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International Finance
FP-EifPAcad. year: 2022/2023
Introduction to International Finance, Foreign Exchange Exposure, Credit Checking, Political Risk Assessment and Management, Terms of Payment and Doing Business Internationally, International Monetary System, European Monetary Union, International Financial Institutions, Export Credit Agencies, Foreign Direct Investments and Project Finance, Foreign Direct Investments and Capital Budgeting.
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Examination requirements: knowledge of subject and its practical applications. Form of examination is combined: written test and if necessary oral examination.
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Course curriculum
Topics of lectures are as follows:
1. Introduction to international finance, the balance of payments
2. The history and the evolution of the international monetary system
3. Exchange rate regimes
4. The European Monetary Union – the process of the integration of the financial markets and the financial institutions in the EU and their importance for companies, the European single currency
5. International financial institutions
6. Introduction to multinational corporation management: national versus international finance, the rise of the multinational corporation, the process of overseas expansion, designing a global expansion strategy
7. Financing a multinational corporation I. – export and import credits, export credit agencies, export credit insurance
8. Financing a multinational corporation II. – debt and equity markets, international banks and project financing, financing in Europe, in the USA and in Asia
9. Foreign investments – corporate strategy and foreign investment analysis, direct investment and portfolio investment, investment in Europe, in the USA and in Asia
10. Cost of capital and capital structure of the multinational firm, multinational capital budgeting
11. Taxes and multinational business strategy
12. Countertrade; international capital mobility, project finance
13. Current issues in international trade
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Aims
Framework conditions for the management of corporate finance in international area;
Payment conditions in export contracts, taking into account the potential risks;
Information sources for assessing the business and financial solvency of foreign business partners or other parties
Disposable Payment and Paying-hedging instruments in foreign trade, which may be different variations of smooth payments or documentary payments;
Short-and medium-and long-term refinancing instruments, such as bank loans (eg, state-supported by the Czech Export Bank), factoring, forfeiting, export leasing, etc.;
Security tools in a variety forms, contracts providing exchange rate risk, credit risk by providing export credit insurance and various forms of bank or government guarantees.
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Prerequisites and corequisites
- compulsory prerequisite
Finance 1
Basic literature
MOFFETT, M. H. – STONEHILL, A. I. – EITEMAN, D. K. Fundamentals of multinational finance. Boston, Mass.: Pearson/Addison-Wesley, 2006. ISBN 0-321-28031-8.
SHAPIRO, A. Multinational financial management. Hoboken: Wiley, 2010. ISBN 978-0-470-45035-2.
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- Programme MGR-EBF Master's 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
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• The history and the evolution of the international monetary systém
• Exchange rate regimes
• The European Monetary Union
• International financial institutions
• Introduction to multinational corporation management
• Financing a multinational corporation
• Foreign investments and investment strategy of multinaltional corpoarations
• Multinational capital budgeting and capital structure
• Taxes and multinational business strategy – international taxation of income
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