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Hotel month-end review checklist
A one-page checklist covering revenue, payroll, departmental expenses, reconciliations, reporting and the final review before the numbers are circulated.
Free hotel finance resources
Useful on their own, and a fair way to judge whether the paid tools are built the way you work. Nothing here is a trial version with pieces removed.
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Variance explanation examples
Weak and strong variance comments side by side for revenue, payroll and expense lines, with a short note on what makes the difference.
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Monthly financial review outline
The section-by-section structure of a monthly review that holds up in front of a general manager or an owner.
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Hotel KPI glossary
Plain definitions of the measures that appear in hotel reporting: occupancy, ADR, RevPAR, cost per occupied room, labor percentage and the rest.
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Budget assumptions worksheet
A short worksheet for writing down occupancy, rate and cost assumptions before the budget file is opened.
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Articles on the same subjects
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Variance analysis
How to Write Better Hotel Financial Variance Explanations
Most variance commentary describes the number instead of explaining it. Here is what a useful explanation contains, with weak and strong examples for revenue, payroll and expenses.
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Month-end
Hotel Month-End Close Checklist: A Practical Framework
A close works when the sequence is written down. This is the order most hotel closes follow, from the revenue cut-off through reconciliations to the final sign-off.
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Reporting
How to Prepare a Hotel Monthly Financial Review
The monthly review is a story about the period, not a printout of the trial balance. Here is a structure that holds up in front of a general manager or an owner.
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Budgeting
Hotel Budgeting Basics: Occupancy, ADR, RevPAR, Payroll, and Expenses
A budget is a set of assumptions with numbers attached. This covers how the assumptions are built, phased across the year, and stopped from becoming falsely precise.
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Variance analysis
What Hotel Department Heads Should Include in Financial Comments
Written for department leaders rather than finance. Six things a comment needs, why finance keeps asking for them, and how to write them in five minutes.
When a checklist is not enough
The paid tools carry the same thinking into full workbooks: department schedules, variance collection, budget assumptions and sign-off tracking.