Insights & Perspectives
Short essays on stewardship, governance, and the strategic finance decisions facing clubs, hospitality businesses, and growing companies.
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What a fractional CFO does for an independent or boutique hotel: USALI reporting, RevPAR and GOPPAR, cash forecasting, lender packages, and what it costs.
How a fractional restaurant CFO helps multi-unit groups control prime cost, compare locations, forecast cash and decide where to open next.
How hospitality management companies use a fractional CFO to standardize reporting, close faster across properties, and win more management contracts.
Build a 13-week cash flow forecast for a hotel, club or restaurant group: the inputs, the weekly rhythm, and how to stop being surprised by cash.
How Florida clubs, hotels and restaurants plan for the summer cash dip: reserve targets, payroll planning, vendor timing and off-season capital work.
When a hotel, club or restaurant's books are months behind or unreliable, here is how an accounting cleanup works, how long it takes, and what it costs.
Why independent hotels and resorts should report in USALI format, what departmental reporting reveals, and how to convert your chart of accounts.
How hotels, restaurants and clubs should calculate labor cost percentage, why it misleads on its own, and the labor metrics a CFO actually manages to.
A month-by-month private club budget process: dues modeling, departmental budgets, capital and reserves, and a board approval timeline that works.
A month-end close checklist built for private clubs: member billing, POS and F&B, payroll, reconciliations, and a review step so reports go out by day 10.
How private clubs prepare for the annual audit: PBC lists, reconciliations, initiation fees, capital assets and member equity, plus a timeline that works.
What club and community boards should verify at developer turnover: reserves, deferred maintenance, member equity, contracts and an independent review.
