This course provides the student the knowledge and skills needed to manage the complexities of financing exports, imports, and direct foreign investment. Topics, viewed primarily from the perspective of managers doing business overseas, include the management of foreign exchange exposure, overseas investment decisions, and multinational capital budgeting. Other topics covered include trends in international banking, the balance of payments, the determination of exchange rates, the LDC debt crisis, and the Asian currency meltdown.

It also includes the nature or behavior of foreign exchange rates and managing the impacts of exchange rates on short-term and long-term international business activities and performance objectives