Hospitality
Hotels, Cafes, Service Apartments
Night audit reconciliation, departmental reporting and tip compliance for service-intensive operations.
Hospitality generates high transaction volume across several revenue streams — rooms, food and beverage, ancillary services, events — each with its own cost structure, supplier relationships and tax treatment. Financial trouble in a hotel is rarely fraud. It is almost always inadequate cost visibility and reconciliation discipline compounding quietly over a few quarters.
The reporting convention is its own discipline. The Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Industry (USALI) structures results by department, so rooms, F&B and other operated departments each carry their own revenue, direct cost and profit — which is what makes benchmarking against comparable properties possible and what an owner or lender expects to see.
Payroll adds a second layer. Tipped-employee compliance under the FLSA — tip credits, tip pooling rules, overtime on the full minimum wage rather than the cash wage, and the Form 8027 large food and beverage establishment report — is one of the most frequently mishandled areas in the sector.
Our hospitality practice gives hotel groups, serviced apartment operators and F&B businesses the reporting and compliance infrastructure to hold margin discipline across all of it.
The Problems We See Most in Hospitality
Sector expertise is only credible when it names the thing the sector actually struggles with. These are the recurring ones.
Night audit that never quite reconciles
PMS, POS and the general ledger drift apart daily. Once several weeks accumulate, isolating whether the difference is timing, comps, or a missing settlement becomes a forensic exercise.
Tip credit and overtime exposure
Overtime for tipped staff is calculated on the full minimum wage, not the reduced cash wage — a rule that is misapplied often enough to be a standard audit finding.
Departmental reporting owners can use
Without USALI-structured departmental P&Ls, an owner cannot tell whether F&B is subsidising rooms or the other way round, and cannot benchmark against comparable properties.
Occupancy and F&B tax across jurisdictions
Occupancy tax is frequently levied at city and county level on top of state sales tax, with rules that differ property by property.
What we handle for hospitality clients
Common Questions From Hospitality Clients
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