Question

a US Company, has a 100% owned subsidiary in Japan. The functional currency for the subsidiary is the Japanese yen. The Japanese subsidiary purchases merchandise on credit from a Swiss company, with payment due in US dollars. Between the date of purchase and the due date of the payable, the swiss franc strengthens against the US dollar and the Japanese yen weakens against the US dollar. What will be the result to Juno

Answer 1

What will happen is that the credit, taken from a Swiss company in US dollars, will become more costly due to the depreciation against the Swiss France.

However, the weakening of the Japanese Yen against the U.S. dollar may benefit the Japanese subsidiary if it is involved primarily in exports, because the cheaper yen will make its products more attractive to American customers, and probably also to other customers around the globe.