Culinary Arts - Valparaiso

For non-accountant hospitality managers, accounting and financial management is often perceived as an inaccessible part of the business, yet understanding is crucial for success. Using an 'easy to read' style, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the most relevant accounting information for managers. It demonstrates how to organize and analyze accounting data to help make informed decisions with confidence.

For courses in Foodservice Cost Control and/or Managerial Accounting. Analyzing and Controlling Foodservice Costs, 5e focuses on modern food management and how technology, management theory and accounting principles can be used to create viable foodservice operations. Now in its fifth edition, the text covers the latest in technology trends, includes ChefTec software, and offers sound coverage of financial concepts and management topics. Insights from industry executives give the text a real-world flavor, while the new end-of-chapter exercises offer an easy way to incorporate the ChefTec software into learning.

Hospitality professionals will find that this eighth edition balances purchasing activities with product and information from a management perspective. Each chapter has been revised so that the most current concepts available are presented along with even more in-depth coverage of hospitality purchasing. Numerous examples, questions, and exercises are included to reinforce new concepts. In order to reflect changes in the field, technology applications in the purchasing function are discussed throughout. New, revised, and updated illustrations and photographs of concepts, companies, and products relating to the purchasing function have also been included to give hospitality professionals a better understanding of the field.