Founders Press		Client Case Study: AmerInns Building a Better Budget Client needs AmerInns Corp. owns and operates nine Marriott and Hilton hotels in Ohio. Like many multi-units companies, AmerInns found that creating its yearly operating budget was burdensome and time-consuming. The general managers and corporate staff dreaded the process of passing extensive spreadsheets back and forth, and they were dissatisfied with the sometimes-inaccurate final product. The company wanted to make its budget more accurate and the process more efficient, so it turned to Statability for help. Services Provided Statability helped AmerInns revamp its budgeting process by: Researching AmerInns' current budgeting process to determine inefficiencies Developing specialized software to help create its yearly budget Training AmerInns managers on the easy-to-use software Implementing a two-day focused budget meeting between the local general managers and the corporate staff to replace the previous five-month, fragmented budgeting process Working with the corporate staff before the budget meeting to ensure they had all necessary historical data Outcome and Client Benefits AmerInns reduced the time its managers and corporate team spent on creating the annual operating budget from five months to less than 30 days. In addition to the time savings, AmerInns is benefiting from a more accurate operating budget and greatly improved employee attitudes toward the budgeting process.
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