General cashier safe
1. General cashier safe will be maintained and controlled by the general cashier at a properly protected enclosure for the following purposes:
- Issuing house fund
- Handling change requirements
- Keeping cash or cheque received from daily revenue or collected from account receivable
- Keeping foreign currency exchange or travel cheque
- Issuing petty cash
The general cashier will have to sign a house fund contract (see annexure a) as acknowledgement of receiving custody of this fund. The house fund contract is to be retained by the head of accounting department with a copy forwarded to the employee’s file at the human Resources department.
2. Access to the safe fund must require dual access (both a key and a combination are required to open it).
3. Although the general cashier should be the only person with knowledge of the combination, for back up process however, the head of accounting in his or her safe.
4. The duplicate safe key should be retained by the head of accounting in his or her safe.
5. Petty cash vouchers should be reimbursed to the house fund on a weekly basis or at minimum remaining amount. A check request should be completed and submitted to accounts payable with supporting documentation (e.g : petty cash vouchers with receipts etc).