E5-34B. (Learning Objectives 1, 2: Learning about fraud; correcting an internal control weakness) Simon Stuart served as executive director of Downtown Scanlon, an organization created to revitalize Scanlon. Over the course of 11 years Stuart embezzled €273,000. How did Stuart do it? He did it by depositing subscriber cash receipts in his own bank account, writing Downtown Scanlon checks to himself, and creating phony entities that Downtown Scanlon wrote checks to.

Downtown Scanlon was led by a board of directors comprised of civic leaders. Stuart’s embezzlement went undetected until Downtown Scanlon couldn’t pay its bills.

Give four ways Stuart’s embezzlement could have been prevented.