A controlled hotel end-of-day close process
A practical five-stage process for site preparation, Finance review, correction and business-date sign-off.
- Site and Finance responsibilities
- Evidence and control checklist
- Night audit and Finance close
Hotel finance guides
Use these guides to improve hotel end-of-day review, payment variance investigation and control across multiple properties. Each guide separates the information sites provide from the decisions Finance owns.
The guide library
Each guide gives Finance and hotel teams a shared process, clear responsibilities and practical questions to use in review.
A practical five-stage process for site preparation, Finance review, correction and business-date sign-off.
A repeatable way to verify sources, collect site evidence, classify a difference and record its resolution.
How hotel groups can standardise daily controls while retaining the local detail needed to resolve exceptions.
A shared operating principle
Hotel teams are closest to the operational detail, so they prepare the record and explain unusual activity. Finance checks the sources, agrees corrections, controls journal posting and confirms when the business date is complete.
Apply the guides to your process
Walk through your current site submissions, payment checks, Finance review and accounting output.