On Qantas
Student name: Wenhui YIN (Phoebe)
Student number: 34987
Class: BAE12
Date of submission: 21 January 2015
Word count: 1083
Table of contents
Executive summary: 1
1 Introduction 2
2 Evaluation of ethical performance 2
2.1 Carbon- credit program 2
2.2 Aviation Fuel Study 3
3 Evaluation of financial performance 5
3.1 Profitability 5
4 Conclusion and Recommendations 6
Reference 8
Executive summary:
The aim of this report is to provide reasonable advice to the client who has interest in ethical investing in Qantas via analyzing its ethical and financial performances. First, the report evaluates Qantas on ethical performances which focus on environmental pollution, and it shows that Qantas performs well by following a Carbon- credit program and an Aviation Fuel Study. Then the report analyses the gross profit over the past 5 years by a figure which shows that the gross profit follows a trend of decline. Finally, the report recommends that Qantas is not a good choice for ethical investing in the next few years.
1 Introduction
Ethic is not only a personal concern, and it has become an important factor that investors would consider before investing. The purpose of this report is to evaluate Qantas ethical performances which focus on environmental pollution and financial performances which base on profitability and to help the client to make ethical investment decisions. Ethical investing can be described as an investment process that investors, who make investment decisions, focus on both the achievement of a financial return and ethical issues, including environmental and social factors (Hudson 2005, pp.641-657). Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited (Qantas) was founded in the Queensland in 1920 and now it has become the largest domestic and international airline in Australia with more than 30,000 employees (Qantas 2015). This company operates many brands, such as Qantas Link and Jetstar (Qantas 2015). The