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CIMA SCS past questions: Currency risk

Every sub-task on currency risk set in the Strategic Case Study pre-seens we cover, summarised in our own words.

Sub-tasks
5
Sittings
3 of 3
Exam variants
4 of 18
Last set
Nov 2025 & Feb 2026

Mostly filed under core activity B (Evaluate business ecosystem and business environment). Syllabus: F3 C, financial risks. These are patterns from past exams, not a forecast: CIMA can test any part of the syllabus.

Nov 2025 & Feb 2026 · Cewmlator

Every task set for Cewmlator

Electric vehicles · CIMA's post-exam materials

  • V5 · Task 1(b)Core activity B: Ecosystem and environment

    Effect of a strengthening foreign currency on the company's ability to trade.

May & Aug 2025 · Leothayre

Every task set for Leothayre

Satellites · CIMA's post-exam materials

  • V3 · Task 1(b)Core activity B: Ecosystem and environment

    Responses to currency transaction risks on launch costs, receipts and monthly fees.

  • V6 · Task 2(b)Core activity B: Ecosystem and environment

    Two ways to manage currency risk on a payment to an overseas supplier.

Nov 2024 & Feb 2025 · Rotomyne

Every task set for Rotomyne

Lithium mining · CIMA's post-exam materials

  • V6 · Task 1(a)Core activity B: Ecosystem and environment

    Challenges in understanding economic currency risk.

  • V6 · Task 1(b)Core activity D: Risk

    For and against accepting economic currency risk rather than mitigating it.

How we'd mark one

The past task

Managing currency risk on a payment

SCS · May & Aug 2025 · Leothayre · V6 · Task 2(b) · Core activity B (Ecosystem and environment)

Two ways to manage currency risk on a payment to an overseas supplier.

Practise it in Eighty Marks

Euro contract: choosing how to hedge · Currency risk · set in Vennlisk

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Illustrative example

75 / 150

PASS LINE 80 · BELOW

  • Technical understandingGood: forward contract and option explained
  • Use of the informationNeeds work: payment timing not used
  • Application to the scenarioFair: treasury team named
  • CommunicationFair: choice made

Fix first: Use the payment date and amount to show which hedge fits, instead of describing both in general.

Sample: an invented mark to show the shape of our feedback, not a real student's. Our marks follow CIMA's published 2026–27 marking approach. They are a practice estimate to help you improve, not an official CIMA mark or a prediction of your result.

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