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To: On the QT who wrote (33763)4/5/1999 3:35:00 PM
From: Chuzzlewit  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Creative accounting. Cendant may have used this model <VBG>!

Reviewing, they put up $27.00 and $2.00 surreptitiously pocketed by the bellhop = $29.00. The room original cost was $30.00.

It's a classification issue, and the missing dollar is nothing more than the difference between the $3 received by the sailors and the $2 pocketed by the bellhop.

Done properly:

The room cost $30.
The clerk keeps $25.
The bellhop keeps $2.
The sailors get $3 back

Total is $30.

The error is in adding the sailors' net out of pocket ($27) to the bellhop's in pocket, because the sailors' out of pocket already includes the bellhop's in pocket -- i.e. double counting.

TTFN,
CTC
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