[GNC] Be careful with `petty cash'
Adrien Monteleone
adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net
Thu Sep 10 18:14:58 EDT 2020
Yes, forgot about that, thanks. I've used similar procedures.
Regards,
Adrien
On 9/10/20 4:54 PM, Michael or Penny Novack wrote:
> On 9/10/2020 5:29 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
>> I'm not sure what you are referencing by 'paying-in slip'.
>
> POSSIBLY something else. For example, there is an annual event at which
> a "teacup auction" takes place. There is both cash and checks placed in
> the can when people buy tickets, sometimes somebody there, but usually
> honor system.
>
> But unwise to trust honor too far. My normal practice is every few hours
> to remove some amount of currency leaving just enough for change and
> replacing what I took out with a signed, dated, time stamped slip for
> what I have removed. Those included with the (witnessed) currency count.
>
> I would then make good those slips (and remaining currency) with a
> check. It might be days till whoever was Treasurer back home and could
> make a deposit. Not everybody attending is even from the same country,
> let alone state. But I'd be home 3 hours after the event ended so less
> a nuisance for me to hold currency.
>
> The point is, I could see somebody doing the same thing with an
> unguarded collection box, replacing currency with a slip.
>
> Michael D Novack
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