The Rocky Mountain Hotel, is a resort hotel is in Crested Butte, Colorado. For the hotel, management expects occupancy rates to be 95% in December, January, February and March; 85% in November and April; and 70% the rest of the year. This hotel has 325 rooms and the room rental is $250.00 per night. Of this, on average 10% is received as a deposit the month before the stay, 60% is received in the month of the stay, and 28% is collected the month after. The remaining 2% is never collected and assumed bad debt in the month after as a sales & general admin cost.

Most of the costs of running the hotel are fixed. The variable costs are only $40.00 per occupied room, per night. Fixed salaries (including benefits) run $400,000 per month, depreciation is estimated to be $360,000 a month, other fixed costs are $165,000 per month, and interest expense is $550,000 per month. Fixed, variable costs and salaries are paid in the month they are incurred, depreciation is only recorded at the end of each quarter and interest is paid semi-annually each June and December.

Financial statements should have proper heading, titles and format for the period they cover. You are making a presentation to a client. Summarize your answers & conclusions for each part in a textbox. The template is just an idea starter.

1. The client wants to know: How much would the hotel's annual net profit increase if occupancy increased by 5 percentage points during the off season (that is from 70% to 75%) in each month from May to October.
2. The client wants to know the contribution margin per room at each occupancy level.
3. The client wants to know the annual breakeven point of rooms required to be occupied at the hotel annually at each occupancy level.