How risky is “Petty cash” to get wrong, with a focus on fund never reconciled?

A small separate cash fund for minor costs, topped up against receipts. It is kept apart from sales cash so each has its own balance. Plan for: fund never reconciled; receipts missing; owner borrows from it. In the catalog it is a plan and nothing is built.

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