One reason for that is the independent technical audit completed last year.
Full-year Audit Bureau of Circulation figures showed The Herald's sales fell 11.6% in the second half of the year, compared with the same period in 2010.
Facebook agreed to a 20-year privacy audit and a promise not to make retroactive changes to users' privacy settings.
Last year the Audit Commission reported that there were wide differences in levels of achievement of local authorities with similar levels of disadvantage.
They are auditing the taxpayer on the same issue as a previous audit on a closed year, but not considering it a second examination.
Last year a National Audit Office report warned of "major risks" associated with the planned roll-out.
The FEI survey found very modest changes in overall audit fees compared to last year.
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Last year's audit came after the Housing Executive's contract with the Red Sky maintenance company was terminated in 2011.
Many audit-committee reports this year have come with disclaimers to say that the accuracy of the firm's accounts are not their responsibility.
But earlier this year the National Audit Office warned that support for future schemes was at risk because of the failure of existing ones.
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The figure started dropping at the end of that year, but Audit Scotland said the reason for this was unclear due to the lack of available information.
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But a study last year by the Audit Commission suggested that only half of GPs believed it was important to look for the signs of dementia, because it is incurable.
There is no shortage of evidence that the current system of local government could be improved: last year, an Audit Commission report criticised the committee system as an enormous waste of time and money.
And the current arrangements were criticised last year when a National Audit Office report raised concerns about the safety of storage of waste at Sellafield.
The Philadelphia Inquirer has reported that there are 28 specific areas of inquiry as part of the audit, which focuses on the year 2009.
All of this infuriates Marcel Reid, who, along with seven other national Acorn board members, was removed last year after demanding an audit of the group's books.
The 2010 proxy statement, dated March 2, 2010, says the IGT Audit Committee held fifteen meetings during fiscal year 2009, which ended September 30, 2009.
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The average number of Audit Committee meetings for public companies, even for companies going through tough times requiring significant Audit Committee involvement, is seven per year according to a 2009 NACD survey.
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It is set against a background of concern that Wales is running out of landfill space, with the National Audit Office (NAO) Wales last year recommending that 500 new waste management facilities were needed by 2010.
Might have something to do with the fact that 39% of those surveyed last year pointed to fear of an audit as the key reason they pay taxes, second only to personal integrity.
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Audit Analytics also notes that for the partial year 2010 on which their estimates of the trend are based, 2590 of the 2636 going concern qualifications were filed by non-accelerated filers, that is, the smallest public companies.
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Activists are lobbying for new regulations, beyond a Federal Trade Commission settlement last year that calls for the government to audit Facebook's privacy policies for 20 years.
The audit confirmed the findings of an AP investigation last year that found a lack of accountability in California's multimillion-dollar special license plate program and specific examples of misappropriation in the memorial license plate fund.
Tarrin is accused of engineering the Finance Ministry's takeover of Krung Thai Bank from the Financial Institutions Development Fund in the wake of last year's leak of a PricewaterhouseCoopers audit report that exposed allegedly poor lending practices at the bank.
In addition to new going concerns, Audit Analytics identified companies that filed a going concern one year but not the following year.
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He owned up to the thefts after a tip-off to the council prompted an emergency audit of the school's finances in October last year.
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Earlier this year the Cour des Comptes, the national audit office, which is chaired by a former Socialist deputy, urged a greater effort to cut spending.
Audit Scotland said the need for boards to break even each year encouraged a short-term focus on spending.
Last year, the oversight board's panel on audit effectiveness made some simple suggestions.
If legislators write the agency a bigger check next year, there's a fair chance that audit rates will pick back up.
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