Financial solutions for a multinational start up in Asia. a case study of black pepper company.

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to find solutions to the financial difficulties that can arrive when setting up and managing a multinational Start-Up. These difficulties are mainly linked to exchange rates, taxation, money repatriation and accounting. This topic is of exceptional interest to the author of the paper, as he is currently involved in setting up and ruling a multinational Start-Up, Black Pepper. This company represents wineries, promote and commercialize their wines in Asia. It is based in Thailand, registered in Hong Kong and trades in several Asian countries. Its suppliers come from very diverse countries, like France, Spain, Australia or South Africa. Due to its multinational background, Black Pepper faces all kind of financial difficulties. This paper intends to give the company a tailored solution to all difficulties that the company is currently facing and to those that will most probably face in its first years of activity. The approach used in this paper is to develop first a theoretical framework based in previous articles, reviews and collected information from different sources, scientific and more business oriented, for each of the topics mentioned in the first paragraph. Subsequently, link it to the case of Black Pepper, proposing solutions that better fit the company and its situation. These recommendations were always given taking into account the goals and priorities of the enterprise in this moment and should help the company to take important financial decisions in coming years, and will probably contribute to the success of Black Pepper.