Question:Which of the following risks would normally be classified as strategic risks for a company trading overseas, which has contracted its manufacturing operations to a foreign manufacturer?
  A. A failure by the overseas manufacturer to supply finished goods in time for the peak sales season
  B. The exhaustion of oil supplies in the country that has been supplying the company with all its oil
  C. A change in a foreign government leading to nationalisation of the company's interests in that country
  D. A temporary fall in the value of the company's home country currency
  The correct answers are: A change in a foreign government leading to nationalisation of the company's interests in that country; The exhaustion of oil supplies in the country that has been supplying the company with all its oil.
  A temporary fall in the value of the company's home country currency and a failure by the overseas manufacturer to supply finished goods in time for the peak sales season are examples of operational risks.