Airline Management Finance The Essentials

Airline Management Finance: The Essentials is of significant benefit to airline industry practitioners seeking a focused, neatly contained and accessible resource that provides explicit financial information pertinent to their current or future role. The book explains and demystifies an airline’s financing and the financial reporting of its operations to airline staff and others. It seeks to explain the role of finance and the Finance Department in a non-technical way, so staff can appreciate the value of the department and its information resources, and see finance as an active contributor to the airline’s operation. It concentrates on practical matters, explaining frequently used financial and accounting terms, how financial strategy works, the uses of various types of financial reporting, as well as what financial risk is and how it can be managed through the co-operation of finance and operating staff. Staff who understand the airline’s finances and financial system are more likely to make decisions which align with the airline’s strategy and objectives. They will also know how to use the financial information which is available. The book establishes a good foundation of financial knowledge for all staff. This book is recommended reading for new employees in airline finance and related areas, as well as those starting to move up the supervisory ladder in an airline.

Introduction 1 The Finance Department: what it does and how it fits into an airline’s organisation 2 Financial strategy: why a financial strategy is needed, what it looks like and how it is decided 3 Financing the airline 4 Financial risk management 5 Managing the airline’s financial position 6 Managing the airline’s money 7 Planning and forecasting 8 Financial reporting 9 Future reporting

Victor Hughes is a Chartered Management Accountant who spent most of his career in asset-intensive industries and was Finance Director on the board of Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. Victor designed and tutored an Aviation Financial Management course at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.