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Alternative Fuels

as a "waste" product of combustion. Electric battery power was touted some years ago, though the early models treated only ...

The Airline Industry; Economic Analysis

This is a global phenomenon. This increase can be seen in terms of both freight and passengers. Here we can see a comparison in th...

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...

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...

Styles of Leadership and Southwest Airlines

all senior level managers and executives are expected to get out in the field to talk with employees. Added to all of this,...

Purchasing at Proton

and Vietnam. There is an engineering consultancy lead by Lotus, which has offices in the UK, Germany, China and Malaysia. In addit...

Fuel Cells

An 8 page paper discussing the economics and problems of hydrogen fuel cells as power plants for cars. Jay Leno praises the BMW H...

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...

Qantas Early Development

Arthur Baird joined the pair - McMaster as a source of funding and a link to wealthy potential investors, Baird as aircraft mechan...

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 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...

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...

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...

Airline Case Study; Correlation between Age and Maintenance Costs

maintenance costs does not mean it is always true, and as such it needs to be assessed whether or not it is true in this case. Not...

Strategy for Emirates Airline

as a top airline due to its geography and technology with the only factors hampering its further growth and global impact being ca...

Airline Industry Trends

information systems. Even with these techniques, Zea (2002) argues that airlines in general have done little to manage risk...

Southeast Asia Airlines

is an important topic when reviewing any region. Airlines are again, an important part of the transportation sector and something ...

Airline Industry After Terrorist Attacks of 2001

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

Southwest Airlines' Economic Indicators

worldwide as passengers expressed fear of flying as never before. Southwest suffered less than most in the short term. Alw...

Economic Profile : Airline Industry

of airline tickets affects the demand. Rubin and Joy (2005) reported that the demand elasticity for leisure travel is 2.4, which i...

Strategic Performance Measurement for Purchasing and Supply

chose a diverse range of companies that could be used as sources data, the choice was of fifteen companies all that were in the fo...

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...

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...

Motivation for the Purchase of Cosmetic Surgery

are extremely important. The purchase of plastic surgery is undertaken by men and women, but the main target market remains women...

Consumers Buying and Decision Making Processes in the Fashion Industry

used. Probability sampling is a more random sampling style; the basis of this is that the selection of each respondent is a matter...

Research Proposal to Examine Buyer Behavior for Internet Purchases

The writer presents a research proposal to examine and explore the way consumers making purchases on the Internet makes the decisi...

Kids' Buying Power

In five pages children under the age of 18 and their purchasing power are examined in terms of population data along with their in...

Low and High Involvement and the Process of Making Purchase Decisions

In five pages this paper discusses the process of decision making when it involves making a purchase with low and high involvement...

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...