Timeline for What should a low-level employee do when contacted by a salesman?
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| Jan 7, 2020 at 17:54 | comment | added | Karl | @Philipp I guess so. You either do your accounting strictly by the book (pun intended), or have a software that forces you. The excel sheet alternative sounds like a straight road to hell and bankrupcy. ;) | |
| Jan 7, 2020 at 17:33 | comment | added | Philipp | @Karl Sure, a large company which can afford an ERP software suit would notice that. But in many smaller companies, the "accounting software" is an excel sheet or worse the owner's personal paper notebook. | |
| Jan 6, 2020 at 20:59 | comment | added | user47813 | Remind me of Google (not sure if it's a real story). A scammer sent random bills to them regularly and they paid on time without verifying properly. | |
| Jan 6, 2020 at 17:33 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | @Karl well, that would be good internal controls, wouldn't it? :) And yeah, if they used the accounting system properly, they'd need to create a new "vendor", another red flag. In practice, of course, small businesses don't like all that paperwork. (Joe entering the order, either on a networked accounting system, or sending yet another sheet of paper to the bookkeeper). That's why enough weak businesses exist to justify the scammers' human effort. | |
| Jan 6, 2020 at 17:22 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | @MSalters That becomes a single point of failure when the same eyes start to blur everything together. How do they know Joe didn't really order fluorescent tubes? It's a perfectly reasonable thing to order. What you're really talking about is diligence, i.e. asking Joe if a fluorescent light order is legit. Humans suck at scanning a sea of normal for aberrations. | |
| Jan 6, 2020 at 15:58 | comment | added | dwizum | The copier toner scammers in my city got really aggressive about a decade ago - they started physically following the (legitimate) delivery trucks from one of the local copier supply places, and watch them unload new machines, so they'd know which companies got deliveries of which machines. Then they'd call you and tell you that it was time to reorder toner for your such-and-such printer... | |
| Jan 6, 2020 at 15:35 | comment | added | Karl | How can you pay a bill (i.e. convince your accounting software to mark it "payable") when your system has no order to assign it to? I mean, technically. ;) | |
| Jan 6, 2020 at 10:43 | comment | added | MSalters | @Harper-ReinstateMonica: Why? It's not unusual for them to have a four-eyes policy (don't pay until two people agree it should be paid). | |
| Jan 6, 2020 at 3:21 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | @Acccumulation While true in principle, it creates a single point of failure in the accounting office. | |
| Jan 6, 2020 at 2:39 | comment | added | Acccumulation | The main failing is paying a bill without verifying authorization. While there's some value in other employees not giving accounts payable opportunities to fuck up, the primary focus should be on accounts payable not fucking up. | |
| Jan 6, 2020 at 2:07 | history | edited | Harper - Reinstate Monica | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 6, 2020 at 1:55 | history | answered | Harper - Reinstate Monica | CC BY-SA 4.0 |