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Business
9e
By Charles W.L. Hill
McGraw-Hill/Irwin
Chapter 20
Accounting and Finance
in the International
Business
What Is Accounting?
Accounting is the language of business
it is the way firms communicate their financial
positions
What Determines
National Accounting
Standards?
Accounting standards are rules for preparing
financial statements
What Is The
Lessard-Lorange Model?
Possible Combinations of Exchange Rates in the Control Process
20-8
What Is
Financial Management?
Financial management involves
1. Investment decisions what to finance
2. Financing decisions how to finance those decisions
3. Money management decisions how to manage the
firms financial resources most efficiently
20-9
20-13
What Is Global
Money Management?
Money management decisions attempt to
manage global cash resources efficiently
Firms need to
1. Minimize cash balances - need cash
balances on hand for notes payable and
unexpected demands
2. Reduce transaction costs - the cost of
exchange
multinational netting
20-15
20-16
20-17
20-18
20-19