

  • CIMA P3 Foreign currency risk - transaction risks · YouTube · OpenTuition · 30 min · for registered students
  • Jesse Schreger: The Cost of Sovereign Default · YouTube · Columbia Business School · 15 min · for registered students
  • Interest Rate Risk Management - ACCA Financial Management (FM) · YouTube · OpenTuition · 43 min · for registered students
  • The Carry Trade and Uncovered Interest Rate Parity -Professor Jagjit Chadha · YouTube · Gresham College · 50 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • Principles of Finance 2e, ch. 20: Risk Management and the Financial Manager · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 599–629 · for registered students
  • Political Risk, Economic Risk, and Financial Risk · PDF · Reading, article · for registered students
  • International Finance: Theory and Policy, ch. 5: Interest Rate Parity · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 174–198 · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Principles of corporate financial planning
  • Week 2: Formulating the corporate financial plan
  • Week 3: Sources of business finance
  • Week 4: Financing risks and capital structure
  • Week 5: Financial and money markets
  • Week 6: Investment appraisal and business strategy
  • Week 7: Global financial risk environment
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Global financial risk management and hedging
  • Week 10: Corporate governance and financial oversight
  • Week 11: Practical implications of governance on financial control
  • Week 12: Applying Financial Planning and Control in practice: case s…
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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