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Essay Instructions: JETBLUE AIRLINE BUSSINESS LEVEL STRATEGY:
-EXPLAIN HOW JETBLUE IS USING BOTH DIFFERENTIATION AND COST LEADERSHIP AS THEIR BUSSINESS LEVEL STRATEGY, EXPLAIN HOW THE COMPANY IS USING THEIR SERVICE QUALITY, INNOVATIONS, RESPOSIVNESS TO CUTOMERS, AND EFFECIENCY TO GAIN A COMPETITVE ADVANTAGE.
-DOES THE COMPANY HAVE A COMPETITIVE ADVANTGE? IS THE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE DURABLE? IF THE COMPANY DOES HAVE A COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE EXPLAIN WHY, AND IF NOT EXPLAIN WHY

Essay Instructions: JetBlue Airways

The questions in this exercise are based on JetBlue Airways Corporation. To answer the questions, you will need to download JetBlue?s 10-K/A (http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1158463//a2153142z10-ka.htm) for the year ended December 31, 2004 (10K/A with a filing date of March 8, 2005). You do not need to print the 10-K/A to answer the questions.

Required:

? What is JetBlue?s strategy for success in the marketplace? Does the company rely primarily on a customer intimacy, operational excellence, or product leadership customer value proposition? What evidence supports your conclusion?

? What business risks does JetBlue face that may threaten the company?s ability to satisfy stockholder expectations? What are some examples of control activities that the company could use to reduce these risks? (Hint: Focus on pages 17-23 of the 10-K/A.)

? How can the concept of unit-level activities be applies to an airline? More specifically, what are two examples of unit-level activities for JetBlue? What steps has JetBlue taken to manage these unit-level activities more efficiently?

? How can the concept of batch-level activities be applied to an airline? What are two examples of batch-level activities for JetBlue? What steps has JetBlue taken to manage these batch-level activities more efficiently?

? What is one example of a customer-level activity and an organization-sustaining activity for JetBlue?

Essay Instructions: In order to understand activity-based costing and how it differs from a traditional costing system, you will review and analyze JetBlue airways Form 10-K report. To access the report, go to Hoovers Online at: www.hoovers.com . Once in the website, enter JetBlue Airways in the search box. Click on the matching name and then click on the link called SEC filings (under more pages).

Download the 2004 10-K report filed on 2/11/04 (Note: start your search for this filing on page 45). In an 8-10 page paper, analyze JetBlue's strategy. The following concepts should be covered in your paper:

1. What is JetBlue's strategy for success in the marketplace? Does the company rely on customer intimacy, operational excellence, or product leadership customer value proposition? Use evidence to support your conclusion.

2. What business risks does JetBlue face that may threaten the company's ability to satisfy stockholder expectations? What are some examples of control activities that the company could use to reduce these risks? (Hint: Focus on pages 17-23 of the 10-k.)

3. How can the concept of unit-level activities be applied to an airline? More specifically, what are two examples of unit-level activities for JetBlue? What steps has JetBlue taken to manage these unit-level activities more efficiently?

4. How can the concept of batch-level activities be applied to an airline? What are two examples of batch-level activities for JetBlue? What steps has JetBlue taken to manage these batch-level activities more efficiently?

5. What is one example of a customer-level activity and an organization-sustaining activity for JetBlue?

6. Give an example of a transactions driver and a duration driver that could be used to assign fuel costs to a particular flight departure. Which of the two activity measures would be more accurate and why?

Please show all accounting related work and ensure that the numbers are appropriately factored into the research paper (i.e. relevance is brought out).

Students are required to use the APA format in writing course papers. Therefore, the APA rules for formatting, quoting, paraphrasing, citing, and listing of sources are to be followed. Make sure you include a title page and reference page in addition to your 8-10 pages of text.

Your paper must contain at least five current references and may include Internet sources, books, your text book, and professional journals or similar resources. Note: your sources must be considered scholarly sources (wikipedia, and similar resources are NOTallowed). The textboook must be cited as one of your references

The textbook is written by author Jerold L. Zimmerman and is "Accounting for Decision Making and Control" 6th edition
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Essay Instructions: Ok this is a huge paper plus power point presentation which incorporates following information for JetBlue Airways

Resource: Implementation, Strategic Controls, and Contingency Plans assignment with facilitator feedback

Complete a 2,800- to 3,500-word strategic plan for your organization.

Update your plan to incorporate facilitator feedback from the draft versions submitted in previous weeks. Include the following:

? Table of contents

? Executive summary, with a 2-page maximum

? Company background, organizational mission, vision, and value statements

? Environmental scan

? Review of Week Four strategies and a recommendation for the best strategy for your organization (will upload week 4 paper and week 2 paper with resources)

? Implementation plan: Include objectives, functional tactics, action items, milestones, tasks, resource allocation, and a deadline. In addition, analyze key success factors. Include a budget and forecasted financials, including a break-even chart.

? Risk management plan, including contingency plans for identified risks

****Prepare a 6- to 10-slide Microsoft? PowerPoint? presentation with speaker notes. Your audience will play the board of directors or a venture capital firm. The focus is to sell your recommendations to the board or venture capital firm, and obtain approval for funding your plan.

Would also like to have the writer who wrote my last paper write this (the one on April 2).