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A Analysis On The Sanctuary Hotel

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The Sanctuary Hotel, which is located in Adelaide CBD, illustrated in the conducted Profit and Loss Statement its performance based on the day to day operations. The General Manager was indicated to organize a vertical analysis for a Profit and Loss Statement. A vertical analysis is a financial method for a system in which is divided into three categories(assets, liabilities and owner’s equity) in order to estimate the financial status of the business(Investopedia, 2015). While conducting a vertical analysis of the Profit and Loss Statement, the Sanctuary Hotel’s General Manager identified several valuable under performances. The three areas which were affected the most are linens, repairs and maintenance, and uniforms. In this document several suggestions will be addressed for each of the under performance acknowledge in the Sanctuary Profit and Loss Statement.

The linen are the cloths used to organize and decorate a bedroom. Linen expenses might include material stuff such as facecloths, pillows, blankets, sheets or towels. According to the Sanctuary Hotel benchmark, the expected expense for the linen was $6754. Nonetheless, the actual expense increased by a variance percentage of 128.35%. In other words, the variance incremented by the significant amount of $8,669. From another point of view, the linen covered 1.14% of to the total sales revenue, which was the amount of $1,350,799.

The factors that contributed to the increment of the cost of linen could be

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