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paragraph helps the student provide an overview of the issue of fuel hedging. Hedging, as a generality, is a common investment tac...
be used for a number of reasons, Corman (1996) notes that there are potential benefits to managing Cash flow for some hedging prac...
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. ...
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 writer looks at potential research designs to assess which would be most appropriate for research into financial performance o...
simply stopped hedging, as seen with US Air, others changed the way in which they undertook hedging, shifting from hedging for fu...
numerical, it is suitable to be used as a method of determining cause and effect relationships (Curwin and Slater, 2007). The meth...
were gathered and analyzed statistically using Tobins Q ratio approach. The research did not only look at the difference between t...
vary, Morrell and Swann (2006) estimates fuel accounts for 15% of an airlines costs, noting it is not only a major cost, but also ...
This 3 page paper designs a questionnaire which may be used as the basis for a structured interview or self competing survey looki...
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...
of market conditions at the times airlines do not need to utilize fuel. Brooks and Carter et al. (2006) observed that hedging pra...
airline operating costs. Increasing costs can have a significant impact on the profitability of a firm; this has been particula...
(Howells and Bain, 2007). Forwards Forwards are the oldest and perhaps the simplest type of derivative. The contract consists of ...
reviewing some of the important issues in the literature which have guiding the way that the data was collected and analyzed. Foll...
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 writer proposes a research method to collect data from airlines to determine if airlines that hedge are more profitable compa...
that the organization can ensure that they continue to purchase fuel at the current rate, even if the actual market value of the c...
industry (Hashim and Shunmugan, 2009), Morrell and Swan (2006) argue that up to 15% of costs are accounted for by fuel, five years...
Mintzberg et al, 1998). Successful and effective risk management may even be the source of a competitive advantage (Rose, 2001, P...
questions to be addressed with the research is to assess whether or not it is in the interests of the shareholders, assuming they ...
Clark E; Lukas E, (2008, Nov), Hedging mean-reverting commodities, retrieved http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=12...
theory with grand theoretical systems, when talking of psychology cites psychoanalysis and behavorism as grand theories. Here ther...
means that even in years where many airlines faced losses and even bankruptcy, Southwest Airlines remained profitable, with hedgin...
In five pages this report examines Southwest Airlines' success in a consideration of shareholder investment returns, performance o...
they can enjoy a growth period and their presence may also help stimulate general investment fund purchases. There has been...
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 YTL Corporation Berhad conglomerate. The parent company has a range of interests, from power generating companies and construc...
all senior level managers and executives are expected to get out in the field to talk with employees. Added to all of this,...
A 12 page research paper that explores the topic of customer satisfaction and how it is related to both profitability and product/...