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.
Why independent hotels and resorts should report in USALI format, what departmental reporting reveals, and how to convert your chart of accounts.
An outsourced CFO won't cook, host, or fix your POS — so what does one actually do for a restaurant group or hotel, and when is the money better spent on a controller? A working answer from inside the engagements.
What a fractional CFO for hotel management companies owns: fee economics, owner reporting, the above-property cost model. Plus cost math and when to skip it.
The USALI 12th edition took effect January 1, 2026. What actually changed, what it breaks in your month-end close, and how to brief owners before they ask.
The hotel flow through calculation, the variants operators argue about, GOPPAR vs RevPAR, and a worked example showing why rate-led growth flows better.
Hotel owner reporting package: what belongs in it, who reads each section, the day-10 close calendar, and the reporting habits that cost operators contracts.
How a hotel management agreement fee structure really pays: base and incentive fees, owner's priority, performance tests, FF&E reserve, and the traps in each.
