CLIA MCC study plan

Map the innkeeper-guest legal relationship by drafting a one-page table distinguishing a guest from a trespasser, a lodger, and a boarder, citing the duty owed to each.

Reconstruct the common-law innkeeper's duty of care and the modern statutory limits on liability for guest property, including safe-deposit provisions, and note where your state's statute departs from the common law.

Outline the eviction-versus-ejectment distinction by writing the procedural steps a hotel must follow to remove a guest who overstays versus one who becomes a tenant.

Identify the regulatory bodies that inspect and license lodging establishments in your jurisdiction and list the records they can demand during an inspection.

Draft a compliance checklist for posting and recordkeeping obligations under wage, safety, and innkeeping statutes, marking which postings are federal, state, or local.

Explain the tip-credit and service-charge rules by writing three worked payroll examples: a tipped server under the credit, a banqueting server on a mandatory service charge, and a pooled-tip distribution.

Classify five hypothetical hotel workers (front desk, housekeeper, maintenance tech, night auditor, salaried assistant manager) as exempt or nonexempt under the salary-basis and duties tests, and justify each with the controlling test element.

Summarize the rules on calculating overtime for employees who receive a salary plus a bonus or shift differential.

Build a weekly schedule for a 60-room hotel that satisfies meal-and-rest-break rules, spread-of-hours pay, and predictive-scheduling notice requirements, and annotate where each rule bites.

Calculate regular rate of pay for an employee with hourly wages, a shift differential, and a nondiscretionary bonus, showing each step of the math.

Distinguish employee from independent contractor for a contract housekeeping crew using the economic-realities and ABC tests, and state which test your state applies.

List the recordkeeping retention periods for time records, payroll, and tip records, and identify which agency enforces each.

Trace the flow of transient occupancy tax from guest folio to remittance by diagramming taxable receipts, exemptions, and the filing calendar for one jurisdiction.

Compute occupancy tax, sales tax on food and beverage, and the treatment of complimentary and house-use rooms in a worked example covering a ten-room-night period.

Differentiate the accounting treatment of rooms revenue, ancillary revenue, and resort or destination fees, and explain how each appears on the income statement.

Explain the purpose and mechanics of the Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Industry by mapping five common hotel expenses to their departmental schedules.

Build a departmental budget for a 60-room limited-service hotel covering rooms, housekeeping, and administrative departments, with payroll and cost-per-occupied-room ratios.

Calculate and interpret occupancy percentage, average daily rate, and revenue per available room for a 30-day period, and explain what each metric conceals.

Explain the role of the night audit in revenue integrity by listing the checks it performs and the errors it is designed to catch.

Distinguish cash, accrual, and modified cash accounting as applied to a hotel, and identify which basis your ownership structure most likely uses.

Segment a hotel's demand into transient, group, corporate, and OTA channels, and assign a target mix with rationale for a 60-room property.

Evaluate a rate-fencing strategy by constructing three rate tiers with length-of-stay, advance-purchase, and cancellation restrictions, and predict the displacement risk of each.

Analyze the economics of third-party distribution by computing net revenue per channel after commission, and rank channels by net contribution.

Design a direct-booking incentive and state the metric you would use to judge whether it worked.

Draft a one-page advocacy position on a pending local ordinance affecting lodging (for example, a short-term-rental regulation or a tourism-assessment district), including the ask, the supporting data, and the counterargument you expect.

Map the government-relations landscape by identifying the trade associations, local lodging council, and legislative committees that influence your property's operating environment.

Explain how a tourism improvement district or business improvement district is formed and funded, and describe the hotel's obligations once it is in place.

Prepare talking points explaining the difference between a general occupancy tax and a dedicated tourism assessment, for use with a county commissioner.

Synthesize the five domains by writing a 20-question self-test weighted to the exam blueprint and scoring it, then re-study the two weakest domains.

Rehearse the highest-risk computations under time pressure: regular rate and overtime, occupancy tax remittance, and RevPAR.

Assemble a one-page quick-reference sheet of formulas, deadlines, and posting requirements for final review.

Identify remaining knowledge gaps and schedule two follow-up study blocks for after the exam week.