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We’re All Family - Why Waste Time and Money on Unessential Internal Controls

Reed McKnight, Roy Cook
November 1, 2015
SKU:
BUS-004784
Region: 
North America
Topic: 
Strategy & General Management, Human Resources & Organizational Behavior
Length: 
10 pages
Keywords: 
Internal Controls, seperation of duties, Human Resource Management, work environment, efficiency
Student Price: 
$4.00 (€3.7)
Average rating: 
0

The church finance team co-chair was asked by the head pastor to spearhead a review of a job description for an office administrator. Imbedded in the job description were internal control concerns that previously had been raised but ignored by church leadership. When asked why these concerns had not been addressed, the pastor responded that the church’s close family like environment mitigated the finance team’s perceived internal control problems. However, the cochair did not want the church, its leadership, or the volunteer finance team to be at risk. He felt that endorsing fiscal policies that he thought were wrong put all of them at avoidable risk. Were these perceived internal control concerns illusory or real? And, if they were real, what should be done?

Learning Outcomes: 
  1. Analyze the internal control deficiencies imbedded in the case.
  2. Propose internal control improvements.
  3. Create an improved job description for the new office administrator (OA) resulting from evaluation of internal control deficiencies.