Is a crime committed if an employee pays with her credit card for clients purchases?
Posted on October 12th, 2009 by admin
An employee used her credit card to pay a substantial amount of purchases of over a hundred clients. It can be surmised that the clients paid in cash to said employee. The credit card payments do not tally with the dates the receipts were issued. The credit card payments were made 4 to 60 days after the receipts were issued. This cost the company losses in credit card merchant fees. Is there criminal liability here or is this just a case of a violation of company policy?
Are they legitmate charges to your clients? Were the clients billed?
Remember there is lag time , look at your statements
when you make a purchase, sometimes it doesnt show that it was processed until the next day, for several ones.
One of them is that the merchant forgot to batch out.
Do you even know your only company policy?
What didyou say to him or her when she submitted the receipts to your accountant?
Or are you an employee looking for a way to get her fired or in trouble?
Why doesn’t your company audit these transactions?
Why did your company accept the charges?
October 12th, 2009 at 8:31 am
DEFINITELY.. something is wrong here. I would never hire or keep hired, such an employee
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October 12th, 2009 at 9:05 am
Sounds like a scam to me. I would have a good deep look at the books and such, and fire her. I would talk to a lawyer about possible prosecution.
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October 12th, 2009 at 9:14 am
yes
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October 12th, 2009 at 9:23 am
I’d make sure that she’s authorized to use that credit card and that there’s enough credit on it. Some companies don’t check for the amount of credit, but only that there’s a valid account. Sounds to me like this is someone else’s credit card or an over-drawn credit card, and she’s scamming people to get cash.
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October 12th, 2009 at 9:30 am
depends on company code of conduct and ethical policies.
Criminal if she is accused of stealing – has to fit under criminal code
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October 12th, 2009 at 10:12 am
Are they legitmate charges to your clients? Were the clients billed?
Remember there is lag time , look at your statements
when you make a purchase, sometimes it doesnt show that it was processed until the next day, for several ones.
One of them is that the merchant forgot to batch out.
Do you even know your only company policy?
What didyou say to him or her when she submitted the receipts to your accountant?
Or are you an employee looking for a way to get her fired or in trouble?
Why doesn’t your company audit these transactions?
Why did your company accept the charges?
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