Hotel finance articles

• 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.

  3 June 2026 · 8 min read

• 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.

  6 May 2026 · 9 min read

• 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.

  8 April 2026 · 9 min read

• 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.

  18 March 2026 · 8 min read

• 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.

  4 March 2026 · 9 min read

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