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Hotel monthly reporting pack

A USALI-format package as an owner or asset manager receives it. Figures are illustrative — the structure, line ordering and terminology are exactly what we produce.

Contents: summary operating statement · departmental detail · statistics and flow-through · owner statement

Schedule 1

Summary operating statement

Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Industry, 11th revised edition presentation. Month and year-to-date against budget and prior year.

LineActualBudgetVar% of revPrior yr
Operating revenue
Rooms1,842,4001,760,000+82,40071.8%1,681,900
Food and beverage548,900571,000−22,10021.4%519,300
Other operated departments118,700124,000−5,3004.6%112,400
Miscellaneous income55,30052,000+3,3002.2%48,800
Total operating revenue2,565,3002,507,000+58,300100.0%2,362,400
Departmental expenses
Rooms479,000448,800−30,20026.0%420,500
Food and beverage417,200399,700−17,50076.0%368,700
Other operated departments71,20074,400+3,20060.0%68,600
Total departmental expenses967,400922,900−44,50037.7%857,800
Total departmental profit1,597,9001,584,100+13,80062.3%1,504,600
Undistributed operating expenses
Administrative and general186,300180,500−5,8007.3%172,900
Information and telecommunications41,00040,100−9001.6%38,400
Sales and marketing154,000150,400−3,6006.0%141,700
Property operations and maintenance102,600100,300−2,3004.0%96,800
Utilities89,80087,700−2,1003.5%84,200
Total undistributed573,700559,000−14,70022.4%534,000
Gross operating profit1,024,2001,025,100−90039.9%970,600
Management fees76,96075,210−1,7503.0%70,870
Non-operating income and expense312,400311,000−1,40012.2%305,100
EBITDA634,840638,890−4,05024.7%594,630

Illustrative figures for a 180-room full-service property. Note the pattern this presentation exposes: revenue beat budget by $58,300, and EBITDA still finished $4,050 behind it.

Schedule 2

Statistics and flow-through

StatisticActualBudgetPrior yearvs PY
Rooms available5,5805,5805,580
Rooms sold4,3524,2414,129+5.4%
Occupancy78.0%76.0%74.0%+4.0 pts
Average daily rate$423.35$415.00$407.34+3.9%
RevPAR$330.18$315.41$301.42+9.5%
Cost per occupied room$110.07$105.82$101.84+8.1%
Total revenue flow-through to GOP26.4%

The commentary that ships with it

RevPAR grew 9.5% year over year on a four-point occupancy gain and a 3.9% rate increase — a strong top line. Only 26.4% of the incremental revenue reached gross operating profit. Cost per occupied room rose 8.1%, concentrated in rooms department labour, and food and beverage finished 3.9% behind budget on revenue while its departmental cost ratio held at 76%. The rooms labour variance is the actionable item; the F&B shortfall is a demand question, not a cost one.

That paragraph is the difference between a reporting package and a report. Numbers arrive with the explanation already written.

Schedule 2a

Where the revenue gain stopped

Revenue+202,900 Rooms dept−58,500 F&B dept−48,500 Undistributed−39,700 GOP+53,600 Year-over-year bridge. Flow-through 26.4%.

A revenue-up, profit-flat month always has a specific cause. The bridge names it.

Schedule 3

Owner statement

Produced to the management agreement. This is the page an asset manager or lender actually reads.

EBITDA per Schedule 1634,840
FF&E reserve at 4.0% of total revenue(102,612)
Net operating income532,228
Debt service(288,400)
Real estate taxes and insurance escrow(61,750)
Cash flow available for distribution182,078
Working capital adjustment(25,000)
Distribution to ownership157,078
Debt service coverage ratio1.85×
Covenant minimum1.25×

Covenant position is calculated every period, not at the test date. If a ratio is trending toward its minimum you hear about it with months of warning, not weeks.