
Explains the main profit and loss statement (grand page) for hotels, detailing revenue by department, budgets and forecasts, year-to-date and month-to-month comparisons, and key expense categories.
Examine contract room revenue for stays over 30 days, distinguish it from long-stay bookings, and review no-shows, deposits, group contracts, and late checkout fees affecting adr.
Explore the structure of room department expenses under USALI, detailing labor costs—including management vs non-management, payroll, and service distribution—and non-labor operating costs across front office, housekeeping, laundry, and guest services.
Explore how labor cost is structured in hospitality, detailing salary and wages, contract employees, payroll, and the split between management and non-management roles across front office, guest services, and housekeeping.
Analyze labor cost in the rooms division, covering housekeeping, laundry, reservations, transport, and club floor staff. See how salaries and wages are allocated to rooms division to reflect performance.
Explore contracted and outsourced labor, bonuses and incentives, and payroll related expenses including payroll taxes, supplementary pay, and employee benefits for the room division.
Explore room expenses in usali, focusing on cleaning expenses, cleaning supplies, and the capex vs expense treatment for equipment. Also examine cluster services, commissions, complimentary f&b, in-room entertainment, and decorations.
Examine room expenses from dues and subscription through reservation expenses, detailing entertainment in-house, equipment rental, guest relocation, guest supplies, transportation, laundry, linens, licenses, and operating supplies.
Understand room department expenses, including royalty fees for brand use, training costs, travel and meals, and uniform costs with amortization, plus uniform and linen laundry allocations.
Discover how to calculate occupancy and other key operating metrics for hotel performance. Clarify inventory concepts like total inventory, available for sale, and not available for sale in room statistics.
Master the formulas for room statistics, including occupancy percentage, rooms sold versus available, complimentary rooms, and average length of stay with segment and nationality breakdowns.
Analyze hotel profit and loss by distinguishing fixed and variable expenses, interpreting room revenue segmentation, and evaluating labor costs, operating costs, and budget comparisons for informed profitability decisions.
Hospitality finance is unique from other industries. A part of the hotel finance department is considered part of hotel operations rather than a support function due to blending into the main operations for cash control, purchasing, material management.
Hotel operations are also fast-paced high-volume transactions making it unique and require a lot of internal controls and reconciliations. Being a part of a big moving machine, if finance does not function equally fast, the entire machine gets slows. and if internal control is week, revenue may leak.
In this complete Master Class, we will learn all components of the hotel finance function, internal controls, management aspects and technical accounting.
Class is divided into Modules and you will gain access to all modules one by one. you can choose to learn as per your individual requirements. In this module, we will be covering
- What is uniform system of accounting for lodging industries (USALI)
- Templates for Profit & Loss Account
- Definition of Revenue and Expenses lines in Profit & Loss accounts.
- Market Segmentation and other statistics reports prescribed by USALI for hotels to maintain for analysis
In other modules, we will be covering,
Uniform System of accounting,
Accounts Receivable
General Accounting
Fixed Asset Controls
Income Audit
Cost Control and other departments.
This Module is Basic and the First to be learned. There will be updates to this module based on our Live classes. You can ask any questions in the Question and Answers.
The instructor of this class is an experienced CFO with over 12 years of experience in hospitality finance, Currently, he is managing 15 hotels in Myanmar.
Once you have completed all Modules, you will get entitled to Get a Master Class Certificate issued by “E hotel management school” separately in addition to completion certificate issued by UDEMY for Completing each module.