3. Why is GM worried about the ARS exposure? What operational decisions could it have made or now make to manage this exposure? (Check exhibit 12 and 13—what are the forward rates telling you? Recall that we learned that forward rates capture market expectations of future exchange rate movements? What does this mean for how expensive hedging is by this time? Indeed, this is why anticipatory risk management is so critical—when hedging a risk is the most desirable, the cost of that hedge rises substantially too. Good news is that there are some non-financial alternatives to hedging this exposure…)

Caleb construction (cc) incurs supervisor salaries expense in the construction of homes. if cc manufactures 100 homes in a year, fixed supervisor salaries will be $400,000. with the current construction supervisors, cc's productive capacity is 150 homes in a year. however, if cc is contracts to build more than 150 homes per year, it will need to hire additional supervisors, which are hired as full-time rather than temporary employees. cc's productive capacity would then become 200 homes per year, and salaries expense would increase to $470,000. how would cc’s salaries expense be properly classified? fixed variable mixed stepped curvilinear