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Create a system for monitoring your company's internal controls. Internal controls are those provisions that help to protect against fraud, theft, and other internal accounting issues. They are the procedures your business uses to ensure your assets are protected and your information is accurate.[11]
Separate accounting duties as much as is reasonable. For example, it is best not to allow the same person to both handle cash and do the bookkeeping, as this makes it easier to explain away missing cash.[12]
Safes should be locked when not in use, and company software and computers should be password protected.
Camera systems are beneficial for monitoring the execution of internal controls at retail businesses.
Reconciliation of accounts, such as the reconciliation of bank statements with the checkbook, should regularly occur as a way to validate financial information.
Techniques like numbering documents such as checks to prevent duplication are also a useful internal control.