>> My name is Jack Fritche, I am an accountant.
I currently work for Donohoe Hospitality Services; it's a hotel management company,
a division of the Donohoe Company which is the second oldest construction company
in the D.C. area.
I've been there about 10 years, started by career in 1989 at...in public accounting
in Philadelphia, found my way down here.
My public clients were in the construction and real estate industry,
so when I got out of public and into private,
I've been in the real estate industry pretty much ever since.
Every day is not typical, but generally speaking one thing that's interesting
about the hospitality industry is we're always on 24/7 because we...it's our responsibility
to make sure that there are no issues in the hotels or the guests.
But a typical day for me, I will come in, once things get settled, usually I'll do a lap
around the office, make sure that my folks don't need me and then depending on what's going
on at any given time, you know we do have a fair amount of meetings,
we work very hard to minimize meeting time so we have work time.
But I do a lot of the strategic planning, strategic management.
Right now we happen to be in budget season so I'll come in, we'll work with...I'll work
with my team to make sure that we're collating data on performance, we do a lot of reporting
to third parties, asset managers, our mortgage lenders,
so the majority of my day is making sure that all of our reporting is complete,
it's accurate, we're in compliance.
There are in the D.C. area, there's a lot of monthly, quarterly, annual taxes.
I also make sure that the payroll is running, so I have responsibility for all the accounting
and all of the HR in the management company.