29. Various relevant relationships; aircraft manufacturers regulators, airports, aircraft lease or fractional ownership providers, etc.
30. Most of all, increase in financial performance6
31. Hypothesis There is a difference in annual sales volume, number of employees, value of assets, stockholder’s equity, annual income, total current liabilities, and retained earnings among companies with a corporate flight department and companies without a corporate flight department. 7
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33. Samples are divided into two: 30 companies that are in the National Business Aviation Association’s (NBAA) Member Directory & 30 companies that are not in the NBAA Member Directory.
34. Membership in NBAA means that the company has an established corporate flight department and an aircraft ready to use8
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36. annual sales volume,number of employees,value of assets,stockholder’s equity,annual income,total current liabilities,retained earnings
37. Independent Variables are the companies that have an established corporate flight department and the companies that do not have an established corporate flight department.9
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39. Online data sources such as MergentOnline’s Annual Financial Reports that can be accessed through Embry-Riddle’s Hunt Library Online Databases.
40. 30 Companies that have an established corporate flight department (eg. PepsiCo) and 30 companies that do not have an established corporate flight department (eg. Google Inc.) will be compared.10
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42. MergentOnline’s financial data will be imported to MS Excel and intended data will be exported to SPSS in order to be analyzed. 11
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44. ERAU’s name will be used in order to gain a temporary membership in NBAA, therefore being able to reach to Member Directory. NBAA is the leading organization for companies that rely on general aviation aircraft to help make their businesses more efficient, productive and successful.12