What is a potential impact of currency risk on ABC's international marketing of recovered metals?

• A. Currency risk has no impact on profitability.
• B. It can be managed entirely away by hedging.
• C. Currency risk can affect profitability due to exchange rate fluctuations.
• D. Currency risk only affects logistics.

Answer: (C)

Currency risk shows up when the money earned from international sales isn’t in the same currency as the costs of doing business. For ABC marketing recovered metals, exchange rate movements can change the domestic-currency value of revenues and the costs tied to those sales, squeezing or widening profit margins. If the home currency strengthens or if sales are in a weaker foreign currency, the converted profits can fall even if the actual selling price in the foreign market didn’t change. That’s why profitability can be affected by exchange-rate fluctuations.

Hedging can reduce exposure, but it doesn’t remove all of it. There are costs, timing issues, and possible mismatches between hedge instruments and cash flows, so risk isn’t entirely eliminable. That’s why the statement about profitability being affected by exchange-rate fluctuations is the most accurate overall. Currency risk matters for pricing, margins, and financial results, not just logistics, and it isn’t something that can be ignored.