Amol Dhargalkar spoke with CFO Dive on hedging as inflation rises
Summary
CFO Dive spoke with Amol Dhargalkar about how companies can still devise a hedging strategy to protect their businesses from price volatility as inflation rises.
CFO DiveInflation has caught many companies off guard but it’s not too late to devise a hedging strategy or revisit the one you have to manage price volatility, Chatham Financial Managing Partner Amol Dhargalkar told CFO Dive.
Dhargalkar details the kinds of risks that corporates need to hedge against, including manufacturing and cloud software. He also reminds readers that communicating your hedging strategy to investors is nearly as important as the strategy itself. “If your program is small and your company is big, you can do things without having to explain them too much to investors, because it takes a very tiny portion of your financial results and line items,” he said. But if the programs are material, “you don’t want investors to look at your derivatives and start worrying, is this company doing the right thing?”
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