Singapore Airlines (SIA) is a member of Star Alliance. SIA’s passenger route network is covering 35 countries in 65 destinations. The company and its subsidiaries have 98 destinations which are covering Asia, Europe, North America, Middle East, southwest Pacific and Africa. This case study addresses the key strategic issues through a set of analysis tools to evaluate the strategic management pe...

PURPOSE to examine the combined effect of cohabitation status and social participation, respectively, and socioeconomic position on onset of mobility limitations in a prospective study among older Danes. DESIGN AND METHODS logistic regression analyses with combined exposure variables were performed in a study population of 2,839 older men and women from the Danish Intervention Study on Preven...

INTRODUCTION Financial stress is an important source of distress and is related to poor mental and physical health outcomes. The present study investigated whether tangible social support could buffer the effect of financial stress on psychological and psychosomatic health. METHODS Two separate postal surveys were sent to random samples in five counties in Sweden in 2004 and 2008, with a tota...

BACKGROUND A public hospital in New Mexico required collection of 50% of estimated costs prior to elective surgeries for self-pay patients. This study assesses the impact of this policy on access to elective surgical procedures. METHODS Chi-square tests determined if there was a statistically significant difference between the number of self-pay and insured patient cancellations for financial...

In the context of the current financial crisis, when more companies are facing bankruptcy or insolvency, the paper aims to find methods to identify distressed firms by using financial ratios. The study will focus on identifying a group of Romanian listed companies, for which financial data for the year 2008 were available. For each company a set of 14 financial indicators was calculated and the...

The success of dotcoms has been short lived. Within a short span of a few years the dotcoms experienced a meteoric rise and suffered a dramatic fall. This research is a support vector machine based investigation of dotcoms from a financial perspective. Data from the financial statements of survived and failed dotcoms are collected and 24 financial ratios are computed. The financial ratios are a...

This paper explores the effectiveness of Data Mining (DM) classification techniques in detecting firms that issue fraudulent financial statements (FFS) and deals with the identification of factors associated to FFS. In accomplishing the task of management fraud detection, auditors could be facilitated in their work by using data mining techniques. This study investigates the usefulness of Decis...

We show that weather-related natural disasters in the United States significantly weaken financial stability of banks with business activities affected regions. This is reflected higher probabilities default, lower z-scores, non-performing assets ratios, foreclosure returns on and equity ratios years following a disaster. The effects are economically relevant highlight vulnerability their borro...

The balanced scorecard has proved itself as a valuable strategic tool in measuring not only the financial performance, but also the customer focus, internal business processes and learning and growth of a company. To date, very little has been done to incorporate new breakthroughs in financial management in the financial perspective of the balanced scorecard. In this study, new trends in financ...