Multinational Business Finance

This article discusses multinational business finance and how to expand business internationally in the global markets. It covers researching a company and investigating its overseas operations in China considering the investments, capital markets, exchange rates for the foreign country and currency restrictions. It also talks about ways by which management could use knowledge to teach other small-business owners to break into this lucrative overseas market and various kinds of research to make the best decision on financing the company and methods for financing international trade. Lastly, it recommends taking the international leap for Dansko, a small sized company, to expand its business and generate more revenue.

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Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Researching a company and investigating its overseas operations in China considering the
investments, capital markets, exchange rates for the foreign country and currency restrictions.. . .4
Ways by which management could use knowledge to teach other small-business owners to break
into this lucrative overseas market..................................................................................................6
Various kinds of research to make the best decision on financing the company and methods for
financing international trade............................................................................................................7
Would you recommend the owner of this small business take the international leap? Why or why
not?..................................................................................................................................................8
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................9
References......................................................................................................................................10

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Introduction
The topic introduces the concept of multinational business finance, i.e., expanding
business internationally in the global markets. The business organisation named has been chosen
as the case study, which is looking to expand globally and provide products and services to the
foreign market segments to gain more customers and increase sales for the company too. The
topic will discuss about how the company will be able to enter the overseas market what
approaches will be undertaken to manage the capital markets, foreign exchange rates and
investments properly (Manova, Wei & Zhang, 2015). There are certain currency restrictions in
China, which are needed to be considered by the footwear company, because it wants to expand
its business operations and generate more business revenue by entering the overseas markets in
China.
Dansko is a small sized footwear company that consists of 150 employees and annual
revenue of nearly $120 million in United States. The product line of the company basically
includes boots, sandals and sneakers. The company manages the employee stock ownership plan
and conducts consistent monitoring processes to keep the employees skilled, knowledgeable and
active enough to deliver the best quality products and services to the customers. The
manufacturing and production processes are managed with high precision through maintenance
of the labor standards and even on creating lesser impact on the environment (dansko.com,
2018). As it is a small growing company, the company wants to expand business globally and it
has targeted the Chinese overseas markets where the products and services of the company will
delivered for accomplishing the goal of obtaining more customers and generating better revenue
in business.

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Researching a company and investigating its overseas operations in China considering the
investments, capital markets, exchange rates for the foreign country and currency
restrictions.
While conducting a face-to-face interview with an employee of the organisation, I
obtained relevant information about how the company managed to establish global business
successfully and even created a huge difference between the present and previous years’
generated profit. It is quite normal for a small sized organization to consider the resources
available at first, and then think of the exporting activities to manage global outreach and at the
same time gain long-term business success. Before entering the Chinese markets, Dansko has
established contacts with the local footwear companies and even with the higher officials of the
Chinese footwear industry (Buettner et al., 2012). By representing in China with the support
provided by a Chinese agent, distributor or business partner, it would be easy for the company to
manage the intellectual rights. This allowed the company to protect its IT under the Chinese laws
prior to the entering into the overseas markets. Being a US based company; there were multiple
options for forming a corporate sector in China including the Foreign Owned enterprise,
investment vehicles and Joint ventures too. Dansko’s CEO and manager who have enough
knowledge expertise to conduct researches on the Chinese markets consulted with the IP rights
holders and business lawyers in China. Mandy Cabot (CEO) and the manager Peter Kjellerup
also included lawyers from both United States and China to research the market thoroughly for
making the small sized company succeed in the Chinese market (Shroff, Verdi & Yu, 2013).
The Department of Commerce, US and United States Foreign Commercial services
provided support to the company to offer customized solutions and succeed in the overseas
markets. According to the responses of the employees, USFCS helped the company to prepare

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market entry as well as global expansion plans furthermore make the company learn about the
export and customer related matters. This has helped in gaining export financing as well as the
potential partners and business agents have been identified easily, who could be considered as
major individuals affecting the global business expansion. Dansko purchased the Gold Key
Service and got engaged with USFCS to leverage the high-level bilateral policy and financing
matters discussions (Butler, 2016). When asked to the company executive about how it was
involved with the company’s success in China, he stated that these tools provided the company
scopes to position in the right market segments in China and took advantage of these markets to
sustaining the business.
The foreign exchange rate reduced to more than 6 percent, because of the rise in US
dollar due to the increase in rates of interest by Federal Reserve. Capital started flowing from
China to United States downward pressure was put on the dollar exchange rates. The company
consulted with the PBOC bank to make sure that the exchange rate differences could be
eliminated by increasing the rates of interest and devaluing the Yuan to ensure better control
over the capital markets. Various capital controls were imposed for managing restrictions on
Chinese investment in foreign companies (Alfaro & Johnson, 2012). Due to the new capital
controls, the business investments were done at lesser rates. Due to this, the local businesses also
suffered and so to cope up with the tight capital controls, Dansko was welcomed to keep up with
the capital control requirements and deliver the products and services accordingly. By managing
the foreign exchange rates and capital, the organisation was successful in developing new stores
all over China and even purchased the products locally through paying local currencies that were
considered cheaper. This also helped in gaining enough profit and allowed the small company to
reinvest money in the overseas markets of China (Buckley & Casson, 2016).

