Course13010700160 lectures
International Financial Management
Prof. Ashu Khanna · IIT Roorkee
About
Globalization has transformed the financial landscape by removing capital flow restrictions and driving innovations like derivatives and fintech solutions. This course covers key international finance concepts including capital flows, exchange rates, and parity theorems. It emphasizes foreign exchange risk and its management through hedging techniques. Additionally, it explores international capital budgeting, working capital, financing, and portfolio decisions. The course also addresses financial challenges faced by multinational corporations (MNCs).
Intended audience: Management/Commerce/Any other Students (Finance, International Business)Professionals in Banking and International Trade Entrepreneurs and Exporters/Importers
Lectures
Week 1
- Introduction
- Basic Concepts and Terminologies
- Gold Standard
- Transition from Gold Standard to Bretton-Woods
- SDRs
Week 2
- Fixed vs. Floating Exchange Rates
- Exchange Rate Regimes
- Balance of Payments
- Financial Crisis-1
- Financial Crisis-2
Week 3
- Parity Relations - Purchasing Power Parity
- International Fisher Effect and Fisher Effect
- Interest Rate Parity Theory
- Theories of Exchange Rate Determination & Exchange Rate Pass Through
- Forecasting Exchange Rates
Week 4
- Exchange Rate Quotations
- Cross Currency Rates
- TT Bills, Letter of Credit & FIMMDA Guidelines
- NEER & REER
- Recap Lecture- Lec1 to Lec19
Week 5
Week 6
- Translation Exposure
- Translation of Income Statement and Integral and Non-Integral Foreign Operations
- Balance Sheet Translation & Managing Translation Exposure
- Country Risk - Concept, Types, Assessment
- Country Risk - Management & Mitigation
Week 7
- Introduction to Economic Exposure
- Managing Economic Exposure
- Natural Hedging
- Currency Swaps
- Carriage Risk
Week 8
- FEMA - The Regulatory Framework for Foreign Exchange in India
- Development of the Foreign Exchange Market in India
- Participants in India’s Forex Market and Types of Orders
- Options Trading Strategies
- Recap - Lecture 21 to Lecture 39
Week 9
- Why Nations Trade?
- Theories of FDI
- International Capital Budgeting-1
- International Capital Budgeting-2
- International Capital Budgeting-3
Week 10
- International Working Capital Management
- International Cash Management
- Managing Cash Balances
- International Receivables Management
- International Inventory Management
Week 11
- International Bond Markets - Basics, Structure & Bond Yield
- International Bond Instruments and their Regulatory Framework
- International Equity Markets
- International Cost of Capital
- International Capital Structure
Week 12
Syllabus and materials
At NPTEL, as the course publishes them.
Credits and licence
- Institution
- IIT Roorkee
- Department
- Economics
- Teacher
- Prof. Ashu Khanna
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Economics
- Source
- NPTEL
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
- Attribution
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