SEARCH RESULTS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

means that even in years where many airlines faced losses and even bankruptcy, Southwest Airlines remained profitable, with hedgin...

theory with grand theoretical systems, when talking of psychology cites psychoanalysis and behavorism as grand theories. Here ther...

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

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

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

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

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

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. ...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

spirit, that the company regrouped, restructured and in many instances showing a profit despite the ongoing hostilities with bin L...

trying to compete. The use will be limited as the company is not in direct competition. The airline is used in many examples of st...

demand Demand 200,000 150,000 25 Price 20 15 25 Elasticity 1.00 Table 2 Elasticity in 2002 Old amount New amount % change in de...

in the triple constraints these can impact greatly on the baseline of a project. Cost is a major issue, projects need to come in o...