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In looking at the suit filed by Anheuser, we can closer examine how Anheuser- Busch was damaged through the actions taken by Mr. Thayer. Anytime that an insider trading scandal takes place, there is always damages and repercussions. The most identifiable damage is that of money and capital. Anheuser-Busch paid nearly $40 million more for the acquisition of Campbell Taggart due to the active trading of Mr. Thayer, and the rest of the insiders. It is easily identifiable, that one damage to Anheuser-Busch was a $40 million dollar excess payment to acquire Campbell Taggart. By exploring and understanding capital markets, we find other monetary damages to Anheuser-Busch. These damages come from the cost of ongoing lawsuits with the SEC as well as with the defendants, Paul Thayer, and the other insiders. Another monetary damage from the effects of the insider trading is the allocation of management resources during the legal battles and

General Motors was the world’s largest automaker and, since 1931, the world’s sales leader. In 2001, GM had unit sales of 8.5 million vehicles and a 15.1% worldwide market share. Founded in 1908, GM had manufacturing operations in more than 30 countries, and its vehicles were sold in approximately 200 countries. In 2000, it generated earnings of $4.4 billion on sales of $184.6 billion. The company is trying to accurately calculate the risk of a potential devaluation to the ARS. In doing so the company had to decide between two options on how to proceed; was it worth the costs to increase the size of GM’s hedge position beyond the standard policy or should GM Argentina rely on other approaches to cope with the expected

General Motors Corporation, the world’s largest automaker, has an extensive global outreach, which places the firm in competition with automakers worldwide, and subjects itself to significant exchange rate exposure. In particular, despite most of its revenues and production being derived from North America, depreciating yen rates pose problems for the firm indirectly through economic exposure. While GM possesses ‘passive’ hedging strategies for balance sheet and income statement exposures, management has not yet quantified or recognized solutions to possible losses from the indirect competitive exposure it now shared with Japanese automakers in the U.S import

There are lots of methods to solve the changes in foreign currency and interest rates issue, however, derivative financial instruments are the major tunes Nike enterprise has used to tackle this issue. Despite the fact that this approach does not wipe out comprehensively the risk of foreign exchange, Nike enterprise still utilize it to minimize or delay the negative consequences. Specifically, the derivative financial instruments comprise embedded derivatives, interest rate swap, and foreign exchange forwards and options contracts (Nike annual report, 2014).

Loss of reputation and sales; fines for VW → loss of status and being made responsible for the scandal

This case explores the operating exposure of Jaguar PLC in 1984, just as the government is about to relinquish control and take the company public via an IPO. The primary concern of the CFO is that Jaguar sells over 50% of its cars in the US, while its production costs and factories are U.K.-based. This currency mismatch creates operating exposure for the firm that needs to be hedged.

This case explores the operating exposure of Jaguar PLC in 1984, just as the government is about to relinquish control and take the company public via an IPO. The primary concern of the CFO is that Jaguar sells over 50% of its cars in the US, while its production costs and factories are U.K.-based. This currency mismatch creates operating exposure for the firm that needs to be hedged.

Then, we took into consideration only a fluctuation of the exchange rate. The scenarios that we analyzed covers different positions of the dollar against the euro: weak dollar (USD 1,48/EUR), stable dollar (USD 1,22/EUR) and strong dollar (USD 1,01/EUR). Different coverage of costs with hedging was also introduced in the analysis. The three main policies are of not hedging, 100% hedging with forward contracts and 100% hedging with options.

It is not hard to see that the scandal would cause a horrid blow to VW’s image. Until the incident, VW had, like many other German companies, the reputation of “German engineering” (Robertson, 2013). However, instead of using that innovation to develop diesel-fueled cars compliant with U.S. standards, it decided to try to scam its way in the market. Not only did the company admit to having 11 million cars with software intended to cheat tests (Gates, Ewing, Russell & Watkins, 2017), it also plead guilty to “destroying evidence in an elaborate cover-up” (VW Admits Emissions Cheating and Cover-up, 2017); building further distrust among its consumers.

Nestlé S.A. is a Swiss company and owns a prestigious position being the world’s leading nutrition, health and wellness group (Nestlé, 2016). According to its annual report (2015), this company is exposed to many risks caused by movements in foreign currency exchange rates, interest rate and market prices. The foreign exchange risk comes from transactions and translations of foreign operations in Swiss Francs (CHF). The interest rate risk faces the borrowings at fixed and variable rates. The market price risk comes from commodity price and equity price. The former risk arises from world commodity market for the supplies of coffee, cocoa beans, sugar and others. The later risk arises from the fluctuations of the prices of investments held. (Nestle annual reports, 2015). Thus, financial derivatives instruments are used by this multinational corporation in order to hedge these risks.

The objective would be to match dollar cash inflows from US sales with dollar cash outflows in US dollar debt service (principal and interest). Porsche has chosen not to use this approach most likely because it does not “do debt.” The firm has not needed debt to finance its operating activities and investing activities under the current management team (since 1993), and it also does not philosophically believe in using debt (see page 5 of the case). A good point of discussion with students, however, is that a company does not necessarily need debt to use debt. The benefits of leverage are well known, and although many successful companies today do not choose to use debt (Intel, Dell, Exxon-Mobil, Microsoft to name a few), this does not necessarily prevent Porsche from revisiting this judgement. The benefit of using a financing hedge like dollar-denominated debt is that it would take less active management and would not require a major outlay of capital out front like currency options require (option premiums).

Volkswagen and was resolved in early 1997 when VW agreed to pay GM $100 million

Porsche started to downsize their engines to fit their engine emission rates to the new rules. By that move, Porsche was one of the first sports car manufacturer that started to downsize their engines. Downsizing the engine mean is actually pretty simple. They are actually taking 4.8 liter, eight cylinder V8 engine and changing it with the 3.6 liter, six cylinder V6 engine. When they are making the engine smaller, they are also adding that engine a turbocharger to make it much powerful as the bigger engine. (Turbocharger is helping the engine to get more air to the pistons to increase it is performance) Most of the Porsche customers thought bigger engines were stronger and it makes the car go faster. Actually, it is not true because when they add turbochargers to the engine, it makes the car much powerful as the bigger engines. Another thing about the downsizing the engine is the fact that, when the manufacturer downsizes the engine they are actually making the car lighter. When a car becomes lighter, it is actually goes faster than the previous models because it has much power as the old model, but it is lighter. However in order to prove their small engines performance to their customers, in 2014 Porsche started to compete in the FIA WEC 24 hour races to test their new downsized engines to see their performance and reliability in long endurance races.

In 2012 the firm purchased the ONESOURCE Indirect Tax Managed Services business of Thomson Reuters to further enhance its indirect tax compliance services. It made two acquisitions in 2011, as well. KPMG L.L.P. bought Optimum Solutions, which provides management consulting and implementation services to companies that use Oracle enterprise software. The move has enabled it to serve clients with ERP and HR transformation needs. To boost capacity, the company and its UK affiliate teamed up in 2011 to buy outsourcing advisory firm EquaTerra, adding another revenue stream. The acquisition follows KPMG L.L.P. 's 2010 purchase of the supply chain advisory services unit of second-tier accountancy Grant Thornton.

Overall, the global competitive rivalry is intense amongst major automotive brands. The intense competition combined with consumer expectations for socially responsible companies predicts Volkswagen’s post-scandal profit potential as marginal.