Does not getting paid matter (and how do you make it matter?).

[Roomba]

What if we made the dry budget announcement trigger as soon as the payroll bottoms out rather than waiting for the next payday to arrive? 

Also, does the budget computer keep a log of all the users who have access it along with any adjustments made by those users? If not, it definitely should.

Any measure that relies on the embezzler facing IC justice is almost certainly going to fail because A: no one cares about money and B: by the time anyone figured out who did it they've already turned it all into research points/spent it all on bee crates/tossed it into the crusher, followed by themselves. Even if you can catch them, that money's still gone.

Not that hard to avoid the dry budget announcment either - just wait for payday, then steal 999999 credits and you've got five minutes before anyone figures it out.