Petty cash and company card controls
Run a petty-cash float and company cards so every amount is supported, reconciled and approved.
- Level
- Beginner
- Length
- About 35 minutes
- Contents
- 3 lessons · 1 video · final exam
- Status
- Published · updated 1 Oct 2026
Skills you'll practise
- Count and reconcile an imprest petty-cash float
- Identify unsupported or non-business spending on a card statement
- Recognize split transactions used to avoid limits
- Apply segregation of duties to cash and card processes
Course outline
- 1.Petty cash and card controlsVideo · 1 min
- 2.Small amounts, same controlsLesson · 15 min
- 3.Running an imprest floatLesson · 12 min
- 4.Reviewing company card statementsLesson · 12 min
- 5.Petty cash and company card controls: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 20 questions
- 6.Petty cash and company card controls: practical exerciseKnowledge check · 1 question
- 7.Card statement review: a split and a subscriptionScenario
- 8.Final exam7 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out
Sources it draws on
The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.
- General petty-cash and company-card control practice (imprest floats, receipts, reconciliation, segregation)
- General accounts-payable controls: purchase-order matching, approvals, segregation of duties
- General payment-fraud awareness: business email compromise and changed bank details
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