HSP 563: Hospitality Research Analysis and Financial Metrics

This course provides a comprehensive perspective of various hospitality financial performance constructs and key industry operating performance benchmarks, including how to design studies to collect the data to analyze. Students will learn the fundamentals of research methodology and then be indoctrinated to hospitality industry metrics and the critical nature of linking analysis with decision-making in order to achieve organizational profitability objectives. Topics include; research methodology, interpretation of financial statements, operating control systems, budgeting-forecasting synthesis, operational leadership techniques and operations flow-through.