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Developments in the International Hospitality Industry
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By
Peter Harris, Professor of Accounting, School of Hotel and Restaurant Management, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Marco Mongiello, Teaching fellow at Tanaka Business School,Imperial College, London
Description
Accounting and Financial Management: developments in the international hospitality industry presents new and innovative
research and developments in the field of accounting and financial management as it relates to the work of managing enterprises and organisations
in the international hospitality industry.
The content contains contributions from a rich source of international researchers, academics
and practitioners including, university and college lecturers, professional accountants and consultants and senior managers involved
in a wide range of teaching, scholarship, research, and consultancy in the hospitality industry worldwide. The material is drawn from
their work and experience and relates directly to the management of hospitality undertakings. Therefore the up to date case studies
and examples used are taken from a wide ranging of companies across the industry including large international chains such as Sheraton,
Holiday Inn, and Intercontinental.
Divided into three parts: Performance Management, Information Management and Asset Management the
book tackles the following issues amongst others:
* Performance management in the international hospitality industry
* Benchmarking:
measuring financial success
* The profit planning framework
* Making room rate pricing decisions
* Hotel asset management UK and US perspectives
* Lowering risk to enhance hospitality firm value
Accounting and Financial Management: developments in the international hospitality
industry presents current developments drawn from a combination of live fieldwork and practical experience and therefore will
content will appeal to a wide-ranging readership including practising managers and financial controllers in hospitality organisations,
professional accountants and consultants, postgraduate candidates studying for master's degrees in hospitality management, and final
year undergraduate students of hospitality management who elect to take an accounting option.
Audience
Final year BA/BSc hospitality management degree programmes (accounting options/electives, taught Postgraduate diplomas and Masters degree
courses and Research Masters and Doctorate programmes.
Practitioners within the industry such as: Financial controllers and accountants
in hospitality organisations, Professional accounting and hospitality consulting firms, Executives and senior managers in regional/corporate
offices.
Also Resource centres/libraries in universities, colleges, professional accounting and hospitality consulting firms, professional
and trade associations and commercial hospitality organisations.
Contents
Part A: Performance Management
1. Performance measurement in independent hotels.
Mine Haktanir, PhD
Assistant Professor and Lecturer
in School of Tourism and Hospitality Management, Eastern Mediterranean University,
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
2. Productivity
in the hospitality industry: how to measure productivity and improve process management.
Pekka Heikkil , MSc (econ.) Certified HTM-Auditor
(Finland)
Lecturer in Business Accounting,
Haaga Institute Polytechnic, Helsinki, Finland.
and
Timo Saranp , MSc (econ.)
Managing director,
Sadanpaamies consulting
Lecturer in Business Accounting
Haaga Institute Polytechnic, Helsinki, Finland
3. Performance management in
the international hospitality industry.
Helen Atkinson MBA, BA(Hons) ACMA HCIMA ABHA
Principal Lecturer in Accounting
School of Service
Management
University of Brighton, UK.
4. Budgetary practice within the hospitality industry.
Tracy Jones, BSc, MPhil, MHCIMA
Principal
Lecturer in Accounting
Cheltenham and Glocestershrie Univeristy, UK
5. Benchmarking: measuring financial success in the hotel industry.
Agnes Lee DeFranco, PhD, CHE, CHAE
Professor, Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel & Restaurant Management University of Houston, USA
6.
Developing a benchmarking methodology for the hotel industry.
Peter Harris
Professor of Accounting
Department of Hospitality, Leisure
and Tourism Management, Business School, Oxford Brookes University
and
Marco Mongiello, PhD, BA, ICA(Italy), ABHA
Principal Lecturer
in Accounting and Finance
Harrow Business School, University of Westminster, UK.
Part B: Information Management
7. The profit planning
framework: applying marginal accounting techniques to hospitality services.
Peter Harris
Professor of Accounting
Department of Hospitality,
Leisure and Tourism Management, Business School, Oxford Brookes University
8. Cross-border reporting for performance evaluation.
Ian
Graham, BA
Managing Director of The Hotel Solutions Partnership Ltd
Kings Langley, UK
9. Cost analysis in hotel industry: an ABC customer
focused approach and the case of joint revenues.
Paolo Collini, PhD, MBA
Professor in Management Accounting and Strategic Management
University of Trento, ITALY
10. Customer profitability in a hotel context.
Vira Krakhmal, MSc, BA, ABHA
Senior Lecturer and Postgraduate
Researcher
Department of Hospitality, Leisure and Tourism Management, Business School, Oxford Brookes University
11. Room rate pricing:
a resource-advantage perspective.
Jean-Pierre I. van der Rest, MA, BBA
Lecturer in Business Economics and Strategic Marketing
Leiden
University, NL
12. The relevance of restaurant accounting systems.
Tommy D. Andersson, PhD
Professor of Tourism Management,
School of
Business, Economics and Law at
Goteborg University, Sweden
13. Environmental accounting: reflecting environmental information in accounting
systems.
Rebecca Hawkins, PhD, BA
Freelance Consultant and Research and Consultancy Fellow
Department of Hospitality, Leisure and Tourism
Management, Business School, Oxford Brookes University
14. Hotel unit financial management: does it have a future?
Cathy Burgess, MPhil,
CDipAF, FBHA, FHCIMA
Senior Lecturer in Accounting for the Hospitality Industry
Department of Hospitality, Leisure and Tourism Management,
Business School, Oxford Brookes University
Part C: Asset Management
15. Hotel asset management: will a North American phenomenon
expand internationally?
Paul Beals, PhD
Visiting Professor of Hotel Real Estate and Finance,
IMHI-ESSEC Business School,
Cergy-Pontoise,
France
16. Hotel asset management: European principles and practice.
Geoff S. Parkinson, BSc, FCA, FHCIMA, FBHA
Managing Director
Hotel
investment Advisors, UK
17. A management accounting perspective on hotel outsourcing.
Dawne Lamminmaki, PhD, BCom, MBA, CMA
Lecturer
in Accounting,
Graduate School of ManagementGriffith University - Gold Coast, AUSTRALIA
18. Sale and leaseback transactions in the
hospitality industry.
Charles Whittaker, BSc (Econ), FCA, MA
Senior Lecturer in Hospitality
Department of Hospitality, Leisure and Tourism
Management, Business School, Oxford Brookes University
19. Hospitality firm risk determinants and value enhancement.
Zheng Gu, PhD,
BS, MA
Professor in Hospitality Finance & Accounting
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
20. Investment appraisal issues arising in hotels
governed by management contract.
Chris Guilding
Professor in Tourism, Leisure, Hotel and Sport Management
Director, Service Industry
Research Centre
Griffith University, AUSTRALIA
21. Autonomy and control in managing network organizations: the case of multinational
hotel companies.
Marco Mongiello, PhD, BA, ICA(Italy), ABHA
Principal Lecturer in Accounting and Finance
Harrow Business School, University
of Westminster, UK.
and
Peter Harris
Professor of Accounting
Department of Hospitality, Leisure and Tourism Management, Business School,
Oxford Brookes University
22. Career directions in financial management in the hospitality industry.
Howard Field FCA FHCIMA FBHA
Hotel
Industry Advisor, Director of FM Recruitment
and Visiting Fellow Oxford Brookes University
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Hardbound, 352 pages, publication date: MAR-2006
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-6729-6
ISBN-10: 0-7506-6729-X
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN
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