Income Statement by Base Airport

Started by LemonButt, February 19, 2020, 04:19:12 PM

LemonButt

In HaF 9/11 just hit and if players are looking at their income statements by base, they probably see their HQ is bleeding money and their base airports are profitable.  This is misleading because there are a lot of "corporate HQ" expenses allocated to the base airport that making comparing apples-to-apples incorrect.

The feature request being adding a separate "Corporate Offices" or similar category for revenue/expenses to be filtered in to so you can compare your HQ base's expenses/profitability/etc. to other bases.  There is corporate staff that falls into this category, but also profit/loss from aircraft sales and similar expenses that should be allocated to the corporate office and not necessarily operations at a base airport.

LemonButt

Additionally the tax for ALL bases are showing up at the HQ, which is another reason why there needs to be a corporate/shared services bucket for these expenses.

LemonButt

To update this, since there is a big hit for the fourth fleet type on commonality, the staff training/maintenance expenses should also be prorated to each base's income statement based on the aircraft operating at the base (i.e. if fleet X costs $100k and half of them are at Base A and half are at Base B then $50k goes to each).  With this "more accurate" accounting of expenses, I think the income tax should largely be able to be attributed to each base also based on EBIDTA.  I think there still needs to be a "shared services" or similar bucket for things like profit/loss on sold aircraft, but ultimately putting the expenses on the correct base along with tax will go a long way.

I have on of the most profitable airlines in the game and my HQ has a -22% net profit margin.  Right now in HaF airlines are dropping like flies and BK, so if airlines had better allocation of expenses they'd have better information on how much shutting a base etc. costs.  I think there are probably several airlines that see their HQ is bleeding money and feel it's hopeless and BK when several could have probably been saved.