stakeholders. Hedging reduces the variability of the MNC's total cash flow and thus reduces the
manager's exposure to currency risk.
Management's Incentive to Hedge
Because their salary is based on unit performance, unit managers have an incentive to hedge their
unit's exposure to currency risk. This is true even if the corporations as a whole is hedged against
exposure to currency risk.
Management of Transaction Exposure. Consider a U.S.-based firm with an export and an import
division. The export division buys jewelry in Sante Fe, New Mexico, and sells it in Paris, France.
Contracts are denominated in Euros and payable in one month. A typical transaction is as follows.