@domino-710 wrote:Why do they have ' credit cards '.
Simply take a colleague to dine - not family or guests. lol
Then claim the expense. - with paperwork.
Falls under - looks legit.
I can sort of understand the need for credit cards but for sure, the accountability needs to be way tighter.
I can recall many years ago when i was working, we had a sleepover/camp type thing at the school and 'someone' had to calculate the amount of breakfast cereals/milk/ sausages/bread/butter/sauce and other supplies needed for about 150 children and also the adults. Then buy it.
The task fell to me. I had only just returned to work and I had returned because we really needed the money and suddenly here I was, having to spend a few hundred dollars of my own money. Fair enough, I did get reimbursed with a cheque a few weeks later but in the meantime, I had had to put it on my own credit card.
I ended up having to do that sort of thing several times but eventually there was a school credit card, which made it easier.
Looking back, I suppose with someone else's credit card, there is the opportunity to cheat if you're that way inclined. For instance, no one checked out exactly how many bottles of milk I lugged into the staffroom. For all they know, I might have kept a couple.
Not that I did or even thought about it at the time but just saying, I think some of these accounts can be padded and probably much more than for a bottle of milk or box of cereal or whatever.
I should point out, the school itself did not pay for food, credit card or not. The children paid a sum for the excursion and that went into the school coffers and was balanced against any spending and god help you if you miscalculated and your raised funds didn't cover expenses. We teachers always knew exactly how many slices in a C or D loaf & how many sausages roughly per kilo.
One thing that bemuses me. How do these politicians get away with charging up meals?
When we had parent-teacher nights, where we stayed at school till about 9pm, the prin told us it was illegal for him to use any funds at all to shout us a meal at dinner time. He could not claim that sort of thing as a school expense which i thought was a bit rugged. I know there have to be clamps on it but I would have thought that if staff work back, there could be a food allowance of eg $5 per person, maybe only claimable twice a year.
The prin in fact usually had pizzas delivered for us. I don't know how he covered it but it wasn't as a meal.
But if we had major constraints against using funds for food, how come politicians seem to be able to do it without any checks or balances?
This one has been caught out but I'd bet there is a bit of rorting going on by others as well.
