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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...

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...

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...

Case Study of Nortel

In eleven pages this Nortel case study examines the internal and external performance of share prices and also considers how the c...

Spain, United States, and Currency Risk Factors

In twelve pages this paper discusses the Euro membership of Spain, hedging, and risk factors as they apply to U.S. and Spain's cur...

Case Study on International Exchange Rates and Interest Rates

In five pages a student submitted case study examines borrowing on different global markets that have different rates of interest ...

AC Tractor and International Finance

In eight pages this paper examines the 1980s' currency hedging of this manufacturer of tractors in a consideration of its practice...

Inflation and Gold as a Hedging Tool

In twenty three pages this paper assesses the hedging tool suitability of gold to combat contemporary inflation with gold prices, ...

Managing Risk at Southwest Airlines

fuel surcharges and look for ways increasing income, such as charging for checked luggage. Southwest are managing this financial r...

Aspen Technology Inc Case Study

fees over the period of the license which complies with the matching concept in accounting. It may be argued that there was an imp...

Currency Risk Management at McDonald's

and deal in the commodities that the company uses, such as orange juice. Mr. Pfaucht explains that he has to fully understa...

3 Questions on Investment

high. If we look at the position over the period of the devaluation the price would have been set with an assumed value of 200 f...

Hedging and Exchange Rates Risks

ability of Australian companies to pay their debts and interest payments as a weak dollar would escalate the level, of debt. This ...

Financial Challenges for Multinational Companies

financial stakeholders" (Lloyds, 2006). This is a god summary of many of the challenges that a company in the international enviro...

International Financial Tools

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Airline Profability and Fuel Hedging: An Analytical Look

to the airlines: they have to buy the fuel at the agreed upon rate regardless of what happens to the actual market value of fuel. ...

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...

AMD and Intel Exchange Rate Exposure

but the risk types that may be hedged are both investments as well as debts, the tools used tend to be forward contracts for the c...

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...