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A Chartered Accountant and hotelier who turns financial information into practical operating, investment, and owner decisions.
Manish Gupta, CA, is a Chartered Accountant, Group CFO, hotelier, author, and educator with more than 23 years of experience across hospitality finance, hotel operations, reporting, budgeting, forecasting, turnarounds, ERP implementation, internal control, and multi-property leadership. He is the founder of eHotel Management School and author of the eHMS Press hotel-finance series.
Professional perspective
Manish Gupta, CA, is a Chartered Accountant, Group CFO, hotelier, author, and educator with more than 23 years of progressive experience across audit, hospitality finance, hotel operations, reporting, budgeting, forecasting, internal control, systems implementation, turnaround management, and owner-focused decision support. He currently leads group finance for CHIC, NAIA & Muzuri across hotels, development projects, commercial and residential assets, and franchised retail operations. Previously, he spent more than eight years as CFO of Myanmar Treasure Hotel and Resort, where he led an ERP rollout across 15 hotels, centralized shared services, strengthened IFRS reporting, and built budgeting and P&L capability for more than 100 managers and team members. His Shangri-La career included finance leadership in Bangkok and Chiang Mai and operational task-force assignments in Yangon, Manila, and Boracay; in Chiang Mai, he helped turn a loss-making property into a hotel generating USD 5 million in GOP. He was recognized among Asia's Top 10 CFOs in 2024. Through eHotel Management School and eHMS Press, he converts practical hospitality experience into books, courses, decision tools, and learning resources for hotel leaders, finance teams, owners, students, and educators.
“The report is not the end of the accounting process. It is the beginning of management action.”
Professional practice behind the writing
That progression shapes his books and courses: accounting accuracy matters, but so do operating context, data quality, commercial judgement, management behaviour, cash timing, asset condition, and disciplined follow-through.
Current Group CFO responsibility across hotels, hotel development, commercial and residential assets, and franchised retail operations, combining strategic finance, controls, reporting, resource allocation, and stakeholder decision support.
As CFO of Myanmar Treasure Hotel and Resort, led finance for a multi-property hotel group, implemented ERP across 15 hotels, centralized shared services, strengthened IFRS reporting, introduced management reporting and forecasting, and supported revenue and operating decisions.
At Shangri-La, held senior finance roles in Bangkok and Chiang Mai and task-force operating assignments in Yangon, Manila, and Boracay. In Chiang Mai, helped turn a loss-making hotel into a property generating USD 5 million in GOP.
Built practical P&L, budgeting, forecasting, cost management, and performance-review capability for more than 100 managers and team members, connecting finance discipline to operating accountability.
Career perspective
Manish began in audit before moving into corporate finance and international hospitality. His career progressed through hotel accounting and financial control, senior Shangri-La finance and operating assignments, multi-property CFO leadership in Myanmar, and current group-level responsibility across hospitality, development, real estate, and retail-linked assets.
That progression shapes his books and courses: accounting accuracy matters, but so do operating context, data quality, commercial judgement, management behaviour, cash timing, asset condition, and disciplined follow-through.
Books by Manish Gupta
The list comes directly from the publishing catalogue, so publication status stays aligned with the book library.
Courses and structured learning
Selected current courses remain linked to their external enrolment platforms, while eHotel Management School remains the broader learning brand.
A practical hotel-finance course covering financial terminology, hotel financial structures, financial statement analysis, performance metrics, budgeting, cost control, investment decisions, and financial health review.
View on Coursera →A hotel-specific budgeting and forecasting course focused on building budgets and forecasts, evaluating financial performance, understanding variance, and turning planning data into management action.
View on Coursera →A hospitality-focused course on evaluating business process outsourcing decisions, operating trade-offs, implementation considerations, and strategic use of external service capacity.
View on Coursera →A multi-course hospitality program focused on budgeting, forecasting, financial performance, outsourcing strategy, profitability, and financial leadership for hotel professionals.
View on Coursera →eHotel Management School · eHMS Press
Books, courses, learning resources and decision tools connect hotel-finance knowledge to operating, investment and owner decisions.