Revised CATS Procedure Dec.20161

COMMERCIAL BANK OF ETHIOPIA December 1, 2016
c) Provides the Customer Services Officer with a sealed envelope that
contains her or his personal combination code, which she/he must
commit to memory and replace in an envelope before she/he begins
working in the branch; and holds the duplicate key of the cash box for
safekeeping.
The Customer Service Manager
a) Sets the cash limit of the branch before the cash operation starts;
b) Registers the cash stamp into a register book, affixes the stamp to the
register book and keeps it (the register book) in her or his custody; and
c) Provides the Customer Services Officer-front maker with a cash stamp
and a cash box individually with by letting her/him signing on the
stamp handing over and taking over stamp register book.
The Senior Customer Services Officer-cash
a) Makes sure that the leftover cash (petty cash) physically exists in the box
before placing the cash box in the vault; and
b) Counts—when least expected—the cash reported on the Petty cash sheet
(refer CBECATS201) by the Customer Services Officer, in order to verify
the correctness thereof.
The Customer Services Officer-Maker
a) Seals, signs and hands over the envelope that contain duplicate key
and/or combination code to the Branch Manager for safe-keeping;
b) Surrenders the cash box that contains the petty-cash balance to the
Senior Customer Services Officer for safe-keeping in the vault before she
or he goes out for lunch and at the end of the day;
c) Starts the cash operation with the petty-cash balance in the cash box—in
the morning as well as in the afternoon—and requests for additional cash
when necessary;
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