TOPICS INCLUDE...

• Cost Centers
• Accounting Centers
• Accounts Receivable
• Accounts Payable
• Program Cost Estimating & Tracking
• Purchasing
• Cash vs. Accrual
• Depreciation
• Capital Improvements
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This Course focuses on topics that are related to the tracking of fees and how to insure that you have systems in place to ensure proper accountability for the facility.

Proper financial practices will allow a facility to survive and thrive in a very tough business. Having proper accounting practices will provide the rink operator with the information needed to make good programming decisions.

At times the rink industry is basing program rates on what the market is and not accounting for the facilities actual costs. This will lead to financial problems in a short time. By understanding the finances and costs of the facility, and ways to maximize these finances, a skating facility can survive in a low margin situation.