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Hedging and Airline Profitability

be used for a number of reasons, Corman (1996) notes that there are potential benefits to managing Cash flow for some hedging prac...

A Quantitative Study of Airline Profitability and Fuel Hedging

paragraph helps the student provide an overview of the issue of fuel hedging. Hedging, as a generality, is a common investment tac...

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...

Airline Fuel Hedging - A Definition of Terms

(Howells and Bain, 2007). Forwards Forwards are the oldest and perhaps the simplest type of derivative. The contract consists of ...

Accounting Standards and Hedging

price at a set point in time. This takes out the risk as the firm then knows what they are going to pay for the good they need. If...

The Results of an Investigation into the Impact on Hedging on Airline Profit

reviewing some of the important issues in the literature which have guiding the way that the data was collected and analyzed. Foll...

Why Should the Fund Management Industry Welcome the Use of Hedge Funds?

they can enjoy a growth period and their presence may also help stimulate general investment fund purchases. There has been...

A Proposal for a Hotel Project

the YTL Corporation Berhad conglomerate. The parent company has a range of interests, from power generating companies and construc...

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...

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 ...

Oil Prices and Airline Budgets

of hedging and how the airline will fare will depend partly on the type of instrument they use (Flottau & Wall, 2008). This is a g...

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...

Customer Satisfaction/Profitability v. Production & Quality

A 12 page research paper that explores the topic of customer satisfaction and how it is related to both profitability and product/...

Activity Based Accounting and its Uses

costs and activity based costing may identify which type of furniture sales are the most attractive and any that may be creating l...

Easton Bell Inc., Dealing With Forgiven Currency Exchange Rate Risks

are able to manage the supply chain to obtain lower prices on the goods that they sell. A master of this has been Nike with the ou...

Eco Mining Company Case Study

costs involved (Bartram, 2008). The use of forwards may not be limited to the sale of the contracts where a firm has a high leve...

Forwards and Other Financial Tools

the company will no longer be exposed to a potential fall ion the exchange rate which would mean that the company would gain less ...

Currency Hedging

closed, or the use of hedging is put into place. Therefore hedging is a tool used to protect a position where a trader or company ...

Fuel Hedging and Airlines - Are the costs Greater than the Benefits?

questions to be addressed with the research is to assess whether or not it is in the interests of the shareholders, assuming they ...

Is There a Correlation between the Profitability and Practice of Hedging in Airlines?

of market conditions at the times airlines do not need to utilize fuel. Brooks and Carter et al. (2006) observed that hedging pra...

Theories Useful in Assessing the Motivation to Hedge

Hedging is a form of risk management, the writer looks at a number of different theoretical ideas which may be used to assess why ...

The Value of Fuel Hedging in Small to Medium Airlines

that the organization can ensure that they continue to purchase fuel at the current rate, even if the actual market value of the c...

How Firms Use Hedging Tools

The writer looks at the way a firm can protect itself from exposure to risk by using hedging tools. The use of currency purchases...

Research Method to Assess a Potentials Link Between Hedging and Profit in the Aviation Industry

The writer proposes a research method to collect data from airlines to determine if airlines that hedge are more profitable compa...

Hedge Funds

leverage the fund, while this may occur, it is severely limited. These restrictions are not in place with a hedge fund, the only r...

Hedge Funds

leverage the fund, while this may occur, it is severely limited. These restrictions are not in place with a hedge fund, the only r...

Hedging as a Practical Consideration

In eleven pages this paper discusses how hedging to enhance profits or reduce dealing risks may be used by international companies...

Yen Financing of Tokyo Disney

a noticeable impact on performance and should be hedged" (What is Currency Overlay?). In Disneys case in the mid-1980s, the...

A Financial Analysis of Apple Computer, Inc.

In five pages this paper discusses company profitability through the maximizing of stock prices while minimizing risk and includes...

Pricing and Channel Development

a profitability of 5.35 percent, exceeding targets on both measures. Concepts This simulation demonstrates the critical poi...