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Chapter 16 Test Bank 9e
Chapter 16 Test Bank 9e
2. Which of the following best describes a company that practices enterprise risk management?
a. interest rate risk and currency risk would be managed in unison
b. a single department to manage risk
c. it would manage insurance-related risks along with financial risk
d. credit risk would be managed the same way as market risk
e. operational risk would be managed
6. Which of the following organizations recommends best practices for the investment management industry?
a. PRMIA
b. Risk Standards Working Group
c. GARP
d. G-30
e. Financial Accounting Standards Board
11. End users are all of the following types of organizations except?
a. investment funds
b. non-financial corporations
c. governments
d. financial institutions
e. none of the above
15. Prior to FAS 133, where on the financial statements were derivatives reported?
a. as contingent liabilities
b. as goodwill
c. as intangible assets
d nowhere because they were off-balance sheet items
e. in Other Comprehensive Income
16. Which of the following methods is not acceptable for disclosure under the SEC’s rules?
a. the CEO’s letter to the shareholders
b. tabular information
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c. sensitivity analysis
d VAR
e. none of the above
18. Derivatives dealers primarily conduct derivatives transactions for which of the following reasons?
a. to enhance the returns on their other investment transactions
b. to profit off of their ability to execute trades at the right time
c. to profit off of their market making services
d. to provide services to enhance the overall attractiveness of their product line
a. none of the above
19. Which of the following methods is not permitted to satisfy the SEC’s requirements for disclosure of
derivatives activity?
a. an explanation in the chairman’s letter
b. a Value-at-Risk figure
c. a sensitivity analysis
d. a table of market values and related terms
e. none of the above
21. Which of the following statements is not true about fair value hedges?
a. it requires a method of determining the fair value of the derivative
b. it defers recognition of all profits and losses until the hedge is terminated
c. it will cause earnings to fluctuate if hedges are not effective
d. it requires proper documentation
e. none of the above
22. Which of the following statements is not true about fair value hedges?
a. it requires identification of the effective and ineffective parts
b. derivatives profits and losses are temporarily carried in an equity account
c. it requires proper documentation
d. only dealer firms are eligible to use it
e. none of the above
24. Which of the following would not be included among typical derivatives end users in the U. S.?
a. pension funds
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b. corporations
c. state and local governments
d. the federal government
e. hedge funds
26. All of the following make up the financial derivatives risk management industry, except
a. end users
b. dealers
c. consultants
d. specialized software companies
e. GRAP professionals
28. Hedge accounting, based on FAS 133, addresses all of the following except
a. fair value hedges
b. unfair value hedges
c. cash flow hedges
d. foreign investment hedges
e. speculation
T F 2. End users typically invest more resources in their derivatives operations than do dealers.
T F 3. End users differ from dealers in that the latter engage in risk management transactions for
the purpose of earning a profit off the spread between their buying and selling prices,
while the former enter into transactions to manage specific risks.
T F 4. Dealers typically have more sophisticated risk management operations than end users.
T F 5. An effective risk management system requires that the risk manager be independent of the
derivatives traders.
T F 6. A risk management system that controls risk within a single department is considered to
be centralized.
T F 7. In a derivatives operations, back office personnel are in charge of front office personnel.
T F 8. Under SEC rules, derivatives activities must be disclosed in one of three ways.
T F 9. Risk management in which risks such as financial market risk and insurance risk are
managed jointly is called enterprise risk management.
T F 10. Barings Bank failed due to excessive government regulation of their derivatives activities.
T F 11. Cash flow accounting must be used for all hedges involving cash outlays.
T F 12. The purpose of IAS 39 is to prescribe standards for derivatives accounting for foreign
currency transactions.
T F 13. A corporate risk management function is typically carried out by the treasury department.
T F 14. By speculating in derivatives, Procter and Gamble used its treasury department as a profit
center.
T F 16. Prior to FAS 133, derivatives were accounted for in Other Comprehensive Income.
T F 17. A fair value hedge is a transaction designed to protect the market value of an asset held.
T F. 18. Transactions that do not qualify as hedges must be accounting for as speculation and
marked to market each period.
T F 19. SEC disclosure requirements force companies to reveal how they manage all risks.
T F 20. Senior management should be involved in the setting of policies and procedures of a firm’s
risk management operations.
T F 21. The G-30 report recommends how institutional investors should manage risk.
T F 24. A company’s auditors are not typically trained to serve in a risk management capacity.
T F 25. The basic premise behind FAS 133 is that derivatives transactions must be marked to
market and recorded somewhere in the financial statements.
T F 26. The objectives of end users of derivatives is the same as derivatives dealers: use
derivatives to make a profit.
T F 27. There are two distinct groups of specialists at derivatives dealer institutions, sales
personnel and traders.
T F 28. A derivatives dealer organization will engage in numerous transactions and naturally
should practice risk management at the centralized firmwide level.
T F 29. Effective risk management requires that the front office clerical
operations be separated from the back office trading operations.