Oh and one last thing, if you can tell me EXACTLY how she stole the money, I will give you 5 bonus points. It's in the statement but you have to be VERY specific to get the bonus points.

Barbara Smith was the Office Manager and Patient Care Coordinator for Promises Plastic Surgery. Her job included coordinating patient care and accepting payments for patients who have elective plastic surgery where insurance does not cover the procedure. She also was the employee who handled the bank deposit (which was supposed to only be done on Wednesdaysthe day Smith worked from home). The company is growing and Smith's job was split into two positions. She was offered the position of Patient Care Coordinator at a $10,000 pay cut. She refused to take a reduction in pay and left the company a month ago. The business hired a new Office Manager who found discrepancies in cash collected from patients and cash deposited into the bank. In one instance, a hand written receipt with Smith's signature was given to a patient who paid $15,000 in cash for a procedure. Later only $5,000 was applied to the patient's account in the billing software and only $5,000 in cash was deposited into the bank 10 days after the receipt date (no other bank deposits were done during those 10 days). Investigators interviewed Smith who gave the following statement:

"Yes that is my handwriting on the receipt and those are my initials. I took that payment. I met with patients confidentially in my office after they consulted with the doctor. I gave them with a detailed price quote for the procedure they wanted and they provided me with their payment, sometimes check, other times credit card or cash. I don't understand the problem.This one was handled like every other normal customer. The cash goes into the cash box. Sothe cash box islocated in the receptionist's desk out front and the key is in the drawer below it. Many employees put cash they collect into the box Idon'tknowwhat happened to money after it is placed in the box. Every person in the office hasaccess to that box. Why would I take money from the box? If $15,000 was collected on a Tuesday, I would not rememberon Wednesday that it should bein that box. I supposethat no one ever knew how much needed to be deposited. You have to understand, that office ispure chaosNo one could get their work done there. We were always behind. The doctor's wife isvery controlling...always putting us down for what we didn't get done. The doctor being sued;I guess maybethey took the cash to pay their legal bills. We didn't always get the bank deposits done timely. To the best of my recollection,the money was left in the box. Normally the deposits were made at the bank near where I live. Sometimes the deposits were made at a different location.How would anyone know how much money should be in the box?There were no Accounts Receivable reports generated from the billing software. The billing softwareisunreliable.Sometimesitdoesn'twork and entries cannot be made until later.I swear on my kids' lives that I didn't take money from the cash box.