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Nvq Bank Account

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Continuing with the local merchant I covered in Unit 5. The merchant is a general retail store that sells everything from homeware, home entertainment such as DVD's and speakers, stationary and small business supplies, plants, sporting items, toys, adult and children's clothes. The store uses physical barriers, alarms, cameras, store personal for during store hours and external security personal for outside of store hours to protect asset loss from external theft. For asset protection from internal theft, the store uses cameras and internal staff to monitor other staff to address this. Internal to external exists including ones in other parts of the building which are staff access only are also alarmed to prevent and deter internal theft. …show more content…

This multi-person double checking system reduces the risk of employees altering records or signing off on cash counts by themselves for self-interest. Accounts and Bank Accounts This also applies to staff handling accounts. The staff that work on day to day journal entries and record keeping do not have access to the firm's bank accounts or bank reconciliation. Bank Accounts are accessed by senior accountants at the head office placing a different group of people to check bank records and transactions match the accounting system. Authorised Bank Transactions It would be safe to assume that the head office also has different access levels and not all accounting staff would have access to make payments via the bank system. While I don't know this side it would be logically as a security mechanism to implement it this way. By implementing and maintain multi-person checking systems, physical and electronic barriers and only allowing the minimum number of necessary people access to areas, cash and the ability to do certain tasks it helps ensure the safety of the company's assets. Different employees in the accounts department having checks in place to confirm balances match ensures that cash and equivalents are

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