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5 standards for “employee separation”

FIN-036·Finance & Accountingcompany

Payroll reconciliation

Reconcile every payroll run against approved time records and prior periods so employees are paid accurately and payroll fraud has nowhere to hide. Payroll is the property ... most personal one — an error is a broken promise to an employee. Independent reconciliation and one-up review catch mistakes and manipulation before checks are issued, not after

FIN-003·Finance & Accountingcompany

Cash bank issuance and reconciliation

continuously verifiable. A cash bank is a personal contract of trust between the employee and the property. Clean issuance and reconciliation records mean audits take minutes, disputes ... rare, and no employee is ever left defending a bank they cannot prove they received correctly

FIN-002·Finance & Accountingcompany

Cash handling

process gaps. Investigating every variance the same day, at any amount, protects honest employees and catches real problems while the facts are still fresh

FIN-020·Finance & Accountingcompany

Petty cash

money with outsized cultural weight: it is often the first control a new employee sees tested. A fund that always balances, run by the book, teaches the property

FIN-062·Finance & Accountingcompany

Void, Discount, and Adjustment Audit Review

running proves a question worth asking. Auditing by pattern protects the many honest employees whose exceptions are exactly what they appear