Higher Diploma in Hospitality Accounting and Finance
Course Overview
The Higher Diploma in Hospitality Accounting and Finance is a 15 to 18-month UK Level 5 qualification aligned with HOSPA and Institute of Hospitality finance frameworks. It articulates cleanly into a UK Bachelor top-up in accounting, finance or hospitality management, and is designed for finance clerks, cost controllers, F&B associates and hotel supervisors moving into graduate-level UK finance practice.
By graduation, students can produce departmental P&L reports for a hotel or restaurant, run night-audit reconciliations, defend a monthly cost report, and support annual budget cycles alongside senior finance leaders.
Key Features
- Level 5 syllabus benchmarked to HOSPA Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Industry themes.
- Applied labs using hotel and restaurant P&L structures, night-audit packs and revenue statements.
- Structured workplace or capstone project written to a real hospitality finance brief.
- Credit transfer confirmed in writing into UK Bachelor top-ups in accounting and hospitality.
- Named programme tutor drawn from hotel finance and restaurant controllership.
- Access to HOSPA and Institute of Hospitality student membership pathways.
What You Will Learn
- Build and read a hotel departmental profit-and-loss statement to HOSPA conventions.
- Run daily revenue reports, flash reports and month-end reconciliations.
- Cost menus and beverage lists with target gross-profit discipline.
- Manage payroll, tronc and service charge structures in UK hospitality.
- Prepare annual operating budgets, capex requests and cash-flow forecasts.
- Investigate variances and present findings to a general manager.
- Apply UK VAT and tax basics relevant to hotel, restaurant and event operations.
- Interpret revenue management reports and support forecasting cycles.
Who This Course Is For
- Finance clerks, night auditors and cost controllers targeting graduate-level roles.
- F&B associates and hotel supervisors moving into finance and revenue teams.
- Applicants planning a UK Bachelor top-up in accounting or hospitality management.
- International applicants building UK-recognised hospitality finance credentials.
- Career changers from general accounting entering the hospitality sector.
Career Pathways
- Hospitality Finance Analyst
- Cost Controller
- Assistant Financial Controller
- Revenue Manager
- Food & Beverage Cost Controller
- Night Auditor Team Leader
- Restaurant Business Analyst
- Cluster Revenue Analyst
The LSCAHM careers service connects Higher Diploma finance students with hotel finance teams, restaurant group head offices and hospitality consultancies recruiting cost controllers and revenue analysts across London.
Entry Requirements
- A relevant Diploma (Level 4) in hospitality, business or accounting, an Advanced Diploma or comparable qualification.
- GCSE English at grade 4/C and Mathematics at grade 4/C or equivalent.
- IELTS 6.0 overall (no band below 5.5) for non-native English speakers.
- One academic or professional reference from a tutor or line manager.
- Working professionals moving from commis chef, F&B associate, hotel supervisor or finance-clerk roles are welcomed.
Why Study at LSCAHM
The London School of Culinary Arts and Hospitality Management is a specialist division of Harold International College of London teaching in small, tutor-visible cohorts. LSCAHM reads culinary arts, hospitality management, tourism, events and food business as interlocking disciplines, so finance is taught alongside operations, service and menu-development context.
Central London places luxury hotel groups, HOSPA, the Institute of Hospitality and hospitality consultancies within a short tube ride of every classroom, and three parallel study modes let working finance practitioners complete their programme without leaving employment.
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