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HA 260
Test 1
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Accounting
Undergraduate 4
02/02/2012

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Term
Current Liability 
Definition
accounts payable, taxes payable, etc. 
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Current Asset
Definition
cash, inventory, accounts receivable 
Term
Long-Term Asset
Definition
equipment, property, plant
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Long-Term Liability 
Definition
Bank Loan
Term
Owner Equity 
Definition
retained earnings, initial capital accounts, common stock
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Working capital
Definition
current assets, current liabilities 
Term
Profit Formula
Definition
revenues - expenses 
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RevPAR 
Definition
Room Revenues/ total rooms
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Cost Percent 
Definition
Wage cost/ revenues 
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Retention/Flow through
Definition
change in profits/ change in revenue dollars
Term
Department Pofit
Definition
Revenues - cost of sales + wages + benefits + operating epxpenses 
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profit percent 
Definition
profit dollars/revenue dollars
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average rate
Definition
room revenue/rooms sold
Term
occupancy percentage
Definition
rooms sold/ total rooms
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revenue
Definition
rate X volume
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profit dollars
Definition
revenue - expenses 
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profit percent
Definition
profit dollar/ revenue dollar
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market capitalization 
Definition
#of outstanding shares X stock price
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working capital
Definition
current assets - current liabilites 
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budget
Definition
the formal business and financial plan for a business for 1 year
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change
Definition
the difference between 2 numbers
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comparison
Definition
to examine, to note the likeness or differene
Term
financial management cycle
Definition
the process of producing, preparing, analysing, and applying #'s to business operations
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forecast
Definition
updates the budget weekly, monthly, or quarterly
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last year
Definition
the official financial performance of the previous year
Term
percentages
Definition
a share or portion in relation to the whole or part
Term
change
Definition
measures the differne in percent between 2 numbers
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cost
Definition
measures the $ cost or expense as a part of the total applicable revenue
Term
mix
Definition
measures dollars or units as a part of a whole
Term
profit
Definition
measures the dollar profit as a part of the total applicable revenues
Term
pro forma
Definition
the prjected first year of operations prepared before actual operations begin
Term
Trend
Definition
a general inclination or tendency 
Term
change in $'s
Definition
acutal results - previous results
Term
change in percentage
Definition
dollar change/ previous results
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cost percent
Definition
expense dollars/corresposnding revenue dollars
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mix percent
Definition
individual or department amount/ total
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profit percent
Definition
profit dollars/ corresponding revenue dollars
Term
accounting department
Definition
a staff department that supports all other staff and operating departments in the hotel with regard to accounting procedures and hotel operations
Term
accounts payable
Definition
the process of approving invoices and issuing checks in payment for products and goods received by a hotel or restaurant
Term
accounts period 
Definition
a 28 day time period that can be used instead of calender months to prepare management reports and financial staements coverin hotel operations
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accounts receivable 
Definition
the process of billing and collecting accounts settled after the guest company had checked out the hotel. It includes credit card billing and company direct billing
Term
assistant controller 
Definition
a manager in the accounting office who reports to the Director of Finance and oversees specific funtions in the accounting office, either Income Operations or Accounts Receivable 
Term
Corporate Accounting Office
Definition
a cental location that provides accounting support and services for individual hotels or resturants operated by the company
Term
department head
Definition
a amanger that had direct responsiblity for the operations of a specific hotel department. Department heads report to an Executive Committee Member and have line mangers and supervisors reporting to them
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direct report
Definition
the mangers or positions that report directly to a specific management position 
Term
director of finance 
Definition
the Executive Committee Memberdirectly responsible for all accounting oeprations in a hotel, somtimes reffered to as the controller
Term
Executive committee
Definition
the members of the senior managements who report directly to the GM and have responsibility for several specific hotel departments. Department Heads report to an executive committee member
Term
External customer
Definition
paying customers who stay in hotels and eat in restuarants and pay money for receiving those products and services 
Term
full service hotels
Definition
hotels with generally more than 200 rooms that operate food and beverage outlets, catering functions and meeting room rentals, gift shops, valet laundry, health workout facilities, bellmenm and other services and amentities
Term
general cashier
Definition
the position that collects, balances, and consolidates all of the operating department deposits into one deposit for the hotel that goes to the bank each day
Term
GM
Definition
the senior manager in the hotel who is responsible for all hotel operations. All positions and activites are the responsibilty of this person
Term
Income Journal
Definition
the section of the accounting office that is involved in recording income, processing deposits, paying expenses, and assiting other hotel managers
Term
Internal customers
Definition
employees who receive the support of other company employees in performing their job responsibilties. EX all empoyees are internal customers for the human resource department, which administers benefits, processes payroll, and conducts training programs for their internal customers - all employees 
Term
Line manager
Definition
the entry-level management position who has face-to-face interaction with the customers and is responsible for leading employees in operating the different shifts of a hotel department
Term
operating department
Definition
a hotel department that records revenues and produces profits by providing products and services to paying customers or guests 
Term
organization chart
Definition
describes the reporting relationships, responsibilities, and operating activities for a department or business unit
Term
staff department 
Definition
a hotel department that provides assistance and support to the hotel oeprating departments. the have internal customers 
Term
Income
Definition
a term interchangable with profit and earnings 
Term
liquidity
Definition
the amount of cash or cash equivalents that a business has to cover its daily operating expenses 
Term
Market capitalization
Definition
a measure of the value of a company that includes the number of outstanding shares held by individual and institutional investors times the current tock price of the company 
Term
market segment 
Definition
customer groups defined by expectations, preferences, buying patterns, and behavior patterns 
Term
POS
Definition
the equipment that records the customer transaction, including identifying the method of payment and reporting the type of transaction
Term
profit
Definition
the amount of revenues left over after all appropriate expenses have been paid 
Term
P & L
Definition
measures the operating success and profitabilty of a business
Term
property 
Definition
the term for the physical hotel or restuarant
Term
rate
Definition
the $ amount paid byt he customer to receive a product or service provided by a business
Term
Retention/flow through
Definition
the amount of incremental revenue dollars that become incremental profit dollars. It is expressed as a percentage
Term
revenue
Definition
a monetary amount that customers pay to purchase a product or service. It can be cash, check, cc, accts receivable, or electronic transfer
Term
Revenue per available room
Definition
and importnat measure of a hotel's ability to generate room revenue by measuring bother avg room rate and occ % 
Term
statement of cash flows
Definition
measures the liquidity and flow of cash in a business
Term
volume
Definition
the number of units sold, served, received, or bought by cutomers during a specific time frame
Term
working capital 
Definition
the amount of money utilized in the daily operations of a business. It includes using the current assets and current liabilities as well as cash in producing a product or service 
Term

