Hedging Policy Tool & Simulation

Description
This is a hedging policy tool which is primarily used for assessing and simulating foreign exchange rate movements in terms of the impact on the Earnings Before Interest & Tax (EBIT) and the possibly financial implications of hedging or leaving exposures unhedged.

The simulation covers 2 main financial instruments being a Forward Foreign Exchange Rate instrument and a Range Forward Foreign Exchange Rate instrument.

Both of these will provide a level of risk mitigation that these instruments could offer. However, the cost of these instruments have not been included and therefore would need to be assessed overall in terms of the risk against the cost of purchasing the instruments vs leading the exposure unhedged.

The main purpose is to simulate this hedged and unhedged impact and on the basis of those results make a decision as to the whether the hedge instrument would be needed or not.

This wont necessarily only be from a banking perspective, but also from an operating businesses trading perspective to the extent that its creditors and or debtors are denominated in foreign currencies and these are likely to impact the financial results of the business, therefore possibly needing this impact to be protected by the derivative products mentioned.

This tool also demonstrates how its possible to visually depict simulations of a complex nature and therefore increase financial literacty and enable those that are possibly less familiar with the financial markets and derivatives and how they might decide which approach to take when considering the strategic goals forthe company.