This second edition remains a user friendly and hands-on introduction to finance and accounting in the hospitality industry. This fully revised and updated edition continues to be a must-have text for all students of Hospitality and a companion for all managers and employees, and allows them to put their learning into practice to achieve immediate results. Updated throughout with extensive new material especially in the fields of managing revenue and the use of spreadsheets, it covers a vast range of sectors (including hotels, restaurants, contract catering, leisure tourism, events, cruise ships and theme parks). Each chapter has a full set of learning features, such as bulleted objectives and summaries, case studies and examples, review questions and activities. Accompanying the text is a suite of online resources including self-test multi-choice questions to evaluate understanding, links to further resources and solutions to exercises in the text.