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Haaga-Helia launches Hospitality Short Courses on Estonian market

After launching its first content activity – the  Hospitality Insiders Club on September 23 - on the Estonian market Haaga-Helia Hospitality Competence Centre in Estonia (HHHCCE) continues expanding its market presence.

This time 6 different  Business Training Short Courses for hospitality enterprises on a number of key subjects requested by the local business stakeholders will be delivered starting from October.

The opening of the next HHHCCE knowhow delivery and sharing format is done on October 6th by Timo Saranpää, M.Sc.(econ.), who will coach the topic Hospitality Industry Managerial Accounting. He will cover the issues of profitability management and planning, Budgeting and investment planning and working with the operational key figures.

Timo has been working as an entrepreneur in hospitality industry for 20 years and based on his own experience he believes, that for hotel and restaurant (etc.) managers it is vitally important to understand the nature of the operational actions and their linkage with figures – and vice versa - in order to be fully able to improve the financial performance of their business.

The second day of his 2-day package will be delivered on October 28. 

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