Important notes. Financial standing of hotel презентация

Final Group Project Lecturer: Mr. Rezvani Course: BBA 1500 – Accounting 1

Introduction Why did you pick this chain of hotel? Provide a brief history but concentrate on some financial data such as the hotel’s occupancy rate (for the market you are interested in), ADR, RevPAR, etc. Try to focus on a particular market segment or a specific country but not on a global company Add any other crucial and interesting information about this hotel (related to financial standings) you feel necessary.

Our 1st Impression Your first impression on the financial standing of this hotel (it is stable and it has a solid asset as an example) Discuss its Assets, Liabilities and Owner’s equity at the present situation Provide any ideas that you heard of, think of that may or may not be true in your opinion

Red Lion Hotel: Balance Sheets Present your findings of the latest balance sheets (from the excel spreadsheet) How did you interpret the balance sheet on A = L + OE? Make intelligent argument and analysis on the hotel chain with what the financial data presented in the “Current Year” balance sheet. Apply what you have learned from the accounting course so far to your analysis Make some comparisons between the “Current Year” and the “Year Before”. What did you find out? From the financial data, is the company performing better or worse than the year before? What the hotel management tried to inform the public about the company’s performance and future prospects from any additional discussion about their balance sheets

The Balance Sheets & Vertical Analysis

Horizontal Analysis Current Yr vs. Previous Yr In a similar fashion to the vertical analysis What can you derive from the results and your research Analysis is not stating the facts but providing more insights to the results. Discuss what your team could see from the current year verses from the previous year: changes in each of the items on Assets, Liabilities and Owner’s Equity Important note: your analysis points should couple with any research items that you can find in the available company’s financial reports, your research on various leads from internet… Any other thoughts that your team can come up with…be creative Could expand this section into several slides

WOW Factors Any information that you find out about this hotel that will surprise the listener that your team can come up with about A = L + OE If there is a wow item, you should also provide your point of view how this wow information would affect the financial standing in the near future and long-term Make it interesting…this shows how much your team is really into the research and taking up the challenge

Conclusion Summing up your own conclusion about this hotel chain after all of above analysis; make good sense out of what you have What are your feelings now in compare to the 1st impression? Any “advice” to help the management of the hotel for its future operations? Your gut feelings about this hotel financial progress in the next couple of years Any other ideas that you can say at the end of the project

References Provide any references that you have used during your research Important: make sure that the reference to the source financial data must also be in the excel spreadsheet