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Security in the Office

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What measures should office employees take to ensure office security?
Why is office security important?
Office security is important because security threats, in particular, theft and embezzlement, do take place in small businesses.
What is embezzlement?
Embezzlement occurs when the company’s property are misappropriated by the employee whom the property is entrusted. In simple terms, this is the act of the employees stealing property from their own company.
What warning signs of embezzlement should employees look out for?
• An increase in overall sales returns could mean that the accounts receivable payments of the company have been concealed.
• If there are unusual bad-debts within the company, this could mean employee fraud has taken place in the company. In addition, if the cash or credit sales has declined or increased slightly from previous period, this could mean that some of the company’s sales are not recorded.
• Bounced checks received by the companies could mean that funds are being taken out from the business’ bank account without authority.
• Shortages of inventory could mean that employee pilferage has taken place within the company.
• A decline in profit and an increase in expenses incurred by the company can mean that cash is withdrawn from the company’s account illegitimately.
• Slow collection of business accounts receivable can be used by employees to hide embezzlement.
Steps to preventing employee embezzlement:
In order to prevent dishonest acts from

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