Credit Card Use / Abuse

Much has been said about Ministers using their credit cards for personal expenditure. 

Our spin on this is comes from the many cases we have investigated where there is a direct correlation between the misuse of cards and outright dishonesty often starting with long lunches, progressing to after work drinks, then cash withdrawals, strip clubs, and from then it just spirals out of control.  

We investigated one such incident that involved over a million dollars over a period of years.  

A company card should be a privilege earned and in the business world, profits belong to the shareholders and cards must be audited.Once the employee or manager realises their expenditure claims are not formally audited they are in effect given a licence to steal.

John Key is correct, in government you need full disclosure or publicity.

In a commercial environment you need to ensure there exists accountablity by way of a proper audit process.