
246 QUESTIONS AND PROBLEMS
eral basis. Monetary cooperation and international trade
is facilitated through the ______________ Fund
(______________). The ______________ Union (E.U.) is an
organization whose goal is to increase ______________
cooperation and integration among its European member
countries. The North ______________ Free ______________
Agreement (______________) is a pact among Canada,
Mexico, and the United States for the gradual removal of
trade barriers for most ______________ produced and sold
in North America.
3. A(n) ______________ company is a firm that does business
in two or more ______________. Most large U.S. corpora-
tions are ______________ firms, deriving a large part of
their income from operations beyond the U.S.
______________. Companies expand beyond their
______________ borders for many reasons, including: To
gain access to new ______________, to achieve
______________ efficiency, to gain access to ______________,
to reduce political and regulatory ______________, to diver-
sify, and to gain access to ______________.
4. Financial managers must be aware of the issues relating to
multiple ______________. In particular, the financial man-
ager must be aware of ______________ rates and the related
______________ risk. The ______________ rate is the num-
ber of units of a given currency that can be purchased for
one unit of another country’s ______________; the
exchange rate tells us about the relative ______________ of
any two currencies. Currency risk or ______________ risk is
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