Management Accounting and Cost Control (HOSP 2114)
This course uses a decision-making approach to prepare students to be skilled managers in the hospitality industry. The course includes a variety of workplace financial problems and a running theme of strategic management to help students relate management accounting decisions to a company’s success. Course topics will include: analyzing financial data of hotels and restaurant operations, measuring F&B cost and their selling prices, cost-volume-profit analysis, optimizing sales and revenues, budgeting, and capital investment.
Course code: HOSP 2114
Credits: 3.0
Tuition: $0
Length: 45.0 hours
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- The differences between management accounting and financial accounting, the importance of management accounting in hospitality operations, standards of Competence, Confidentiality, Integrity, and Credibility in management accounting.
- Analyzing income statement and balance sheet by focusing on hotels and restaurants operations. Using horizontal, vertical, and ratio analysis.
- Cost concepts: cost objects, types of costs, cost in restaurants, costs in hotels, direct and indirect cost, variable and fixed costs, mixed costs.
- Food and beverage costing
- Cost-Volume-Profit analysis
- Menu engineering
- Revenue and Profit optimization
- Different methods of pricing rooms for hotels and pricing menu items for restaurants.
- Budgeting; Sales budget, purchase budget, income statement budget, capital budget, cash budget. decision making based on the comparison of budgeted numbers to actual numbers.
- Capital Investment; return on investment (ROI), accounting rate of return (ARR), pay back method, net present value (NPV) of investment.
To learn more about the PLAR pathways for this course review the Hospitality Management Diploma Program Content Guide.
This course is offered as part of a VCC program only.
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