AND -——ALWAYS MAKE THE “BOOKKEEPER” TAKE A VACATION WITH A QUALIFIED REPLACEMENT.
IF YOU HAVE A BOOKKEEPER “THAT IS SO DEDICATED” THEY REFUSE TO TAKE A VACATION-—
I WILL BET THEY ARE EMBEZZLING
In fact that rule applies to anybody. One company I worked for the head of IT was just so devoted that he would come in at any hour if there was a problem with the system. Turned out that one of the things he was doing was renting the company a tape backup system (yes it was that long ago) that was not backing up anything. He would come in daily to "change the tape" which he also sold the company and there had to be regular "maintenance" that he also was charging the company for.
He did all of this through a shell company of course that was just a website he had set up. Apparently he forgot that it was possible to look up who owns the website.
That was fun to unravel.