http://www.cfosnafu.com/typo-costs-city-2-mil/ Some days it should be legal to keep two sets of books Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:39:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://www.cfosnafu.com/typo-costs-city-2-mil/comment-page-1/#comment-5490 R. B. Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:21:49 +0000 http://www.cfosnafu.com/?p=491#comment-5490 I hope they didn't terminate the "seasoned" city employee who made the error (unless this was typical of their performance). This is a perfect example of an incident where the process could be improved (have someone proof all such documents) to prevent a very human error. We all make mistakes. Thankfully, most of them don't cost this much. But with good processes, they can be caught quickly in-house, preventing them from becoming a problem the way this one did. I hope they didn’t terminate the “seasoned” city employee who made the error (unless this was typical of their performance). This is a perfect example of an incident where the process could be improved (have someone proof all such documents) to prevent a very human error. We all make mistakes. Thankfully, most of them don’t cost this much. But with good processes, they can be caught quickly in-house, preventing them from becoming a problem the way this one did.

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