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Independent hotel assessment
EPV examines revenue, costs, operations and leadership. Understand what is holding back your hotel’s performance and where to focus first.
An independent diagnosis. Up to three priorities for your next decision.
Discuss Total Health Check
01 / THE OUTPUT
An independent diagnosis. Up to three priorities for your next decision.
The key findings and what they mean for your hotel.
The most important gaps in performance, value or management control, ranked by significance.
The financial significance is quantified where the available information supports it.
What needs attention now, next and later.
Recommended actions for the next 30, 60 and 90 days.
A clear recommendation on how to proceed.
The Total Health Check can be commissioned independently. You receive findings, economic context and priorities. Any implementation or assumption of a leadership role is agreed separately.
02 / THE PROCESS
Provide existing documents and explicitly identify data that genuinely does not exist.
Existing information is reviewed systematically before the on-site diagnosis.
Two days at your hotel: EPV examines the information, operating processes and how leadership and the team work together.
Findings and an action plan for 30, 60 and 90 days. Target: 14 calendar days once the required information is complete (or explicitly declared unavailable) and the on-site appointment is confirmed.
03 / SCOPE & DETAIL
The Total Health Check provides the economic basis for your decision. Implementation, development support or an executive leadership role is agreed separately. Technical due diligence, accounting, legal or tax reviews and a full service audit are outside the diagnostic scope.
Review revenue, finances, processes and leadership together. Identify existing and unused value first, then improve with focus.
Before the mandate decision
Strong occupancy alone does not explain falling earnings. The Total Health Check considers revenue quality, costs, operations and leadership together, in relation to the owner’s specific decision.
Is the trigger an investment, margin decline, leadership change or preparation for transformation? The situation and decision date determine which causes need reliable clarification. Diagnosis remains independent of any potential implementation mandate.
The Minimum Viable Data Pack reviews available results and budgets, revenue and occupancy trends, cost structure and organisational information. Periods, comparability and gaps are clarified first. Unsupported effects are not presented as promised savings.
The report brings together up to three of the most important gaps, their financial significance where supported by the information and a plan for 30, 60 and 90 days. Findings, assessment and recommendations are kept distinct. Operating implementation, technical due diligence and accounting review are not included.
AB│LE is a separate, bounded financial diagnostic entry point; GEN│RAL supports ongoing controlling. Neither a product purchase nor an AB│LE report is required for the THC. Taking executive responsibility requires a separate Executive Mandate.
A practical decision guide
Occupancy measures utilised capacity, not its economic contribution. First establish whether revenue quality, distribution costs and labour costs cover the same period and operating scope. Only then can you distinguish revenue pressure, cost pressure and a misleading comparison.
Consider rates, segment mix, discounts, cancellations and distribution costs together. More occupied rooms can coincide with weaker earnings; test the cause against available data rather than assuming it.
Compare labour hours, service scope and purchasing or operating costs with demand. Rising costs do not automatically mean inefficiency if the offer, opening hours or level of service have changed.
Identify seasonality, one-off effects, changed allocations and data gaps. The THC connects these findings to the owner’s decision; one indicator implies neither promised savings nor an automatic implementation mandate.
Professional basis: operating leadership, business accountability and the EPV │ Method.
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Real mandates create evidence. EPV │ Intelligence distils it. EPV │ OS connects knowledge, standards and decisions. Application remains the responsibility of the executive.
Impact is reviewed. Validated learning returns to the system under control.
For clearly bounded financial questions, the AB│LE Financial Health Check may be a suitable alternative: €790 net per entity or property, with at least twelve monthly periods. It is not a prerequisite for the THC.
AB│LE Financial Health Check: scope and boundariesDecision intelligence
The executive diagnosis creates a robust basis for the owner’s next decision.
The EPV Total Health Check connects commercial, financial, operational and organisational evidence. It identifies why margin or performance is deviating and which three priorities matter most for the next management decision.
Before investment, transformation or a leadership change, or whenever the economic causes are not sufficiently clear. The result is not a long advisory report but a prioritised 30/60/90 action framework for owners and management.
The Minimum Viable Data Pack draws on existing results and budgets, revenue and occupancy data, and information on costs, organisation and operations. The specific selection follows the decision question. Periods, quality and missing information are made explicit before assessment.
No. The THC can be commissioned independently. AB│LE offers a separate, bounded Financial Health Check; GEN│RAL supports ongoing controlling. Neither replaces the cross-functional executive diagnosis or a separately commissioned implementation mandate.
The THC provides findings, economic assessment and prioritised recommendations, not a guaranteed improvement in results. Effects are quantified only where the evidence supports them. Operating implementation, technical due diligence and accounting review are excluded.
Create clarity before deciding.
We discuss your question, the information you have and whether the Total Health Check is right for you.
Scope and commercial terms are agreed before any engagement.
