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CHAPTER 10 QUIZ 31 Exposure of Net Cash Flows. Each of the following U.S. firms is expected to generate $40 million in net cash flows (after including the estimated cash flows from international sales if there are any) over the next year. Ignore any tax effects. Each firm has the same level of expected earnings. None of the firms have taken any positions in exchange rate derivatives to hedge their exchange rate risk. All payments for the int

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HCS 455 WEEK 3 Complete the Health Care Reform matrix grid. Submit the completed grid as a team to your instructor. University of Phoenix Material Health Care Reform Matrix With your learning team, complete the Health Care Reform matrix below. Listed in this matrix are some of the topics addressed by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act policy. You are required to describe the issue, in your own words, and list 2-3 points about

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CHAPTER 10 QUIZ 32 Cash Flow Sensitivity to Exchange Rate Movements. The Central Bank of Poland is about to engage in indirect intervention later today, in which it will lower Poland’s interest rates substantially. This will have an impact on the value of the Polish currency (zloty) against most currencies because it will immediately affect capital flows. Missouri Co. has a subsidiary in Poland that sells appliances. The demand for it

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HCS 455 WEEK 3 Write a 350- to 700-word essay discussing why Affordable Care Act passed and the Clinton Healthcare Reforms failed. Consider the following: • Compare and contrast each policy. • The steps in creating each policy. • At which step did each policy succeed or fail? • The stakeholders of each policy. Format your essay consistent with APA guidelines.

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CHAPTER 10 QUIZ 33 Applying the Value-at-Risk Method. You use today’s spot rate of the Brazilian real to forecast the spot rate of the real for one month ahead. Today’s spot rate is $.4558. Use the value-at-risk method to determine the maximum percentage loss of the Brazilian real over the next month based on a 95 percent confidence level. Use the spot exchange rates at the end of each of the last 6 months as shown below to con

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HCS 455 WEEK 3 Find a short news or online article that has been recently published (within the current month) that addresses healthcare reform in the United States or aligns with the week's topics, evaluation, analysis, and revision. Write a 350- to 700-word summary that describes the issue and its impact on the health industry and society as a whole. Consider the following: • What is the article about? • Does the article p

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CHAPTER 10 QUIZ 34 Assessing Translation Exposure. Kanab Co. and Zion Co. are U.S. companies that engage in much business within the U.S. and are about the same size. They both conduct some international business as well. Kanab Co. has a subsidiary in Canada that will generate earnings of about C$20 million in each of the next 5 years. Kanab Co. also has a U.S. business that will also receive about C$1 million (after costs) in each of the n

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CHAPTER 10 QUIZ 35 Cross-Currency Relationships. The Hong Kong dollar (HK$) is presently pegged to the U.S. dollar and is expected to remain pegged. Some Hong Kong firms export products to Australia that are denominated in Australian dollars and have no other business in Australia. The exports are not hedged. The Australian dollar is presently worth 0.50 U.S. dollars but you expect that it will be worth 0.45 U.S. dollars by the end of the ye

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CHAPTER 10 QUIZ 36 Interpreting Economic Exposure. Spratt Co. (a U.S. firm) attempts to determine its economic exposure to movements in the British pound, by applying regression analysis to data over the last 36 quarters: SP = b0 + b1e + u where SP represents the percentage change in Alabama’s stock price per quarter, e represents the percentage change in the pound value per quarter, and u is an error term. Based on the analysis, th

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HCS 455 WEEK 3 Policies are constantly being reviewed and considered to help improve the federal, state, or local health care systems. Each one has the potential to affect each of us on a daily basis, so careful consideration must be given when policies are proposed. It is important to understand the process of how a topic eventually becomes a policy. Choose a health care topic for which a policy might be formed. *Note: be sure to look ah

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