Internal controls: 24 ways to protect your cash, checks, and assets
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Business owners must protect themselves from costly employee embezzlement and theft. There are 24 steps that they can take to do so. These include having a single person responsible for petty cash disbursements, assigning the person tasked with signing checks to review all supporting documents and reconciling bank statements every month. Business owners should also verify all invoices, regularly check all payments to vendors, rotate duties in the accounting department,and check drug and gambling habits among employees.
Publication Name: The Business Owner
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0190-4914
Year: 1995
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How to protect intangible assets
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Employers can use a number of ways to protect their intangible assets. Patents can be filed to retain the exclusive property of products for over 10 years. Employees can be asked to sign contracts to prevent them from divulging information to competitors, while documentation on inventions or processes should be on hand as proof of ownership.
Publication Name: The Business Owner
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0190-4914
Year: 1996
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