FIN 336 Multinational Corporate Finance sample papers, module by module

Reviewed by Portia Lambrick, MBA

FIN 336 extends corporate finance across borders: exchange rates and parity conditions, currency risk and hedging, country and political risk, international capital budgeting and financing a foreign operation. The samples below follow one composite South Dakota manufacturer from its first questions about Brazil to a recommendation on building a plant there.

FIN 336 is SNHU’s Multinational Corporate Finance course. It centers on financial management across currencies and borders: reasons for international expansion, foreign exchange markets and parity conditions, transaction, economic and translation exposure, hedging with forwards, options and money market instruments, country risk, international capital budgeting and financing foreign subsidiaries. Every module below opens a full sample paper or takes a free request for one; searches like "fin 336 module 3", "FIN336 sample paper" and "FIN 336 milestone example" land on this page.

What FIN 336 is really about

FIN 336 is SNHU's multinational corporate finance course, and it rewards work that keeps the currencies straight: which cash flows are in reais and which in dollars, what rate converts them and who bears the risk if that rate moves. Strong submissions show the parity calculations, compare hedging choices with real quotes and value foreign projects from the parent company's point of view, including taxes and limits on moving cash home.

The samples on this shelf share one composite company: a family-controlled manufacturer of grain storage bins, dryers and conveyors in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, with about 1,300 employees and revenue near $410 million, 28 percent of it from exports, and a sales subsidiary in São Paulo that bills Brazilian farm cooperatives in reais. The company and its figures are illustrative.

What FIN 336’s modules ask for

Across eight modules, FIN 336 typically asks for discussions on reasons for going abroad, financing foreign operations and ethics in international business, assignments on exchange rates, currency hedging and international capital budgeting, and two projects assessing a foreign market's risks and recommending an international investment.

Where students lose points in FIN 336

The most common FIN 336 deduction comes from mixing currencies, such as discounting reais at a dollar rate or converting cash flows at today's spot rate for every year. Close behind are hedging comparisons that ignore option premiums or forward rates, and capital budgets that value a foreign project only from the subsidiary's view. Labeling every figure with its currency and using parity-based forecasts fixes most of these.

The FIN 336 drawers

Module 1

FIN 336 Module 1 Discussion example

An opening post on why a composite Sioux Falls maker of grain bins and dryers, already exporting a tenth of its output to Brazilian cooperatives, is studying a plant in Mato Grosso: following the harvest the firm cannot store, cutting freight and import duty, matching costs to revenue in reais and learning a market from inside, set against Dunning's ownership, location and internalization advantages and the agency costs of running far from home. Full sample paper, read it free.

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Module 2

FIN 336 Module 2 Exchange Rates Assignment example

A Module Two assignment that explains how the Brazilian real is priced against the U.S. dollar and why it swung from under 5 reais per dollar at the end of 2023 to above 6 a year later, using inflation differentials and relative purchasing power parity, the gap between Brazil's 15 percent Selic rate and U.S. policy rates through interest rate parity, fiscal and commodity news and the evidence from Meese and Rogoff and Fama that short-run moves resist forecasting, then sets out what the composite Sioux Falls grain bin maker should and should not assume about the rate in its budget. Full sample paper, read it free.

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Module 3

FIN 336 Module 3 Currency Risk Assignment example

A Module Three assignment on one R$12 million invoice that a Mato Grosso cooperative will pay the composite Sioux Falls bin maker in 180 days: the unhedged outcome across five possible rates, a non-deliverable forward at 5.72, a money market hedge run through the São Paulo sales office and a purchased put on the real with a 5.80 strike, compared in a payoff table against the order's dollar costs, with a recommendation grounded in Froot, Scharfstein and Stein and Allayannis and Weston. Full sample paper, read it free.

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Module 4

FIN 336 Module 4 Project One example

Project One, submitted in Module Four, assesses Brazil as a location for the composite Sioux Falls company's first plant abroad: the farm economy that drives demand, the October 2026 elections and the long transition to a new consumption tax, public debt near three quarters of output, a 15 percent policy rate and a floating real, sovereign ratings two to three notches below investment grade and the costs of logistics and labor law, scored in a risk matrix with mitigations, using Erb, Harvey and Viskanta, Bekaert and colleagues and Cuervo-Cazurra. Full sample paper, read it free.

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Module 5

FIN 336 Module 5 International Capital Budgeting Assignment example

A Module Five assignment that values the composite Sioux Falls company's proposed R$180 million panel and dryer plant near Rondonópolis two ways, discounting real cash flows at a real rate of 13.7 percent and converting them to dollars at parity-based forecast rates before discounting at 11.5 percent, shows both reach a net present value near R$69 million or $12.7 million, then tests a weaker real, lower sales, thinner margins and a higher country premium, with Graham and Harvey, Godfrey and Espinosa and Holmén and Pramborg. Full sample paper, read it free.

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Module 6

FIN 336 Module 6 Discussion example

A Module Six post on how the composite Sioux Falls company should fund R$100 million of its Mato Grosso plant: a Brazilian bank loan near 17 percent in reais, a dollar loan near 6.5 percent raised at home and lent on to the subsidiary, or a mix with development bank equipment credit, weighed through interest rate parity, the natural hedge of matching debt to revenue, tax and creditor protection as in Desai, Foley and Hines and the pricing of local currency debt in Du and Schreger. Full sample paper, read it free.

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Module 7

FIN 336 Module 7 Project Two example

Project Two, due in Module Seven, brings the course together as a board report for the composite Sioux Falls company: the plant's value after subtracting the export margin it would replace, set against licensing the design to a Brazilian maker and a joint venture with a cooperative-linked partner, then a recommendation to build in two stages, with real-denominated borrowing for two thirds of the debt, a rolling hedge on forecast remittances, anti-bribery controls before ground is broken and milestones for the second stage, drawing on Kogut and Kulatilaka, Froot, Scharfstein and Stein and Bekaert and colleagues. Full sample paper, read it free.

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Module 8

FIN 336 Module 8 Discussion example

A closing Module Eight post on a request the composite Sioux Falls company's new Brazilian team receives: a customs broker at the port of Santos asks for an "urgency fee" in cash to release a shipment of dryer controls, with the plant's opening date at stake; the post explains why the payment is a risk under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and Brazil's Clean Company Act, what bribery does to firms according to Fisman and Svensson and Cuervo-Cazurra, what the Odebrecht settlements showed and what the company should do instead. Full sample paper, read it free.

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Using a FIN 336 sample the right way

Read a FIN 336 sample by checking the currency of every number and the rate used to convert it. When reais are discounted at a real rate and dollars at a dollar rate, and conversions follow parity-based forecasts, the analysis holds together. For FIN 336, send your case, the guidelines and the rubric, and the first custom sample is written free within 24-48h.

FIN 336 questions, answered

What does FIN 336 cover?

Multinational corporate finance: foreign exchange markets, parity conditions, currency exposure and hedging, country risk, international capital budgeting and financing and managing foreign operations.

Do I need to know FX hedging before FIN 336?

No. The course introduces forwards, options and money market hedges and asks you to compare them using quoted rates and premiums.

Is the Sioux Falls company in the FIN 336 samples real?

No. The company, its Brazilian customers and its numbers were invented so all eight modules can follow one decision; your course may use other cases.