> It wasn't so much a matter of "not counting cash" though - it was counted frequently, and the problem was that when it was counted, bugs in the accounting system had accumulated to make it look like there was cash missing. These errors added up to a lot of money that never existed seemingly being missing.

I should have been more clear, apologies. Counting cash isn’t just “we have xxx cash monies”, it should include “and going by actual sales, and services processed, we should have xxx cash monies”. We both appear to agree that if you are going to take folks to court or tribunal or something, hell even “let’s have a trip to HR”, you best have some proper evidence besides “computer said so”.

> after a while surely alarm bells should have been going off somewhere.

I am absolutely certain that alarm bells were going off all over the place about this, but mostly in a “cover my ass and hope it goes away” mode.

_Lots_ of people belong in jail over this.