HILTON HOTELS CASE Business Context/Key Business Drivers Hilton Hotels is one the biggest lodging company worldwide and has been recently acquired by Blackstone Group. In 2007 Hilton’s portfolio characteristics are: • close to 3‚000 hotels between all its brands; • Properties can be: a) directly owned; b) managed; c) franchised. The latter is the most common solution; • covers almost the possible spectrum of lodging. The IT function is considered part of the core business and the
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Background: Hilton hotels started out in Cisco‚ TX being a small family owned business in the early 1900’s. By 1946 Hilton Hotels Corp became public and 8 years later acquired Promus Corp with the intention of continuing to diversify and cater to all customers whether upper class‚ middle class‚ business or personal. Fast forward to 2007 where now Hilton owns/operates and/or franchises close to 3‚000 properties and 500‚000 rooms in 78 countries ranging from ultimate luxury to middle class hotel chains
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References: Managerial Accounting [VitalSouce bookshelf version]. Retrieved from http://digitalbookshelf.argosy.edu/books/0077588002/id/ch02ufn2
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Course: Managerial Accounting (ACCTG 4B) – Fall 2014 Lab Assignment No: 8 (Chapter 23) Assignment Due Date: 10/30/14 by 6:00AM Instructions Complete the following problems; make sure to include your calculations. Any incomplete work or partially completed will automatically receive zero points. PART I: Herron Company has budgeted the following unit sales: 2008 Units April 25‚000 May 50‚000 June 75‚000 July 45‚000 Of the units budgeted‚ 40% are sold by the Southern Division at an average
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Identification The problem identified is that Hilton HHonors need to decide how to approach a different positioning stand and focus on differentiating its loyalty program from the recently announced Starwood Preferred Guest and other competitors rather than to match their program with Preferred Guest. It is recognized that other competitors such as Hyatt and Marriot who are part of the big players in the hotel industry have not respond to Starwood’s announcement. Thus‚ Hilton will need to decide how to differentiate
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ACG 4341 - Review Sheet - Spring 2012 Multiple Choice Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. ____ 1. Which of the following defines variable cost behavior? Total cost reactionto increase in activity|Cost per unit reactionto increase in activity| a.|remains constant remains constant| b.|remains constant increases| c.|increases increases| d.|increases
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Textbook case: Managerial Accounting for Managers‚ 2nd edition Noreen‚ Brewer and Garrison (McGraw-Hill/Irwin‚ 2008). Case 4-33 Cost Structure; Target profit and Break-Even Analysis Contribution Income Statement for all three scenarios: 15% commission 20% commission Own sales force Sales $16‚000‚000 $16‚000‚000 $16‚000‚000 Variable manuf. cost $7‚200‚000 $7‚200‚000 $7‚200‚000 Commissions $2‚400‚000 $3‚200‚000 $1‚200‚000 -Tot. variable cost ($9‚600‚000)
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References: Needles‚ B. E. (2010). Managerial Accounting. Florida: Cengage Learning. Warren‚ C. S. (2013). Managerial Accounting. Chicago: Cengage Learning.
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Debts to amount calculated) 2014 30 June Bad Debts Expense Allowance for Doubtful Debts 20 070 20 070 (Adjustment to increase Allow for Doubtful Debts to amount calculated) Suggested Solutions taken from the Solutions Manual to accompany Hoggett J.‚ Medlin J. Edwards L.‚ Tilling M. and Hogg E. “Financial Accounting” 8th Edition‚ 2012‚ John Wiley & Sons Australia‚ Ltd.
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Week 11 3 LO10 TRANSFER PRICING • The transfer price affects the income of the buying and selling units and therefore affects: (1) the performance evaluations of both managers and (2) the operating decisions that the managers might make. – If managerial decisions are unaffected and there are no tax complexities involving multinational companies‚ the transfer price has no impact on overall company profit. ACTG 2020 Week 11 4 Setting Transfer Prices
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