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July 25th, 2010 - 7:40 pm § in Value of Equity

Value of Equity

The value of the company’s equity is the value of its operations plus nonoperating assets, such as investments in unrelated, unconsolidated businesses, less the value of its debt and any nonoperating liabilities. The valuation of Hershey’s equity is $9.4 billion, including $450 million r[...]

July 2nd, 2009 - 9:07 pm § in Currency Risk

BENCHMARKS FOR CURRENCY RISK MANAGEMENT

Corporations can use a variety of hedging benchmarks to manage their hedging strategies more rigorously. Aside from the hedging level as the benchmark (e.g. 75%), corporations which want to limit fluctuation in net equity use the reporting period as the benchmark for forward hedging. Typically, US c[...]