Keeping employees honest - the low tech way.

Low-tech ways to keep a cashier honest:

The most effective low-tech way to see if a cashier is embezzling is to do a middle of the shift audit. That's where you walk up to the cashier tell him to stop working, and stand right next to you as you audit his till. You will run what's called an X report, if it's an old Tech cash register. This will show exactly how much cash he should have taken in. Add that total to whatever his starting Bank was and you have an exact amount that should be in the cash drawer.

If it's over that amount, and especially if it's over by a fairly significant amount of money, then the cashier is not ringing up some cash sales even though he still collecting the money for it. I saw a cashier audited once only an hour into his shift and he already had over $100 more in his till than the X report said he should have. If the cash total is only over by a dollar to $10, then that can be contributed to errors, or poor cash handling skills.

When cashiers fail to ring up cash sales but still collect money, they usually don't put it in their pocket right away, or even their tip jar. Most of the time they are a little more subtle at it, and will let the amount grow in there till and then only make the exchange to their pocket when it is slow and no one else is around.

in order to take disciplinary action against the cashier in this case, most jurisdictions require that the cashier have received training and you must be able to prove that they know that situation like this will result in disciplinary action. Otherwise, they may claim that the overage is just tip money that they hadn't had time to put in their tip jar yet.

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