Managerial Accounting
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ISBN: 9781337912020
Author: Carl Warren, Ph.d. Cma William B. Tayler
Publisher: South-Western College Pub
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Chapter 1, Problem 1MAD
Comfort Plus, Inc., has a hotel with 300 rooms in a metropolitan city. Its main competitor, Connors Hotel, has a hotel with 350 rooms in the same city. The following operating data are available for April for the two hotels:
- a. Determine the guest nights for each hotel in April.
- b. Determine the available room nights for each hotel in April.
- c. Determine the occupancy rate for each hotel in April.
- d. Which hotel has the better utilization of capacity in April?
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