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Ways by which management could use knowledge to teach other small-business owners to
break into this lucrative overseas market
The management of the company could play a vital role in spreading necessary
knowledge and allow the small and medium sized organizations to break into the lucrative
overseas markets in China. There could have been difficulties for the US business to operate in
China and trade with the Chinese footwear companies, but Dansko could gain proper control of
the domestic monetary policies by managing free flow of capital and managing the foreign
exchange rates properly. To manage the Yuan’s USD exchange rates, Dansko could also
generate funds or take loans from People’s Bank of China or PBOC and combine the capital and
exchange rate controls on a consistent manner of the foreign exchange rates of CNY versus the
currencies. The management must understand the foreign currency impact and then evaluate the
Chinese currency and its impact on global business expansion (Titman, Keown & Martin, 2017).
The management must find out the cheapest ways of promoting the export activities for the
footwear company and make sure to generate enough revenue in business. The management
level of the company could also assess the time when the local RMB should be valued quite low,
because of which the Chinese importers would buy the products of the foreign company, i.e.,
Dansko at a much higher price. Choosing the right market segments in China would be essential
for entering the overseas markets as well as attract the foreign suppliers. This would not only
make the small sized companies to lower the costs of operations, but would also influence the
consumer spending behavior, which would ensure growth and development consistency all
throughout (Brealey et al., 2012).
To create a sustainable place in the overseas markets, the company must understand the
Government policies, rules and regulations to gain success in the Chinese market. According to

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the Chinese foreign investment catalogue, the foreign investments and exporting trade activities
should be encouraged, which could create enough opportunities for the company to deliver
products by aligning with the foreign market rules and regulations too. Exporting activities could
be beneficial by capitalizing on the scale economy and gain better control over the processes of
distribution of products and services (Hennart, 2012). Licensing should be effective as well,
according to the company’s management, because it would allow the licensor to make limited
rights and resources available to the licensee in the host country. The trademarks, copyrights and
intellectual properties would be protected, furthermore create better scopes to enter the overseas
markets and expand quickly without much risks and large amount of capital investments (Foley
& Manova, 2015).
Various kinds of research to make the best decision on financing the company and methods
for financing international trade
To make the best decision of financing the company, one of the most suitable methods
could be the utilization of Foreign Investment vehicle. It is an useful method for financing
international trade because it possesses high level of managerial control and can employ people
without much restrictions, which can pro0vide better flexibility and convert the RMB profits into
the US dollars. It also provides better protection of intellectual properties and creates better
scopes and opportunities to use the existing customer base and sales network. The Joint ventures
could be helpful as well for Dansko to invest together though the profit would be distributed
between the two parties (Chor & Manova, 2012). This would also allow the company to gain
accessibility to the existing resources of the business partner and improve the production facility.
The costs of managing the business operations would be lowered, furthermore make better
financing decisions in business. The market research conducted helped in developing knowledge

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through obtaining of more information and even interviews were conducted with the footwear
industry experts in China. The qualitative methods were used to conduct interviews with the
managers of the footwear companies while the quantitative method allowed the company to gain
the responses of the respondents regarding their needs and requirements and what prices could
influence their buying decisions (Becker, Chen & Greenberg, 2012).
Other methods for financing international trade could be cash in advance, open accounts
and letters of credit. The exporter could prevent credit related risks by recovering the payment
before transferring the ownership of goods to another person. With the advancement in
technologies, the cash in advance option would be effective for the small export transactions and
make sure that the small sized business do not remain behind the competitors within the footwear
industry in China. Consignment is another method that can enable open account where the
payments are sent to the exporter as soon as the foreign distributors, i.e., Dansko, sell the goods
and services to the customers (Teng, Min & Pan, 2012). The market researches could also help in
evaluating the nature and size of the market and overcome the barriers that might be faced while
entering the foreign markets. A well-executed market research conducted could also be able to
prevent poor decision-making and develop clear strategies for mapping success in the future
(dansko.com, 2018).
Would you recommend the owner of this small business take the international leap? Why
or why not?
Yes, I would definitely recommend Dansko to take the international leap not only to
expand its business but also to generate more revenue in business. Managing global distribution
of products and services could also allow the company to spread its business worldwide and

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increase the customer base, furthermore influence more and more customers to buy the footwear
products of the company. The company manages sustainable approaches to create lesser impact
on the environment and at the same time deliver products and services to meet the customers’
needs and requirements. The international leap could be success for the organisation, because the
company would no longer be called as small sized company, because of its global operations and
there would be better products and services’ flexibility too (Lenzen et al., 2012). The
competition level would be reduced, which could allow the company to learn new methods and
establish good relationships with the global competitors. Thus, the international business
expansion should bring long-term success for the company and even gain competitive advantage
in the foreign markets in China (Yarbrough & Yarbrough, 2014).
Conclusion
Dansko, being a small sized company wanted to expand its business by entering the
foreign markets in China, where there were certain trade related restrictions and foreign
exchange rate issues. The company must consider the capital markets, exchange rates for the
foreign country and currency restrictions to break into the foreign market segments. The
management though recommended the small companies to use exporting and licensing activities
to manage international business successfully whereas the qualitative and quantitative methods
allowed to conduct market researches. Lastly, it had been recommended to take the international
leap for Dansko, so that the profit level could increase and the sales should increase.

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