Question

FutureForm, a U.S. company, imports microprocessors from Japan. The company must pay in yen to the Japanese supplier within 30 days. In a particular exchange, the company must pay the Japanese supplier ¥150,000 for each microprocessor at the current dollar/yen spot exchange rate of $1 = ¥110. FutureForm intends to resell the microprocessors the day they arrive for $1,600 each but it does not have the funds to pay the Japanese supplier until these have been sold. What will happen if the exchange rate after 30 days is $1 = ¥90?

Answer 1

Answer:

The price per microprocessor will increase to $1,666.67 from $1,363.64 which was the price when they received them.

Explanation:

At the day that FutureForm receives the microprocessors, it owes its Japanese supplier $1,363.64 per microprocessor. Since FutureForm didn't have the money to them immediately and had to wait one month to collect it, the amount owed per microprocessor increased to $1,666.67. This happened because the Japanese yen appreciated against the US dollar and now you need more US dollars to buy the same amount of Japanese yens.