Southwest Airlines Case Study 1. Company Overview Southwest airlines began in 1967 as a low-cost‚ low-fare‚ customer-friendly air service shuttling passengers between San Antonio‚ Dallas and Houston‚ Texas. Founded by Rollin King and Herb Kelleher‚ Southwest moved from a small commuter transport of 18 round trip flights within Texas to a bustling market share leader providing more domestic flights than any other airline within the industry. Within two years of its first flight the airline was able
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Information support for business decisions 20 March 2013 Continental Airlines Takes Off with Real-time Business Intelligence * Describe “active” data warehousing as it is applied at Continental Airlines. Does Continental apply active or real-time warehousing differently than this concept is normally described? Continental was in the beginning a disaster in doing business before Real-time IB; late flights‚ bad baggage handling and its lost‚ complaining customers because of delays‚ overbooking
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Memorandum To: Supervisor From: Date: March 14‚ 2011 Re: Leases and Lease Issues CONFIDENTIAL The trucking company currently owns 100 trailers and a new client have requested 20 more for a total of 120 trailers for its project. The relationship with the new client is uncertain but at the same time it has potential for significant growth of the company. The uncertainty of the relationship may have an effect on the financial position of the client company
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Continental Airlines Takes Off with Real-time Business Intelligence Introduction: Continental Airlines was once successfully revolution by using Business Intelligence and save it from bankrupt. Below are some items discuss how Continental Airlines implement strategies related with Business Intelligence. 1. In what ways does real-time data warehousing fit with the Continental strategy and plans? Go Forward Plan was the earliest plan that start in Continental revolution‚ and real-time data warehousing
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After establishing a unique business model in the airline industry‚ Southwest has had its fair share of imitators. Yet none of these efforts at reproducing the success of Southwest have reached expectations. There are many reasons why imitators of Southwest have struggled so much but one of the biggest is the success of Southwest’s human resource management. Southwest is able to pay its employees less than the other major airlines yet get more production out of them. This is due to Southwest’s family
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Mini Case 1: Hotel Continental By Rodriguez & Echanis Fundamentals of Management‚ Text & Philippine cases (6th Ed) Quezon City‚ Philippines: Diwata Publishing‚ Inc.‚ pp. 69 – 74 I. Personal Perspective To venture to another business as an answer to a growing demand could be an opportunity to grow and expand ones capability in handling business. There are so many nature of businesses and each requires keen knowledge if not thorough for
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Introduction Continental Carriers Inc is a trucking company which specialises in transporting general commodities. Since its establishment in 1952 the company operates within the district of the Pacific Coast and from Chicago to various points in Texas. It was noted that the company maintains an overall low debt policy‚ whereby they obtain infrequent short term loans and avoid long term debt. Furthermore with the appointment of Mr. Evans as president‚ the company became more profitable and experienced
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accounting for leases has been under scrutiny recently‚ depicted by the statement‚ “Accounting for leases under NZ IAS 17 is arbitrary and obscures economic reality”. The following issues will be further examined in the following discussion; whether the current standard faithfully reflects lease arrangements and whether it is or is not consistent with the New Zealand framework. Where the statement claims ‘NZ IAS is arbitrary’‚ the issue it raises is whether the standard faithfully reflects lease arrangements
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Operating leases are similar to renting‚ while capital leases are more like a loan. Capital leases are where a lessor transfers all the risks and benefits of ownership for a property to the lessee. An operating lease does the opposite and does not transfer all the risks and benefits to the lessee. In addition to transferring risks and benefits‚ there are other qualifications to be classified as a capital lease. The lease must contain a bargain purchase option. It has to be equal to 75% or more of
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Co Exhibit A HOTEL CONTINENTAL INCOME STATEMENT For the Years 1987-1988 Revenues 1987 1988 Rooms P 1‚969‚722.18 P 2‚515‚575.96 Food P 4‚843‚486.42 P 5‚426‚843.98 Beverage P 637‚862.39 P 684‚983.02 Laundry P 23‚070.24 P 29‚175.00 Telephone P 147‚417.16 P 175‚163.14 Swimming Pool P 156‚718.28 P 182‚718.45 Other Income P 660‚336.83 P 842‚985.15 Total Revenue
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