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The father-of-four, who grew up in Southampton, worked for oil company Chevron, where he was head of internal audit for Africa and the Middle East.
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More than 1, 700 executives across 43 countries, including CFOs and heads of legal, compliance and internal audit, were surveyed for their views on fraud, bribery and corruption.
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They must now personally sign off on financial reports, comply with Sarbanes-Oxley's requirements for internal monitoring, work with the board's audit committee and the company's internal auditors.
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Last week the FDIC filed suit against Colonial Bank auditor PwC, and internal audit co-source vendor Crowe Horwath, for professional malpractice and breach of contract.
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This has been a positive and appropriate activity at most companies, and in our experience, internal audit budgets have generally not simply been cut for the sake of cutting costs.
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NACRO, an umbrella organisation for criminal-reform groups, by the Audit Commission and in internal Home Office reports.
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Spain's chief prosecutor has said there could be enough evidence to investigate the allegations. but the PP has said it will take legal action against those responsible for what it says is a smear campaign, while announcing an internal audit of its finances.
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But all the firms quickly saw that they could now charge a lot more for the audit itself given the new requirement for a separate opinion on internal controls over financial reporting and the amount of work some sloppy companies had to do to document, test, and confirm internal controls.
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As for News Limited itself, it has condemned phone hacking and is now conducting an internal audit of payments over the past three years to ensure all of them were legitimate.
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