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...objectives in the most efficient way possible. That is, they must determine how funds from the marketplace (e.g. lenders, investors) can be attracted to a particular venture at the least possible cost. This is typically a very complicated question, and one that we face all the time at Disney due to the unique nature and enormous growth of the various businesses. Building theme parks and hotels and making movies are capital-intensive and often risky enterprises, qualities which make their financing especially important. Disney's financial success and international appeal, moreover, have opened avenues of financing which many coporations...
Given our strong position in the entertainment industry and global financial centers, Treasury has pursued innovative ways to increase shareholder value in the financings of theme parks on three continents and of the films produced under the Disney, Touchstone and Hollywood Pictures labels. We have pioneered the use of international souces of funds, structured deals around complex accounting and tax regulations, and shared the business' returns with individual and institutional investors...
...maximization of these returns within prudent investment guidelines is the focus of cash and investment management. Generally speaking, Treasury is able to invest the company's funds aggressively because of Disney's healthy financial standing and its strong appeal on Wall Street. Managing a short-term portfolio of considerable size, Treasury plays an active role in the equity, fixed-income and other financial markets. While outperforming the rate of return of most market indices, Treasury also trades in derivative financial instruments. Despite the growing efficiency of worldwide markets, Treasury has in the past year still found means of arbitraging...
Since joining Disney as a treasury analyst after graduation, I have experienced a terrific introduction to a career in finance by being part of imaginative and enterprising deals like those mentioned above. More than anything, it has been an educational experience and one taught by those on the cutting edge of finance. As part of the first analyst class hired into the Treasury department, I have been especially fortunate in the amount of contact I have had with more senior levels of management within the department and throughout the company...
...chief responsibilities have been in foreign exchange. The principal goal of "FX", as it is frequently called, is to maximize the earnings of the company's international operations given the volatility of exchange rates. The difficulty that we face lies in the frustration that even when Disney's business is rapidly expanding abroad, more French francs, German marks and Japanese yen might not necessarily mean more dollars (which is ultimately what counts to an American company) if exchange rates are moving in an undesirable direction...