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INTERNATIONAL FINANCE. Ashalakshmi.R.K. Introduction-Finance. Finance –study of money management Finance – guides and regulates investments decision and expenditure Finance –flow of money, availability of funds etc. Types of finance. Direct and indirect finance Public finance
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INTERNATIONAL FINANCE Ashalakshmi.R.K
Introduction-Finance • Finance –study of money management • Finance –guides and regulates investments decision and expenditure • Finance –flow of money, availability of funds etc
Types of finance • Direct and indirect finance • Public finance • Corporation finance • Business finance • Project finance • International finance
International- ”among nations’ • Finance-……………………. • International finance can be defined as the flow of money among different nations and its management
International finance – • Export finance • Import finance • INDIA a vital participant in international trade • Policy of liberalization
Finance function • Accounting and control • Treasury management • These two functions are interdependent……..how?
Accounting , reporting and internal control • Financial analysis, planning, acquisition deployment
Significance of International finance • 1. Growing economic interdependence among nations: • Post world war economy • International trade has expanded at a faster rate than world output
Export and imports as a percentage GNP has remarkably high • Many less developed economies – • Reap the advantage of territorial division of labour • 1991 –INDIA the most suited example
2.Internationalization of world economy through GATT (WTO): • Reinforced after the eighth Uruguay round of GATT(General agreement on Tariff and Trade)
Formation of WTO • Member countries can access on agriculture, manufacture and services • Expand the economic space
Result was trade wars • Friction among trading nations • CASE: U.S.Japan Trade (on car) • Formation of EU • NAFTA(North American Free Trade Area)
APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation) • 3. Sweeping structural changes in world: • Bretton Woods Twins- IMF and IBRD (International Bank For Reconstruction and Development )
GATT - presided by American political and economy • Europe and Japan got enormous protection from US
US dollar played an instrumental role in internationalization • 1950s and 1960s belonged to an era of international stability
Loss of credibility of the U.S.dollar (1960s-1970s) • Cause: supply shock of oil crisis • Emergence of floating exchange rate system(1973)
Changed role of the US. since 80s • No longer has the traditional role of an architect and arbiter
Transition from fixed to floating exchange rates • Twin oil shock(1973 &1979) • Interest rate deregulation • Dismantling control on capital movement
All Under Bretton Woods currency management (IMF system 1945 to 1973) • Exchange rates were more or less rigidly fixed with minor variations
4.Emergence of global village • Business and finance become global • International competition • Globalization through multinational firms
Banking and commodity trade • Foreign Direct Investment • Interaction between domestic goods , money and labour market and global financial market
5.Diversity in economic life and role of information • Consumers –access to more than a million products • Global business manger has non working and non sleeping time • High quality information
6.Emergence of India key players in the fast growing Asian region: • Dramatic attitude towards productivity, cost quality, marketing skills etc