COM is a well established company in the construction industry The company was founded by the Mac family 30 years ago and several family members still serve on the Board The company obtained a listing five years ago The Board has an appropriate balance between executive and non-executive members It also has audit remuneration and nomination committees The average age of board members is 68
COM is profitable but profit margins have been falling steadily and this year's revenues are lower than it was achieved last year The Board recognis thai it does not have a long term strategy in place and has been losing business to newer, more aggressive competitors
Which THREE of the following statements are correct?
M is a multinational IT company with headquarters in Asia and with operations in all continents.
It is now trying to expand its operations in Europe.This is seen as a major challenge as the European market is very well developed with established players in fierce competition against each other.
As well as developing and producing its own products, it sources products across Asia, America and Europe as part of infrastructure deals which have to include as much of its own equipmentas possible. In doing this, transfer prices can be set in YEN, USD, EURO, GBP. Transfer prices are revised every month in line with production times as most goods are made on short order timeswith sales cycles running at 3-4 months.
The longer sales cycle against committed transfer pricing presents problems as customers expect quotes to be valid for 90 days whereas M's suppliers reserve the right to revise pricing at the end of every month with quotes only valid for 8 days in the following month.
How should M deal with this problem?
An electricity company owns and operates a nuclear power station located ten miles from a large city. A recent and very extensive engineering examination of the power station concludes with the estimate that the probability of a major nuclear disaster within the next 20 years is 0.2%.
Which of the following best explains the relevance of quantifying the risk in that way?
An electricity company owns and operates a nuclear power station located ten miles from a large city. A recent and very extensive engineering examination of the power station concludes with the estimate that the probability of a major nuclear disaster within the next 20 years is 0.2%.
Which of the following best explains the relevance of quantifying the risk in that way?
Kis a manufacturing company. It has sourced new equipment from the US to equip a new production facility.
It has to make a payment of USD1,000,000 in3 months' time.
K's production manager needs to know whether it is cheaper to use a forward contract or a money market hedge.
Current spot and forward exchange rates are as follows:
Current mid-point money market rates (annual) are as follows:
Ignoring taxation, which of the following statements is correct?
