Includes Index

Contents: Part I:International financial environment -- Multinational financial management: an overview -- International flow of funds -- International financial markets -- Exchange rate determination -- Currency derivatives -- Part II: Exchange rate behavior -- Exchange rate history and the role of governments -- International arbitrage and interest rate party -- Relationships among inflation,interest rate and exchange rates -- Part III: Exchange rate risk management -- Forecasting exchange rate -- measuring exposure to exchange rate fluctuations -- Managing transaction exposure -- Managing economic exposure and translation exposure -- Part V: Long term asset and liability management -- Foreign direct investment -- Country risk analysis -- Long term financing -- Ethics -- Part V -- Short term asset and liability management -- Financing international trade -- Short -term financing -- International cash management -- Concluding comments.