Your Books Closed. Your Operation Protected. By People Who've Run Hotels and Restaurants.

The Hospitality Accounting Problem No One is Solving

Finding a qualified hotel or restaurant accountant is hard. Keeping one is harder. And when they leave — and they will — you absorb the recruiting cost, the onboarding time, and every error they made while they were learning your operation.  The industry turnover rate for staff accountants runs at 20–30% annually. Each occurrence costs $15,000–$25,000 when you account for recruiting, lost productivity, and ramp time.  Most operators accept this as the cost of doing business. It isn’t. It’s a structural problem with a structural fix.

What Hospitality Accounting & Oversight Actually Is

This is not bookkeeping. This is not a virtual assistant managing your invoices.  Hospitality Accounting & Oversight is operationally-embedded accounting performed by professionals who have personally run hotels and restaurants — who have investigated fraud, identified revenue leakage, and seen exactly what standard accountants miss when they don’t understand the operation behind the numbers.  Your books get closed. And every transaction gets reviewed through 30 years of operational intelligence that knows what the numbers are supposed to look like — and flags it when they don’t.

What's Included

•        Monthly financial close and reporting

•        Bank reconciliation and cash controls review

•        P&L preparation and variance analysis

•        Revenue audit and posting accuracy review

•        Comp, void, and discount pattern monitoring

•        Payroll integrity and labor cost review

•        Accounts payable and vendor risk review

•        Red flag identification and escalation

•        Restaurant-specific: tip reporting, POS reconciliation, bar inventory oversight

•   Monthly cash runway analysis

Why This Is Different from Hiring a Staff Accountant

Hiring a Staff Accountant                                                                                         Bleser & Associates
$15K–$25K turnover cost per                                                                          Zero turnover cost. Ever. 
Recruiting, onboarding, training on you                                                       No recruiting. No onboarding. No Ramp.
Learns your operation over months                                                              Has over 30 years of operational experience and knowledge.
Misses leakage patterns they don’t know to look for                                 Identifies leakage patterns Day 1.                                  Scales poorly across multiple properties.                                                     Scales across your portfolio without proportional cost increase.
Generic accounting training                                                                            Hospitality -specific operational experience: hotels and restaurants.

 

Independence Statement

Important: Bleser & Associates does not perform Hospitality Accounting & Oversight and independent audit services on the same property simultaneously. This boundary exists to protect the integrity of both engagements — and yours

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