hotel forecasting

Hospitality Financial Leadership – Designing Your Financial Reporting System – A Wake-Up Call

Having a financial system that produces regularly scheduled information about your hotel and the direction it is going is paramount to your survival. Without this regular reporting, you are really flying by the seat of your pants. But what exactly do you need to be looking at and who produces it and…

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Hospitality Financial Leadership – What is the Only Thing We Know for Sure About the Hotel Budget?

The budget is a BIG deal. Heck, it consumes so much time and energy in the hotel. Getting it right is a critical element to any branded, managed hotel. If you are reading this and you do not prepare an annual budget, you are probably scratching your head and wondering what I…

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Hospitality Financial Leadership – The Top 10 Forecasting Secrets

Forecasting is incredibly important because we need a fresh and current plan to help us execute our financial strategy and as the saying goes, “Without a map any road will take you where you want to go.” I know for many hotels the idea of having a monthly forecast seems far-reaching and…

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Hospitality Financial Leadership – The Basic Principles


Accounting was a trade that had a global language much like carpentry or plumbing. There were universal rules that applied and these principles were exactly the same in the hotel business. That was good news. Accounting principles are universal. The way in which accounting is done throughout the…

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