MINI CASE 1 Efficient Funds Flow at Eastern Trading Company The Eastern Trading Company of Singapore purchases spices in bulk from around the world, packages them into consumer-size quantities and sells them through sales affiliates in Hong Kong, the United Kingdom and the United States. For a recent month, the payments matrix of interaffiliate cash flows (at right), stated in Singapore dollars, was forecast. Show how Eastern Trading can use multilateral netting to minimize the foreign exchange transactions necessary to settle interaffiliate payments. If foreign exchange transactions cost the company 0.5 percent, what savings result from netting? Eastern Trading Company Payments Matrix (S$000) Disbursements Hong Receipts Singapore Kong UK Singapore 40 75 Hong Kong 8 UK 15 US 11 25 9 Total disbursements 34 65 84 Total US Receipts 55 170 22 30 17 32 45 94 2 277