This book explains how to use numbers and fundamental accounting to operate a successful hospitality department or business. Focusing on the basics, sections progress from accounting and financial analysis to financial statements and management reports to budgeting and forecasting. Throughout the book current hospitality examples, photographs and illustrations are used. This edition includes the latest from the Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Industry, Tenth Revised Edition, expanded material on Department Profit and Loss Statements, coverage of the 2009 recession and new practice exercises throughout.