Show me the Money
GCO's largest expense line on the Profit & Loss Statement.
What is Marketing Expense?
The nickname for cameras used in a casino
What is the 'Eye in the Sky'?
CapEx
What are Capital Expenditures?
This group is prohibited from gambling while onboard (name any one group).
Who are:
Global Casino Operations (GCO) employees (ship and shore) and their family?
Cruise line employees directly involved with casino marketing (ship and shore) and their family?
Risk Advisory Assurance Services (RAAS) employees?
Senior Vice Presidents and above?
Members of the Board of Directors?
Government officials traveling to meet ship and/or traveling onboard a ship for official purposes?
Onboard staff and crew while on active contract? Guest Entertainers that are designated as Seafarers?
Casino Contractors?
This starts in December, but ends in November of the following year.
What is our Fiscal Calendar?
This is the share of incentivized casino cabins we expect to fill globally in 2024, as a % of total cabins.
+ / - 1% will be accepted.
What is 11%?
The in-house name for our 'Watchlist' or what happens if you get punched in the eye.
What is 'Black & Blue'?
SAR
What is a Suspicious Activity Report?
An amount of money that may be loaned to player for the purposes of wagering in the casino, or something used to highlight words
What is a Marker?
This 3-digit number is the Global Casino Operations company code.
What is 201?
This % is the overall Corporate capacity growth we are expecting to see from 2023 to 2024.
What is 5%?
This is what we file when a patron's currency transactions in/out exceed $10,000 in a single day.
What is a CTR / Currency Transaction Report?
SG&A
What is Selling, General, & Administrative?
This is how shipboard staff login to CMAS / SURF
What are biometrics or fingerprint?
Money owed to Carnival by a vendor would be considered this type of balance sheet item.
What are Accounts Receivable?
The amount of non-Newbuild capital we were approved for in 2024.
Accepting +/- $5MM.
What is $68MM?
This is when a patron deliberately executes smaller transactions to avoid a specific threshold.
What is structuring?
MTL
What is a Multiple Transaction Log?
This is the threshold in which a USD bill must be checked for authenticity using a counterfeit bill detector pen.
What is $50?
This 4 digit number is our Shoreside Cost Center.
What is 2815?
The % of Global Gaming Revenue that comes from our largest 3 brands (CCL, PCL, HAL).
+/- 1% will be accepted
What is 94%?
This is the amount of cameras we currently have covering our table games, slot floor, cage, casino office, and count rooms.
(+/- 250 accepted)
What is 3,500?
EBITDA
What is Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization?
This is the frequency in which a main bank audit must take place.
What is at least every 14 days?
This is the name of the IRS form we send when a US guest wins a jackpot of $1,200 or more at a slot machine.
What is a W2-G?