Is your organization brand reporting ready?

Does your group operate 3 or more hotel properties?

Are properties spread across more than one legal entity or ownership structure?

Do you report in more than one currency across the portfolio?

Do you plan to add or acquire properties in the next 12 months?

Do at least two properties use different accounting systems (e.g. QuickBooks, Sage Intacct, Xero, M3)?

Can you export a trial balance from every property in a repeatable format?

Do you re-key or copy-paste property numbers into a master spreadsheet each month?

Have you ever missed a reporting deadline because a property's data arrived late?

Do properties use inconsistent account names or numbers for the same line items?

Do you have a documented group chart of accounts?

Is your reporting broadly USALI-aligned (Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Industry)?

Do you spend more than a day each month mapping or reclassifying accounts by hand?

Does your monthly close take longer than 10 business days?

Have you posted material adjustments after a board pack was already circulated?

Do intercompany transactions require manual elimination each period?

Is there a documented, repeatable month-end checklist across all properties?

Do you track RevPAR, ADR, and occupancy consistently across every property?

Do you report GOP margin and flow-through at the property and consolidated level?

Do you measure labor productivity (cost per occupied room, hours per room)?

Do PMS/operational figures reconcile cleanly to the general ledger each month?

Do you produce an annual budget per property that rolls up to the group?

Do you report actual-vs-budget variance monthly, with drill-down to the account?

Do you maintain a rolling forecast (3, 6, or 12 months forward)?

Can leadership see prior-year comparisons alongside current results without extra work?

Do you produce a formal monthly or quarterly board pack?

Does the board pack include written commentary on drivers and variances?

Is the board pack visually consistent month over month (same structure, footnotes, groupings)?

Do board members ask follow-up questions that require going back to source data?

Is there a named owner of consolidated group reporting?

Does the finance team spend more than 25% of the month producing recurring reports?

Has key reporting knowledge ever been concentrated in one person (bus-factor risk)?

Would hiring another analyst be your default answer to "we need more reports"?

Is your primary consolidation tool a spreadsheet (Excel, Google Sheets)?

Do you have version-control problems ("which file is the final one?")?

Are figures ever emailed as attachments rather than shared through a system?

Would you struggle to reproduce last March's board pack exactly as it was sent?

Is there an audit trail showing who changed which figure and when?

Do reports go through a formal review-and-approval step before release?

Do you enforce property-level access controls (users only see their property)?

Have investors, lenders, or auditors ever asked for a level of detail you couldn't easily produce?