Monitor Financial Transactions
Monitor Financial Transactions
Monitor Financial Transactions
Financial
Transaction
s
Night audit
process
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The major functions of the night
audit is to:
a)Verify posted entries to guest and
non-guest accounts
b) Balance all front office accounts
c) Resolve room status and rate
discrepancies
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The major functions of the night
audit is to:
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Role of the night
audit
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Role of the night
audit
The night audit requires
attention to accounting
detail, procedural controls,
and guest credit restrictions.
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Role of the night
audit
In night auditing, end of the
business day is a vital time
for the auditor
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Role of the night
audit
The night auditor shall always
compare the data conveyed in
different folios against points of
sales outlets daily reports,
housekeeping room status report.
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Role of the night
audit
After comparing, the night
auditor should come up with
the guest, non guest, and
departmental accounts.
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Role of the night
audit
The night audit shall compare all credit limits of
guests and non-guests accounts with credit card
floor limits, hotel's house limit, guest's status
and reputation. If high balance accounts (i.e.
balances for which the guest or non-guest limits
are very near to an established limit) are
detected, the night auditor shall note and report
this to management the following day.
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Role of the night
audit
Under the manual, a daily
transcript and a supplementary
transcript are used to track
daily transactions of guest and
non-guest accounts respectively.
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Night Audit focuses on 2
areas
1. Discovery and correction of
front office accounting errors
ensured through the cross-
referencing process.
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Night Audit focuses on 2
areas
2. Creation of accounting and managerial
reports including audit balance, average
rate, occupancy percentage, usage of
package plans and other marketing
programs, and the number of group rooms
and complementary rooms occupied.
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Role of a night auditor
Tracks room revenues, occupancy percentages, and other
standard hotel operating statistics.
Prepares a daily summary of cash, check, credit card,
debit card, gift certificate, and other activities that occurred
at the front desk.
Summarizes and reports the results of operations to
front office management.
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How to night
audit?
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The following steps in cond
ucting night
audit:
1. Complete outstanding
postings
2. Reconcile the room status
discripancies
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The following steps in cond
ucting night
audit:
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Departmental Balancing
Sequence
3.1 Sort the voucher according to their
departments
3.2 Consider each department’s voucher
a.) Separate the correction voucher according to
the departments they are to be applied.
b.) Total the correction for each department
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Departmental Balancing
Sequence
3.3 After verifying each of the correction with
the departments affected, total the correction
voucher on an adding machine. The
corrections tape must coincide with the
correction figures on the shift report.
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Departmental Balancing
Sequence
3.4 Consider the voucher again
3.5 The vouchers should agree with the
correcting figure of the departments. If the
tapes do not agree with either figure, check
to find the error before proceeding
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Departmental Balancing
Sequence
3.6 Print revised individual shift reports
after the correction and adjustments have
been made. In any operations made, all
back up data should be packed for the
accounting office.
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The following steps in cond
ucting night
audit:
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The following steps in cond
ucting night
audit:
7. Prepare reports
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a r tm e n t D e t a i l an d
a.) Final Dep
Summary Report
p o r t o f O p e r a ti o n
b.) Daily Re
c.) Hig h B al a n c e R ep o r t
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The following steps in cond
ucting night
audit:
8. Deposit Cash
9. Backup the system
10. Distribute report
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