TRIXIE WAS DUMBFOUNDED as she ran the reports again, then cross checked them – again – against her general ledger balances showing. She took off her reading glasses and rubbed her eyes.
Surely this is a glitch somewhere in one of the systems, either my accounting software, or the bank’s reporting software.
She logged out of both, logged back in, checked her date selection, and ran all her reports again. Then she picked up her desk phone and called her contact at the bank.
And began to shake as she asked her question and was told the answer that she feared she would hear.
It wasn’t a glitch.
Someone had initiated a transaction that lightened the company’s bank account by five and a half million dollars sometime over the last seventy-two hours.
She verified the date and time stamp her
