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Capital has a wide range of meanings, depending on the context. 
''Foreign exchange risk management''


For example, it may include financial resources, capital goods such as transport infrastructure, and human capital including knowledge, skills and relationships.
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Pre-transaction foreign exchange risk arises from needing to commit to a price before actually entering into transactions or commercial agreements.


1. ''Financial reporting''.
For example, an exporter may need to publish price lists in the currencies of its customers' local markets.


In financial accounting, capital is money the business owes the owner.  
Pre-transactional currency exposure also exists when an organisation tenders for a contract priced in a foreign currency, or where there are associated foreign currency costs, for example for materials, labour or other operational inputs.


This is equal to assets minus liabilities (including debt).
Some practitioners do not identify pre-transaction risk as a separate class of risk, rather considering it to be a shorter-term type of economic exposure.


In other words, the equity.


Equity capital funds the net assets of the business.
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It also acts as a buffer to absorb losses or other deficits, to support the business to continue its operations following financial stress.
The same as Contingent risk as applied to currency management.




2. ''Corporate finance''. 
Also known as pre-transactional risk, pre-transaction exposure or pre-transactional exposure.
 
More broadly in the corporate finance context, 'capital' is the total amount of funding available for the operations of an organisation. 
 
This includes both its debt and its equity.
 
 
3. ''Company law''.
 
More narrowly in company law, 'capital' is the component of the total equity represented by the share capital of the company.
 
 
4. ''Regulation''.
 
In the regulatory capital context, 'capital' means what the particular detailed regulations say that it means.
 
Here as elsewhere, care and consistency in definitions is essential.
 
Regulations and related supervision specify minimum mandatory amounts of capital, held for the protection of direct stakeholders and the wider community.
 
 
5. ''Economics''.
 
'Capital' is one of the 'factors of production' in economics, the others classically being labour, land and enterprise.
 
In this context, 'capital' traditionally referred to the things that have been created to help in the production process, like machinery, factories and transport facilities. These things are sometimes known as 'capital goods'.
 
Human capital, natural capital and social capital are also fundamentally important parts of economic capital.
 
 
6. ''Individual capital''.
 
The valuable and productive longer term resources available to an individual including their knowledge, skills, relationships, physical and financial resources.
 
 
7. ''Sustainability - Forum for the Future''.
 
The Forum for the Future identifies five areas of capital in a model designed as a "framework for sustainability".
 
The five areas of capital in this model are:
 
*Human capital
*Social capital
*Manufactured capital
*Financial capital
*Natural capital




== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Assets]]
* [[Contingent risk]]
* [[Book value]]
* [[Currency risk]]
* [[Capital adequacy]]
* [[Economic risk]]
* [[Capital goods]]
* [[Foreign exchange risk]]
* [[Capital instrument]]
* [[Translation risk]]
* [[Capital intensity]]
* [[Transaction risk]]
* [[Capital management]]
* [[Capital market]]
* [[Capital mobility]]
* [[Capital structure]]
* [[Capital to labour ratio]]
* [[Capitalisation]]
* [[Capitalism]]
* [[Corporate finance]]
* [[Cost of capital]]
* [[Debt]]
* [[Debt capital]]
* [[Enterprise]]
* [[Equity]]
* [[Equity cost of capital]]
* [[Factors of production]]
* [[Finance]]
* [[Financial asset]]
* [[Financial capital]]
* [[Financial liability]]
* [[Financial markets]]
* [[Financial risk]]
* [[Forum for the Future]]
* [[Funding]]
* [[Human capital]]
* [[Interest]]
* [[Investment bank]]
* [[Labour]]
* [[Land]]
* [[Liabilities]]
* [[Liquidity]]
* [[Manufactured capital]]
* [[Market value]]
* [[Natural capital]]
* [[Primary market]]
* [[Regulatory capital]]
* [[Return]]
* [[Secondary market]]
* [[Share capital]]
* [[Social capital]]
* [[Working capital]]


[[Category:Accounting,_tax_and_regulation]]
[[Category:Manage_risks]]
[[Category:Compliance_and_audit]]

Revision as of 15:35, 18 March 2017

Foreign exchange risk management

1.

Pre-transaction foreign exchange risk arises from needing to commit to a price before actually entering into transactions or commercial agreements.

For example, an exporter may need to publish price lists in the currencies of its customers' local markets.

Pre-transactional currency exposure also exists when an organisation tenders for a contract priced in a foreign currency, or where there are associated foreign currency costs, for example for materials, labour or other operational inputs.

Some practitioners do not identify pre-transaction risk as a separate class of risk, rather considering it to be a shorter-term type of economic exposure.


2.

The same as Contingent risk as applied to currency management.


Also known as pre-transactional risk, pre-transaction exposure or pre-transactional exposure.


See also