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Theory and Practice in Airline Fuel Hedging

one of these concepts represents a total image of the truth of theory. Rather, a synthetic view of theory developed from exploring...

Is There a Relationship between the Profitability Levels of Airlines and the Practice of Fuel Hedging?

vary, Morrell and Swann (2006) estimates fuel accounts for 15% of an airlines costs, noting it is not only a major cost, but also ...

Theory of Constraints (ToC)and Use to Assess the Value of Hedging

The theory of constraints is examined as a suitable theory to be used in an assessment of the value of airline fuel hedging and t...

Designing a Questionnaire to Asses the Value of Hedging in the Aviation Industry

This 3 page paper designs a questionnaire which may be used as the basis for a structured interview or self competing survey looki...

Measurements and Variables Relevant for Assessing the Link Between Hedging Practices and Profit

were gathered and analyzed statistically using Tobins Q ratio approach. The research did not only look at the difference between t...

Primary Research on Hedging

approach to research. The suitability of any research design may be assessed in terms of the viability, robustness and validity of...

Sources for a Research Project Assessing Any Correlation between Firm Value and Hedging in the Airline Industry

Clark E; Lukas E, (2008, Nov), Hedging mean-reverting commodities, retrieved http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=12...

Should Airlines Hedge their Fuel Purchases?

the firm to the relevant stakeholders (Chyssides and Kaler, 1998). When looking at the way airlines in particular operate prote...

Kraft Annual Accounts - Hedging

price, or having paid for an option contract that they will not use. Kraft notes that they do not hedge against all commodity pric...

The Effect of Fuel Hedging on Airline Profits

in a good position, because it will have hedged for a lower price than the fuel is now actually worth. On the contrary, if the pri...

The Benefits and Problems of Fair Value Accounting

against concepts such as the historic accounting concept and the matching. In many cases the assets are not there to be sold. The ...

Quantitative, Qualitative and Mixed Method Proposal for Financial Research

the hedging category for the years in which undertook hedging. The results may be correlated to see if there is a snippet differen...

Research Design for a Financial Project

The writer looks at potential research designs to assess which would be most appropriate for research into financial performance o...

Profitability and Hedging

years (if any) has fuel hedging taken place (classified by the maturely date of the hedge tool), and what percentage of fuel was h...

Profit and Hedging in the Airline Industry

industry (Hashim and Shunmugan, 2009), Morrell and Swan (2006) argue that up to 15% of costs are accounted for by fuel, five years...

The Value of Power Analysis for Qualitative Research

simply stopped hedging, as seen with US Air, others changed the way in which they undertook hedging, shifting from hedging for fu...

Research Considerations for an Assessment of the Impact of Hedging on the Profit of Airlines

numerical, it is suitable to be used as a method of determining cause and effect relationships (Curwin and Slater, 2007). The meth...

Microfinance Funds and the Mitigation of Exchange Rate Risk

the funds to risk in addition to those expected within investments, such as business risks, there are also political risks that te...

International Financial Tools

in one market, such as political instability, economic problems, changes in interest rates or concerns regarding inflation as well...

Fuel Hedging and Profit

airline operating costs. Increasing costs can have a significant impact on the profitability of a firm; this has been particula...

How will Yum! Brands and WalMart Be Impacted by a Change in the Yuan Exchange Rate

a further 20% this will have a financial impact on US firms, the impact will depend on the type of transactions undertaken by the ...

The Dollar and Sterling - Exchange Rate Fluctuations and Management

The writer looks at the value of the British Pound against the US dollar at three different dates. The patters are assessed and ad...

Derivatives and How They Should Be Used

of any producer are monitored carefully by commodity traders. The volatility of prices in general does not have a great deal of ef...

Mortgage Companies and SFAS 133's Effects

who the company is, the impact may be ascertained. The accounts that were prepared January 2001 use SFAS 133, which means that t...

Exchange Risk Exposure and International Trade

be a need to determine how to limit or constrain risk. There are several ways this may be undertaken. The first is to trade only i...

Eight Business Concepts and Definitions

as a chicken payment for a sack of potatoes, but it may also take place in a far more complex setting, such as the use of a commun...

2 Trade Textbooks on Investment and Mathematics Reviewed

view this formula as an effective means of reducing vulnerability to the financial insecurity which so frequently results in the r...

Acme Sales Finance

Here, she gives some insight into her current role and the form that leadership takes in managing Acmes financial affairs. The Int...

Global Financial Risk Management

is the determination of the exchange rates. For most countries there are floating exchange rates, this means that the value of the...

Derivatives and Airline Risk Management

Mintzberg et al, 1998). Successful and effective risk management may even be the source of a competitive advantage (Rose, 2001, P...