was a record $754 million, or $1.05 per diluted share, including special items (primarily noncash, mark-to-market, and other items required for a portion of the Company’s fuel hedge portfolio, as well as costs associated with the acquisition and integration of AirTran). Excluding special items1, our 2013 profits were also a record, increasing 93 percent year-over-year to $805 million, or $1.12 per diluted share. Our annual pre-tax return on invested capital, excluding special items (ROIC), was 13.1
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Pass-Through Effect of RMB Exchange Rate on China’s Inflation Contents Chapter 2 Literature review 3 2.1 Introduction 3 2.2 Exchange rate pass-through effect 3 2.2.1 Narrowly defined exchange rate pass-through effect 3 2.2.2 Broadly defined exchange rate pass-through effect 4 2.2.3 Complete and incomplete exchange rate pass-through 5 2.3 Relevant theories of exchange rate pass-through 7 2.3.1 Theory of complete exchange rate pass-through 7 2.3.2 Theory of incomplete pass-through 9
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hotel which was later branded as Crowne Plaza under a franchise agreement in 1999. But suffered losses and had to sell a share to external player. House of Tata – Acquiring a Global Footprint Thus they shifted to the strategy of management contracts with small equity positions rather than outright ownership 3 4. Tata Tea and TETLEY Tata Tea had been a commodity tea producer, acquired Tetley at a staggering £271
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net income was $178 million, or $.23 per diluted share, including special items (primarily noncash, mark-to-market, and other items required for a portion of the Company’s fuel hedge portfolio, as well as costs associated with the acquisition and integration of AirTran). Excluding special items, our 2011 profit was $330 million, or $.43 per diluted share. Our financial position remains strong. Our cash and short-term investments were $3.1 billion, as of December 31, 2011, in addition to a fully-available
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Seventh Edition Accounting for Decision Making and Control Jerold L. Zimmerman University of Rochester To: Conner, Easton, and Jillian ACCOUNTING FOR DECISION MAKING AND CONTROL, SEVENTH EDITION Published by McGraw-Hill, a business unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020. Copyright © 2011 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Previous editions © 2009, 2006, and 2003. No part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed
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of TH True Milk 28 CHAPTER 3: SOLUTIONS TO IMPROVE THE DISTRIBUTION CHANNEL IN DAIRY INDUSTRY 32 3.1 MEASURES TO IMPROVE THE EFFICENCY OF DISTRIBUTION CHANNEL 32 3.1.1 Product solutions: 32 3.1.2. Solutions for price: 35 3.2 SOME PROPOSED PRICING STRATEGY FOR VINAMILK 37
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Introduction Starbucks started in 1971 as a single store in Seattle’s historic Pike Place Market. It offered fresh-roasted whole bean coffees in the store. There is a group of coffee lovers which shared a passion for quality coffee and exotic teas included English teacher Jerry Baldwin, history teacher Zev Siegel, and writer Gordon Bowker, they put investment and finally opened a store called “Starbucks Coffee, Tea, and Spice” in Seattle, WA. In 1981, Howard Schultz (Starbucks chairman, president
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Seventh Edition Accounting for Decision Making and Control Jerold L. Zimmerman University of Rochester To: Conner, Easton, and Jillian ACCOUNTING FOR DECISION MAKING AND CONTROL, SEVENTH EDITION Published by McGraw-Hill, a business unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020. Copyright © 2011 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Previous editions © 2009, 2006, and 2003. No part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed
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TOPIC 1: MARKET STRUCTURE AND MARKET POWER 1.1. Competitors Anyone that produces a substitute for a firm’s product. - Cross price elasticity: Measures the substitution degree of a product for another. P.E.>1 – The demand is elastic, a change in price is reflected as an even major change in demand. The extent of the variation is higher as higher is the substitution degree of a product for another. We can say two firms are competing when a price increase by one firm, drives its customers to the other
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Exploring Excellence PGDM (GM) (GMP 2013–14) AN AICTE APPROVED FLAGSHIP FULL-TIME MBA PROGRAM FOR EXPERIENCED PROFESSIONALS E-brochure http://www.placementkloud.com/xlrigmp 01 02 03 04 05 06 08 10 12 14 16 MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR Learning and growth are vital for a healthy environment in organizations. We at XLRI have structured our programmes in such a manner as to equip the future managers of tomorrow with learning, competencies and skills that can significantly contribute to
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