Why should the person responsible for shipping goods to customers not also have the responsibility for maintaining records of customer accounts?
Solution:
To establish prevention control in an organization duties of segregated among different employees to reduce risk of error and fraud. In view of the same duties related to shipping goods to customer and responsiblity to maintain customer records are given to different person. Generally store incharge is responsbile for shipping goods to customer and account incharge is responsible for maintaining records of customer accounts.
The duties are segregated, becuase in case both work is assigned to store incharge then he may do some favor to a particular customer by shipping goods to particulars customer and record it in account of different customer.
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