P&L * measure the operating success and profitability of a business ( income statement) 

Definition

1. covers a specific time perios (MQA)

 

2. It reports the actual financial results of a business (revenues,expenses, profits) specific time

 

3. evaluates the actual performance TO budget, forecast, & previous perormance

 

4. Includes summary or consolidated P&L & supporting P&L statments

a. Consolidated P&L - summarize rev, exp, prof by department

b. Department P&L - detail rev, exp, prof by department

 

5. new P&L statement is generated each month or acc period, records current month info & YTD info

 

6. managers are expected to critique their monthly P&L statements to explain postivie and negative variations from budg, forecast and previous performance (BFP) 

Term
balance sheet * measures the value or worth of a business. Also known as Asset and Liability statement (A&L) 
Definition

1. measures value or worth at specific point in time

 

2. Fundamental accounts equation --> assets = L - OE

 

3. made up of accounts organized by A,L,OE

 

4. these accounts are divided into current accounts(<1year) also referred to as working capital and long-term accounts (>1year) which are referred to as capitalization

 

5. each accounts has a beginning balance, monthly activity, ending balance

 

6. Unlike P&L managers are not expected to provide critiques of monthly BS activity (done by accting dept.) 

 

7. each month accounting managers balance the accounts on the BS 

Term
statment of cash flows * measures the liquidity and flow of cash of a busniess
Definition

1.invloves the cash account and BS

 

2. beginning and ending balances

 

3. shows how money is used in daily operations 

 

4. measures liquidity 

 

5. fundamental component of working capital 

 

6. reflects the increases and decreases in BS accounts 

Term
2 ways numbers are used
Definition
management tool & financial performance
Term
Accounting and Financial mngt:
Definition
mazimizing reveneues, minimizing expenses, maximizing profits, using numbers to measure and improve financial performance 
Term
capitalization
Definition
the source and methods of raising money to invest in and start a business
Term
financial analysis 
Definition
the speration of a business's mngt of monetary affairs into parts for individual study
Term
accounting concepts
Definition
the bookkeeping methods and financial transactions used in the daily business operations
Term
Balance Sheet 
Definition
measures the value or net worth of a business 
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