Impact of Australian Dollar Exchange Rate Fluctuations on Selected Businesses

The research is intended to explain the Australian dollar exchange rate fluctuations in comparison to US Dollar and in the forecast of continuing to do the same might increase the degree of uncertainty for certain businesses. The paper intends to discuss hat exchanged rate has a key role in a nation’s trade level that is essential for most free market economy globally.

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Executive Summary
The research is intended to explain the Australian dollar exchange rate fluctuations in
comparison to US Dollar and in the forecast of continuing to do the same might increase the
degree of uncertainty for certain businesses. The research has decided to make a great
contribution for enhancing share performance of selected businesses through analyzing the
dynamic nature of exchange rates, capability of business individuals to acquire goods and
services within foreign currencies. It is also recommended that the companies must ensilage
investment within the local industries along with quality products in order to improve product
export.

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction......................................................................................................................3
2. Background......................................................................................................................3
2.1. Research Problem.....................................................................................................3
2.2. Research Objectives..................................................................................................3
3. Answering Questions.......................................................................................................3
Question 1........................................................................................................................3
Question 2........................................................................................................................3
Question 3........................................................................................................................4
Question 4........................................................................................................................5
Question 5........................................................................................................................5
Question 6........................................................................................................................6
Question 7........................................................................................................................6
Question 8........................................................................................................................6
Question 9........................................................................................................................7
4. Conclusions......................................................................................................................7
5. Recommendations............................................................................................................7
References............................................................................................................................8

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1. Introduction
After the financial crisis, Australia is observed to be progressing from the recession and
there has been a minor increase and decrease. However, as per the data of Reserve Bank of
Australia, the exchange rate of Australian against US Dollar remained steady with slight rise and
fall of exchange rate (Apergis 2014). The paper intends to discuss hat exchanged rate has a key
role in a nation’s trade level that is essential for most free market economy globally. Conversely,
exchange rates must be considered on a smaller scale as this effect the real return on an
investor’s portfolio. Moreover, the paper will reveal several factors that impact the value of
Australian dollar in comparison to US dollar.
2. Background
2.1. Research Problem
The Australian dollar exchange rate fluctuations have been noticed in comparison to US
Dollar and in the forecast of continuing to do the same might increase the degree of uncertainty
for certain businesses (Avdjiev et al. 2016). Australian dollar value falls and rises in
correspondence with other currencies all through the world each day. Considering such research
problem, it is gathered that if such Australian currency movement is not properly managed, the
nation might collapse as civilians might not be able to acquire most of the imported goods
particularly from developed nations with powerful currencies such as US and Australian dollar
(Cavoli and Rajan 2014).
2.2. Research Objectives
Research objectives are mentioned below:
 Identification of the research problem through evaluating the broader theoretical,
economical, historical, social, business long with intellectual aspects.
 Investigating the social, business and economic issues associated with fluctuating
Australian dollar along with analyzing the Australian dollar trends over three years
3. Answering Questions
Question 1
The aim of this research study is to investigate the social, business and economic issues
associated with fluctuating Australian dollar along with analyzing the Australian dollar trends
over three years (Ilzetzki, Reinhart and Rogoff 2017). The research is intended to explain the
Australian dollar exchange rate fluctuations in comparison to US Dollar and in the forecast of
continuing to do the same might increase the degree of uncertainty for certain businesses (Di
Iorio and Faff 2015).
Question 2
There are four groups of people that can be affected by such Australian dollar movement.
Export, import, domestic and international investor groups are deemed to be affected by rise and
fall of Australian dollar exchange rate in comparison to US dollar. And these also react to such
fluctuations (Eickmeier and Ng 2015). For the exporter and importer groups, the fact that

