Impact of Changes in the Components of Sales on Sales Growth Sustainability

Changes in volume and prices primarily propel sales growth for a multinational corporation. Besides that, exchange rate changes between the reporting currency and the currency in which sales are made also drive sales growth. Reasonably, growth in sales that comes…

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Impact of Multinational Operations on a Company’s Effective Tax Rate

Accounting standards require companies to explain the relationship between tax expense and accounting profit. This explanation is presented as a reconciliation between the average effective tax rate and the applicable statutory rate. The effective tax rate is computed as the…

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Subsidiaries Operating in Hyperinflationary Economies

In a hyperinflationary environment, the local currency rapidly depreciates against the parent’s presentation currency. This is as a result of a deterioration of purchasing power. In this case, using the current rate to translate all of the balance sheet accounts…

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