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ACCOUNTING ESSENTIALS FOR HOSPITALITY MANAGERS, 17
Accounting Essentials for Hospitality Managers, 17
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Second Edition

By
Chris Guilding, Professor, Dept of Tourism, Leisure, Hotel and Sport Management, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia

Included in series
Hospitality, Leisure and Tourism,

Description
For non-accountant hospitality managers, accounting and financial management is often perceived as an inaccessible part of the business, yet understanding is crucial for success. Using an ?easy to read? style, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the most relevant accounting information for managers. It demonstrates how to organise and analyse accounting data to help make informed decisions with confidence. With its highly practical approach, this book: – Quickly develops the reader?s ability to adeptly use and interpret accounting information to further organisational decision making and control – Demonstrates how an appropriate analysis of financial reports can drive your business strategy forward from a well-informed base – Develops mastery of the key accounting concepts through financial decision making cases that take a hospitality manager?s perspective on an issue – Sets financial problems in the context of a range of countries and currencies – Includes two new chapters on internal control and performance management – Offers further resources at Textbooks.Elsevier.com including a suite of worked contextualised cases in Tourism, Events and Sport Management The all new companion website includes the suite of contextualised examples, PowerPoint lectures aligned to each chapter, solutions to all end-of-chapter problems, a student revision test bank and a password protected test bank available to lecturers who adopt this book as required student reading. These resources are SCORM compliant and compatible with institutions? Learning Management Systems. Dr. Chris Guilding is professor of Hotel management at Griffith University. He is a qualified member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and has held full time lecturing positions in universities in Australia, Canada, England and New Zealand. His research interests concern accounting applications in the hospitality sector and he has more than 40 refereed publications in a range of top journals that span the accounting, hospitality and tourism management fields.

Audience
Level 1 or 2 undergraduates on Hospitality or Tourism Management degree and HND / diploma level students where finance and accounting is a core subject. Typical titles of courses that would adopt the book include: Hospitality Accounting, Hospitality Management Accounting, Hospitality Finance, Tourism Accounting, Tourism and Hospitality Accounting, Financial Operations for Hospitality, Business Analysis and Decision Making, Hospitality Cost Control, Hospitality Operations Management, Financial Analysis, etc.

Contents
Introduction; Analysing Transactions and Preparing Year End Financial Statements; Double Entry Accounting; Adjusting and Closing Entries; Internal Control; Cost Management Issues; Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis; Budgeting and Responsibility Accounting; Flexible Budgeting and Variance Analysis; Performance Measurement; Cost Information and Pricing; Working Capital Management; Investment Decision Making

Bibliographic details
Paperback, 360 pages, publication date: FEB-2009
ISBN-13: 978-1-85617-667-5
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN

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Last update: 5 Sep 2009
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