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Australian dollar along with US dollar tends to rise and fall along with commodity and oil prices.
Moreover, exchange rate fluctuations impact the associated prices of traded services and goods
that increase the competitiveness of international and domestic trade and encourage Australian
dollar depreciation (Ilzetzki, Reinhart and Rogoff 2017).
Figure 1: Australian Exchange Rate Volatility against US Dollar
(Source: Ilzetzki, Reinhart and Rogoff 2017)
Domestic and international investors are easily impacted by Australian dollar movement.
Speculation regarding devaluation resulted in investors to delay bringing funds within Australia
in case it is assumed that assets might soon be cheaper (Stošić et al. 2015). Domestic and
international investors consider that Australian exchange rate movements marked a gradual
increase in riskiness of investment within Australia as a consequence of drastic increase in
external debt (Ilzetzki, Reinhart and Rogoff 2017). International investors are highly affected
from the exchange rate movements in Australian dollar comparing with US dollar. As, when
these investors acquire a foreign stock, these investors have to make two types of decision such
as the organization itself and the currency (Ilzetzki, Reinhart and Rogoff 2017). Australian dollar
fluctuation might present two scenarios, among which the desirable is rising stock prices and
attaining increased benefit from currency strengthening. The worst case for the investors can be
that the stock is going down and the Australian currency loses value in comparison to the US
dollar (Ilzetzki, Reinhart and Rogoff 2017).
Question 3
Australian dollar rate fluctuations have impacted four business categories including a
gold miner “Evolution Mining”, an airline “Qantas”, a consumer goods retailer “JB HI-FI” and

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an online business of selling and buying cars “Carsales.com” (Jiang and Gu 2016). Impact on
these businesses from Australian dollar movement is explained below:
 Direct exposure to the commodities: It is vital to note that the Australian dollar serves
as a special currency for the reason that it shifts as per the prices of the commodities
along with the shares of the commodity-based organizations. Australian dollar is a
commodity currency. Such commodity currency link is particularly vital for Evolution
Mining that gains benefits from increasing gold prices and for Qantas that lose with the
increase of oil prices (Moosa 2016). As the Australian Dollar rises with the increase in
commodity, an appreciating AUD is effective for Evolution Mining and can prove to be
worse for Qantas.
 Less or no exposure to the commodities: These four companies deal with the currency
impacts that are more in accordance with the classical theory. JB HI-FI imports most of
the goods sold by the company and for this reason; its profits are gradually impacted by a
stronger Australian Dollar for the cheaper imported goods (Nguyen and Duncan 2017).
Similar impact of the Australian Dollar exchange rate fluctuation is noticed for
Carsales.com operations within the nation for numerous cars and parts are imported
(Ilzetzki, Reinhart and Rogoff 2017). Conversely, the organization also has its operation
in Asian markets and Latin America which makes the total impact more difficult to
measure. This also depends on the currency correlations within the regions along with
between the regions. An elevated correlation indicates an increased currency exposure
(Pierdzioch, Risse and Rohloff 2016). All three companies attempt to decrease the
currency risk through locking in the price over a definite period by means of employing
forward exchange derivatives and contracts. For the reason that the Australian Dollar is a
commodity currency, this has been observed to have drastic impact on organizations like
Qantas and Evolution Mining than on the organizations that includes JB Hi-Fi and
Carsales.com.
Question 4
Australian exchange rate fluctuations are deemed to indicate certain symptoms on the
businesses of an airline “Qantas” and a consumer goods retailer “JB HI-FI”. Certain currency
moves might have a several impacts based on symptoms of a domestic economy but also on the
international one (Hughen and Beyer 2015). Another symptom is that investors might employ
such moves to their advantage through overseas investment or among the US multinationals at
the time the greenback is weak. One more symptom is that the currency moves might be a potent
risk at the time one has a huge forex exposures, it might be best to hedge these risks through
several available hedging instruments (Ilzetzki, Reinhart and Rogoff 2017). Another symptom
that can be noticed is that Australian Dollar has been moving more against the US Dollar
counterpart over the past few years as taken decision by the Federal Reserve in order to increase
the interest rates.
Question 5
The decision statement of the research is focused on offering a significant contribution to
knowledge for these centres on the evaluation of Australian dollar exchange rate fluctuation on
certain selected parameters within the nation (Garcia-Fuentes and Fukasawa 2016). The research
has decided to make a great contribution for enhancing share performance of selected businesses
through analyzing the dynamic nature of exchange rates, capability of business individuals to

