Archive for April, 2022

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Apr

5 Reasons to Stop Reverse Engineering Your Hotel Budget

Categories: Budget, Data
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by Robert Hernandez

Even without any research to back me up, I think it is safe to say that most companies reverse engineer their budgets. That is, they decide on a final profit number or percentage and then go about building all the P&Ls to support that final number. From Wall Street to Main Street (sorry for the cliche), business managers tend to build budgets that reflect the expectations of owners and shareholders. Owners like this approach because it allows them to set Read more

14
Apr

Add This Power Metric to Your Pace Report Today

Categories: Analytics, Hotel Analytics
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by Robert Hernandez

Sometimes the simplest math can deliver the most powerful analytics. In my experience this is, by far, the metric that captures the most attention on a Pace Report. When analyzing variances for revenue performance, there is one powerful metric that is easy to calculate and so easy to explain and everyone will be impressed when you use it. The Variance Analysis Components metric will let you show what portion of a variance in revenue is attributed to changes in occupancy Read more

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