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Prevent Embezzlement with the How to Prevent Embezzlement Manual Template Word

Embezzlement is a serious crime that can cause significant financial losses for businesses. It is essential to have a plan in place to prevent embezzlement from occurring in your organization. The How to Prevent Embezzlement Manual Template Word is a comprehensive guide that can help you create a plan to prevent embezzlement.

The manual template is easy to use and customizable to fit the needs of your organization. It includes step-by-step instructions on how to identify potential embezzlement risks, how to implement internal controls to prevent embezzlement, and how to detect and respond to embezzlement if it does occur.

The manual template is designed to be used by businesses of all sizes and industries. It is suitable for small businesses, non-profit organizations, and large corporations. The template is available in Microsoft Word format, making it easy to edit and customize to fit your specific needs.

The How to Prevent Embezzlement Manual Template Word is an essential tool for any business that wants to protect itself from financial losses due to embezzlement. By implementing the strategies outlined in the manual, you can create a culture of honesty and integrity in your organization, which can help prevent embezzlement from occurring in the first place.

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Would Embezzlement be a Disaster at Your Company?

Embezzlement Prevention is about identifying your company’s structure, and the manner in which various functions are assigned, in order to reduce “windows of opportunity” for embezzlers to act. Because embezzlement is generally a financial “habit” crime made up of a series of rhythmic, predictable and cyclic events, it becomes a simple matter to answer the question of just why certain types of companies are so susceptible to embezzling. Besides the fact that many companies store important assets like money, property and data, remember that most companies function in a traditional way.

Traditional Embezzlement:

A property theft activity that is conducted in a conventional, established, predictable, common and habitual manner.

If an employee wants to embezzle, he/she does not want to work within an industry whose unpredictable operations may expose the fraud. The embezzler must plan the misappropriation to take advantage of the opportunities presented by the rhythmic, cyclical and predictable pattern of accounting tasks and financial events.

Embezzlement Prevention Opportunities

Have you performed a “Loss Prevention Audit and Examination” to locate your company’s windows of opportunity? This risk assessment is the first step to closing those windows.

Opportunities for Embezzlement or stealing are generally available within each of the following categories:

Policies and procedures
Personnel
Documents
Computers and records
Facilities

A company’s “corporate culture” is a significant factor when determining the company’s vulnerability to misuse and misappropriation.

Corporate Culture

An environment influenced by the prevalent morals, ethics, ideals, and standards for behavior as developed, implemented and demonstrated by management: the company’s conscience.

Embezzlement Prevention = Ethical Codes

Many financial auditors and other risk managers recommend that a company’s board of directors require the company to adopt ethical codes as a start to Embezzlement Prevention. This “Code of Conduct” is an excellent method to communicate with employees and to describe acceptable standards of behavior. This communication should deal with the solicitation and receipt of things of value; conflicts of interest; use of confidential information; and cooperation with internal investigations.

A Code of Conduct Deters Embezzlers

The company’s Code of Conduct should clearly state that an employee’s failure to cooperate with an internal investigation will subject the employee to discipline, up to and including termination. The Code of Conduct may also explain the right of the company to suspend an employee, with or without pay, during the conduct of an investigation.

Terms in the company’s Code of Conduct are often enforceable as contractual rights. Companies should be careful not to include exaggerated statements concerning standards of conduct that they are not willing to enforce in a universal manner. The selective enforcement of a Code of Conduct could result in the company not being allowed to enforce it against an employee suspected of unlawful activities.

Employees need to be shown where they fit into the company; need to know what the company stands for and what it won’t allow; and need to be led by example. If the company fails to communicate effectively its response to any of these needs, it is preparing the means for its own destruction. Embezzlers themselves cite these reasons for the discontentment that led them to commit their crimes.

The company’s Employee Handbook should include your Code of Conduct statement, which is also an excellent device to describe an employee’s rights and obligations. Employees who believe that they are treated fairly, and treated as every other employee, are less likely to become discontented and reduce the basic areas of concern that provide embezzlers the means and the motivation to commit the crime.

Reduce Embezzlement Opportunities

Break the embezzler’s windows of opportunities. Don’t let embezzlement happen at your company. Get started on your Embezzlement Prevention program today by introducing internal controls that include:

Developing an Embezzlement Prevention Guide
Regular audits of important processes
A Code of Conduct
Policies and procedures with checks and balances
Continuous improvement to change process cycles, habits, and predictable patterns

Download free policies and procedures you can use for financial internal controls to reduce embezzlement opportunities in accounting, using information technology, or within your facilities.

Embezzlement is the most common financial crime in the nation and a predominant factor in the failure of all types of businesses — large and small. Losses attributed to acts of embezzlement are more significant than losses attributed to all other types of business crimes combined.

Fee Embezzlement Prevention Manual

This Embezzlement Prevention Manual is included in the Accounting Policies and Procedures Manual. So, you get this guide for free when you purchase the Accounting Policies Procedures Manual.

Use the Embezzlement Prevention Manual Before Trouble Starts

This Embezzlement Prevention Guide offers a strategic approach to reducing losses from internal crimes. This Guide contains an introduction to embezzlement, a detailed training program and reference guide to help customize a comprehensive embezzlement prevention program for your company covering all employee levels: staff, management and executive.