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acquire goods and services within foreign currencies (Haque, Topal and Lilford 2015). This is
greatly impacted by Australian exchange rate fluctuation. Research objectives are mentioned
below:
 Identification of the research problem through evaluating the broader theoretical,
economical, historical, social, business long with intellectual aspects.
 Investigating the social, business and economic issues associated with fluctuating
Australian dollar along with analyzing the Australian dollar trends over three years.
Question 6
Three hypotheses that are considered to be tested in the research by the two businesses
namely an airline “Qantas” and a consumer goods retailer “JB HI-FI” have been prepared that
are explained under:
 Hypothesis 1: There is a positive influence of Australian exchange rate fluctuation on the
accessibility of company’s services and goods.
 Hypothesis 2: There is a positive influence of exchange rate fluctuation on the foreign
currencies fluctuations.
 Hypothesis 3: There is a positive impact of Australian exchange rate fluctuations on the
demand on the demand of foreign US currencies.
Question 7
Four research questions for two selected businesses namely an airline “Qantas” and a
consumer goods retailer “JB HI-FI” have been prepared that are explained under:
 How do the fluctuations in Australian exchange rate impacts the purchase of goods or
services within the foreign currencies along with indicating the ways in which the
exchange rate fluctuations impacts the purchase of services and goods in USD trough
employing the average exchange rates for three years from 2012 to 2014?
 How do the selected companies evaluate the revaluation because of fluctuation in
Australian exchange rate in terms of US olla through using USD exchange rates against
Australian current for three years from 2012 to 2014?
 What are the suitable techniques in dealing with risks of such Australian exchange rate
fluctuations?
 What are the social, business and economic issues associated with fluctuating Australian
dollar along with analyzing the Australian dollar trends over three years from 2012 to
2014?
Question 8
Certain ethical issues must be considered while completion of the research regarding the
impact of Australian dollar exchange rate fluctuations compared with US dollar on the two
selected business categories (Fabling and Sanderson 2015). In order to comply with the research
ethics, the respondents in the research were previously infirmed regarding the objective if data
collection along with the aim of the research. An increased focus was put on the fact that the
research was carried out for academic reasons and that information that is collected was solely
for the academic use and for evaluating the impact of the fluctuations in Australian exchange rate
on the revaluation of foreign currencies within Australia (Ferraro, Rogoff and Rossi 2015). In
addition to that, the respondents also were ensured that the responses will be maintained

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confidentially. The researcher also made sure that this research is his sole work and its reliability
along with its accuracy is maintained.
Question 9
Two of the selected businesses are provided with appropriate recommendations regarding
the research that can be undertaken by these businesses. These recommendations are explained
under:
 Policies and conditions are put into place within the regulation of Central bank in order to
control accessibility and movement of domestic currency
 It is also recommended that the companies must ensilage investment within the local
industries along with quality products in order to improve product export
 Encouragement of payment in local currency is recommended for the goods and services
of these companies in which there is a requirement to pay in the future date as this is
observed in the case in agreements and contracts
 Conducting further research is recommended to the two businesses through conducting
comparative evaluation with the current practice at the mining and consumer goods
industry
4. Conclusions
The objective of this paper was to investigate the social, business and economic issues
associated with fluctuating Australian dollar along with analyzing the Australian dollar trends
over three years. It was gathered from the paper that exchange rate fluctuations impacts the
associated prices of traded services and goods that increases the competitiveness of international
and domestic trade and encourages Australian dollar depreciation. Moreover, it is also evidenced
that if such Australian currency movement is not properly managed, the nation might collapse as
civilians might not be able to acquire most of the imported goods particularly from developed
nations with powerful currencies such as US and Australian dollar.
5. Recommendations
Conducting further research is recommended to the two businesses through conducting
comparative evaluation with the current practice at the mining and consumer goods industry. It is
also recommended that the companies must ensilage investment within the local industries along
with quality products in order to improve product export.

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