TCA 221 DE - PowerPoint Project

Description: Students will gain real world experience and real world financial understanding by creating a PowerPoint Project on one of the following topics regarding hospitality financials. A maximum of 50 points can be earned for this project.

Topic Choices: Students may only choose one topic. 1. Discuss in detail how hotels can increase profits and decrease expenses without adding any revenue centers. 2. Discuss in detail some of the comprehensive financial responsibilities for hospitality managers. They can be managers at the front desk, a restaurant or in the casino (choose only one department to focus your project on). Give examples of how to stay within departmental budgets, how to control for over-time, and unexpected expenses that can come up in the department. 3. Develop a financial plan for implementation of new technology for a specific operating department of the hotel.

Requirements and Grading: Students must create a PowerPoint presentation detailing the topic of their choice. A minimum of 25 slides must be used to adequately detail your topic. Slides should be in a logical order that details your topic from beginning to end. (Picture you are turning this project in to a hotel president in hopes of securing a professional job). Be detailed in your slides, but keep slides from being to "wordy". (I do have a few overly wordy ones on the policy presentation for required material from CSN. Avoid that in your project). Use indentions and spacing so professor can easily follow your project. PowerPoints should be free from major grammatical and spelling errors. Points will be taken if professor cannot understand what you are writing. The topic chosen must be thoroughly addressed in your project. Student's projects will be reviewed for the following elements:

o Detailed presentation of topic o Real world examples were used o Presentation was organized o Introduction and closing slides were used o Student demonstrated an in-depth understanding of the subject o Student developed a well-prepared project o Financial methods discussed in the book were demonstrated and used correctly o Students project reflects current events with regard to financials and cost cutting methods (don't use outdated strategies with regard to these topics, example; saying you will add color TV's in the hotel rooms or charge for in room calls) o Project was based on currently available technologies and strategies. (Don't talk about robots that do not exist! Must be technologies that are currently available)

Platform Requirements and Turn-in: Students will create a detailed, well developed PowerPoint presentation. Videos are discouraged for time and technology limitations. Students must use Microsoft PowerPoint for this project (if you use another type of presentation platform I must be able to view it. CSN computers and my personal computer are NOT Macs)! Other platforms are acceptable as long as you do a "test send" via CANVAS e-mail. I will check it and make sure I can view your work. You must do this before the due date if you are using other platforms than PowerPoint. No test send is required for stand PowerPoint platforms. The completed Project must be turned in via CANVAS in the designated assignment upload section. Points will be taken if you submit your completed project in any other way. Using professors CSN mail or Canvas Mail will not be considered acceptable and project may not be graded