HFTP Certificates

Certificates provide valuable instruction, training and most importantly, recognition of a specific practice or skillset. Upon successful completion of a certificate course, registrants will receive a digital badge recognizing their achievement.

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Important Note

You must first have an HFTP User Account and be logged in to view and purchase certificate courses in the online HFTP Portal Store.

Benchmarking Certificate

The course emphasis connects benchmarking as an essential tool for any profitability tool chest. Each course module is organized to explain the concepts and provide practical applications, incorporating these concepts into daily, weekly or monthly analysis.

Areas of concentration:

  • Basics of Operational Benchmarking

  • (KPIs) Meet the KPIs and Indices

  • My Hotel's P&L

  • Choosing the Proper Competitive (Comp) Set

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New! Club Finances Certificates

HFTP Academy’s latest certificate program is designed to improve the skills and understanding of accounting for varying skill levels and audiences within the club environment.

Club Finances for Bookkeepers and Junior Accountants (Now Available) — An introduction of the basics, including fundamentals such as balance sheets, assets, liability, and the overall accounting cycle.

Club Finances for Accountants (Coming Soon) — A deeper understanding of the accounting process for smaller operations and specialty personnel with notes on payroll, budgets, and leasing.

Club Finances for Managers (Coming Soon) — An expansion of financial topics with a focus on ratio analysis, budget analysis, internal controls, and ethics.

The Accountants and Managers certificates will be available later in Spring 2024.

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Maintenance

Continuing Education Points

HFTP will award the following continuing education points towards the maintenance renewal requirements for the Certified Hospitality Accountant Executive (CHAE ®) and/or the Certified Hospitality Technology Professional (CHTP ®) only:

  • USALI-11 Certificate Bundle (Theory and Practice): 72 CPE

  • USALI-11 Certificate (Theory or Practice): 36 CPE

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Train Your Entire Team

The HFTP Academy Hospitality Certificates are not just for finance and technology professionals. Your entire management team can benefit from understanding how to evaluate and analyze financial statements. These courses make an ideal platform for any management development program, as well. Email [email protected] for special pricing options if you are interested in using these courses company-wide.