Question

Joy works as the night auditor-clerk at the Easy Sleep Motel. She is responsible for balancing the day’s cash receipts and credit card receipts. Joy also has student loans that she is behind and decides to borrow some of the motel’s cash to pay them with the intention of re-paying the money before anyone finds out. However Joy is unable to repay the money and an audit of the motel’s account finds that the money is missing and that Joy was the one that took the cash. What crime did Joy commit?

Answer 1

Fraud

Step-by-step explanation:

Fraud is defined as an action that is aimed at deceiving another party and giving the perpetrator an unlawful ownership of property or deprive the original owner a legal right.

In this scenario Joy took advantage of her positions as the night auditor-clerk at the Easy Sleep Motel to divert of the motel's cash to pay for her loan.

She did not get proper approval or consent of the business owner before taking the money.

This is an unlawful access to the funds, so her crime is fraud