Several audit firm professionals tried to convince the SEC and PCAOB staff that they were mistaken in the belief that broker-dealer auditors could not sign the broker-dealer audit opinion as well as help implement accounting software, prepare period-end journal entries and compile those same financial statements and regulatory reports that they would audit.

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The Audit Scotland report - which covered the period when Lothian waiting lists were being manipulated, between April and December 2011 - said there was "widespread use across Scotland" of the social unavailability patient code during that time.

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Though he faces no public allegation of personal wrongdoing, Mr Yushchenko's first denials that any unorthodox methods had been used, followed by a claim that underlings had run the scheme without his knowledge and then by repeated delays in publishing a detailed audit of the bank's dealings in the period concerned, have all damaged his standing.

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"While concerns about contracts had been evident over a long period, the executive failed to effectively address them, " said the Audit Office.

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The study, carried out by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists on behalf of the Department of Health, involves an audit of every maternity unit in England and Wales over a three-month period between May and July of this year.

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He made his comments while giving evidence to the Commons Environmental Audit Committee's inquiry into how the UN Kyoto Protocol will progress after the current period for emission targets ends in 2012.

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In 2009, the New York State Public Service Commission retained Charles River Associates, a management consulting firm based in Boston, MA, to perform a two-phase investigative accounting audit to determine how much money Con Edison owed to its customers for overcharges for the period 2000 to 2009.

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