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Section 5: OPA Board Subject: F&Beverage Forensic Audit Msg# 1048434
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I can also assure you I did everything in my power to beg them to correct these poor business decisions that caused these dramatic increases in payroll. One thing the audit doesn’t point out is that because sales were so low at the golf course, BC and YC, employees hourly wages had to be increased to meet minimum wage. So while servers were generally hired at $3.63 per hour plus tips, we had to pay a lot more than that to meet minimum wage standards. It was calculated to the penny for every employee.
Beginning Memorial Day I was in John Viola‘s office daily with reports on how bad things were going. Nothing was done to correct it. Finally in early August I went in his office and said “I’m going to change my pitch today. We are well on our way to losing a million dollars. Let’s just go for it and see if we can’t have record setting losses.” And that’s exactly what they did. I have been a business person for 35 years and I cringed at the decisions being made, but I had no authority to do anything other than what I was told. |
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: Well these 30 pages of this Food & Beverage Forensic report also have so many interesting examples of how to perform audits. Makes it a good candidate as a "case study" combined with the Public Works report for an auditing course. And this F&B audit has so many good examples of how bank deposits, and the locking bank bags should be properly audited. In addition there's detailed steps regarding payrolls and petty cash funds. All basic bread & butter topics for auditing students to learn. My one criticism relates to examining payroll matters. When there's significant rise in payroll costs, as the auditors noted, an examination could be conducted into the possibility of "phantom" employees. Things like examining the bona fides of social security cards, photo ID's, prior employment histories, etc. Things like examining patterns of time card stamps, varying from the norms. Documentation is perhaps a bit more spotty for international employees --but the international aspect might widen the opportunity for cheating. Another fine point pertains to OP's mgmt. I'd suggest that the departing, fired F&B mgr's time frame for health insurance coverage paid by OP should have been cut shorter, so that OP could recover more of those missing petty cash funds. Perhaps the fake employee analysis was made, but not mentioned in this report. None-the-less, this overall report's thoroughness seems to be top drawer. Again, the ball is now in OP mgmt's court, to follow thru. But perhaps to a lesser extent than previously, with the turn over of F&B operations to Matt Ortt. Tom |
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