3 credits
Fall 2025 Lecture Upper Division
The course concentrates on increasing the understanding of financial expertise in analyzing trading and hedging programs for application in reducing aviation operational risk exposure. The studies include research into the development and use of operational indexes and their possible relation to hedging with commodity and security instruments. Emphasis will be placed on the understanding of current operational measurements and correlations to trading and hedging financial instruments in providing improved risk management in operational environments.
Learning Outcomes1Propose and defend an analysis using operational data, trading, and hedging programs to reduce financial and operational risk in a specific business area in airline operations.
2Collect, assess, organize, and present the relationships between operational data, financial data, and commodity volatility.
3Develop and present the impact of complexity on airline business operations.
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made by Purdue students.