Accounting Operating income it typically defined to include all operating expenses other than depreciation and taxes (Investopedia, 2011). Because the airplanes are leased, there is no depreciation for West Coast Airlines to take into consideration anyway. The operating income is as follows: Revenue AVG Passengers Variable fuel Revenue/pass Food & Beverage F&B/pass Fixed Lease Ground Services Flight Crew Operating Income The company right now is losing $31,012.50 on every one-way flight to Fiji. If the company lowers the cost of the flight in

Ratios are one way to help assess the relative financial strength of an organization. Just as there are numerous ways that organizations can be organized, there are numerous different ratios that can be used to evaluate an organization's working capital and cash. Richard Loth breaks these various ratios into six different broad categories: liquidity measurement ratios, profitability indicator ratios, debt ratios, operating performance ratios, cash flow indicator ratios, and investment

Coping strategy four: Taking public transportation Taking public transportation will have a more significant income effect than simply trying to drive less or foregoing vehicle maintenance. This will enable the individual to 'opt out' of the increased gas prices. This will enable him or her to spend more money on goods and services, but given the fact that other prices are often affected by gas prices, the prices overall in the

Walmart is one of the world's largest, most successful, and most vilified corporations. – Art Carden, 2010 Introduction Today, Walmart is the largest company in the world with more than 11,500 retail units in 28 countries, annual sales exceeding $288 billion and 2.2 million employees called “associates” (Walmart corporate and financial facts, 2015). In addition, Walmart is one the largest private employers in both the United States and Canada (Walmart corporate and

conflict of interest is at the core of nearly every ethical dilemma. A conflict of interest, simply put, is a situation in which the decision maker has two or more competing interests. Market timing, late trading, insider trading, illegal trading, fraud, partial disclosure, non-disclosure...the manifestation of conflicts of interest is seemingly endless. The business landscape today is a minefield of ethical disasters, some of which have already occurred, some

Income Statments Home Depot, Lowe's and the British company Wolseley are three of the major companies in the building materials retailing industry. This paper will compare the revenues of these three companies over the past five years to gain a sense of how they have been performing. The prevailing economic conditions have been negative for the industry, since the industry is heavily dependent on the health of the housing market (Isidore,