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What are the risks that are caused by the following combination of tasks?
- The warehouse clerk who has custodial responsibility over inventory in the warehouse, updates the inventory subsidiary ledger and prepares an inventory summary for the general ledger department.
- The billing clerk bills customers and records sales in the sales journal.
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