Does Firms Have Impact of Currency Appreciation and Currency Volatility on Market Shares?—Study of Selected Financial and Non-Financial Firms of India

摘要

This study concentrate style="font-family:Verdana;">s style="font-family:Verdana;"> on the new emerging challenges, opportunities and issues in the field of Exchange Rate Risk. It highlights style="font-family:;" "=""> style="font-family:Verdana;">the strong and significant negative impact from currency appreciation and currency volatility on market shares of India’s Exporting Financial and Non-Financial IT firms. Quantitative data analysis of companies style="font-family:;" "=""> style="font-family:Verdana;">has been done style="font-family:;" "=""> style="font-family:;" "=""> style="font-family:Verdana;">and evaluating the style="font-family:Verdana;">Sales/Revenue growth performance of Indian firms on various meas style="font-family:Verdana;">ures/factors like operating profit, gross profit, net profit etc. Further, style="font-family:Verdana;">we style="font-family:Verdana;">identify style="font-family:;" "=""> style="font-family:Verdana;">the dependent and independent variables and predict style="font-family:;" "=""> style="font-family:Verdana;">the factors that highly influence the fluctuations in Exchange rate. style="font-family:;" "=""> style="font-family:Verdana;">Finally, style="font-family:Verdana;">we style="font-family:Verdana;">suggest a model at the end and offer Suggestions and Recommendations to mitigate this risk arising due to currency fluctuations and increase the investor’s awareness about financial derivatives leading to important policy implications so as to make forex gains on account of hedging using forward contract style="font-family:;" "=""> style="font-family:Verdana;">rather than just aiming to square off its position.