Project – International Financial Management

20% weightage

You will be assigned a currency contract(spot/futures/option) wrt a base currency (through draw of lots on Friday)

Data Collection and Submission in Excel format (hyperlinked to PPT) Collect conversion rates wrt base currency from 1st February 2010 to 1st

February 2015 from reliable internet sources Show the mean, standard deviation, minimum, and maximum values for

exchange rate and percentage change Show the Graph of the behavior of the exchange rates over the period This carries 30% weightage (inclusion of all required information,

statistical summary, appearance of the excel report etc). Research the currency contract you have been assigned and write a summary

which includes the following information. The summary must be presented in PPT format which should include: Description of the exchange rate behavior over the period Identification of the key events and/or factors that influenced the rate Identification of five organisations who used these contracts for

trading/hedging (use annual reports and news articles) Indication of the sources of work used to prepare the summary slides This section would include presentation of slides with the content

(maximum 10 minutes for presentation) This carries 70% weightage (inclusion of all required information,

analysis, appearance of the slides, delivery of the presentation etc).