Alex Salmond and the Education Minister Michael Russell were being questioned by the Public Audit Committee on 1 December 2010.
Liberal Democrat Nicol Stephen said the Public Audit Committee was "one of the major success stories of devolution" and had uncovered some very bad mistakes.
During their inquiry MSPs on the public audit committee discovered that many people from deprived areas and from certain ethnic groups expected to become ill.
The Scottish Parliament's public audit committee suggested samples of patient records were tested to make sure the use of social unavailability codes on the NHS computer system was "appropriate".
The same retired Big Four audit partners and former CEOs seem to serve on multiple public company audit committees.
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The U.S. supports transparency and holding the UN accountable and thus will continue to make public OIOS audit reports.
The principle that those commissioning the auditors should be independent from those being audited has "guided public sector audit for the last 150 years", the committee adds.
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Some private equity firms, like Blackstone, are public companies and are required under SEC rules to have a registered public accounting firm audit.
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Labour brought forward its NHS debate at parliament following a report by public spending watchdog Audit Scotland which said the management and scrutiny of the waiting time system "had not been good enough".
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Some pundits and journalists, even a public company CFO, were quick to criticize the audit industry and its regulators for not pushing hard enough for proposals that name the audit engagement partner for public clients.
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However, 3 of the ten audit firms were already registered with the PCAOB because they audit other public companies.
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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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Mandatory audit firm rotation was an old tune sung again by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, the audit industry regulator, beginning in August of 2011.
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Although the 2010 audit is not yet finished, perhaps CCME and Deloitte could make public some of the details from the audit plan regarding the methods used verify revenues and cash balances in 2009 and 2010.
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An audit of the public finances by the national accounting office is due next month, conveniently after the elections.
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Audit fees for public company non-accelerated filers increased by 3%, on average.
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The experience of Deloitte, the first Big Four firm to suffer the ignominy of having the PCAOB air its dirty audit laundry in public may be instructive.
According to a source who is an expert in internal audit services to public companies, internal controls are not very effective when executives collude and conceal information.
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Only 300 of the 800 firms registered with the PCAOB to audit broker-dealers also reported issuing audit reports for public company issuers like MF Global, JP Morgan, Barclays and Goldman Sachs.
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Members of the public and employees of the audit firms can report any concerns they have about an auditor or the audit process to the PCAOB directly, explained Deputy Director of Enforcement Marion Koenigs.
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We need a public trust and new system of audit engagement.
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The Auditor General for Wales, Huw Vaughan Thomas, also gave evidence to the committee on the Wales Audit Office report on public participation in waste recycling.
According to a report this week from the Audit Commission, a public-spending watchdog, the introduction of a similar system in Australia resulted in a big productivity improvement.
Huw Thomas made his comments whilst briefing the public accounts committee on the Wales Audit Office report 'Progress in Delivering the Welsh Housing Quality Standard' on 17 January 2011.
The independent external auditor is a licensed professional who works for a public accounting firm and performs an audit of the financial statements of a company, government, individual, or any other legal entity or organization.
Shadow defence secretary Jim Murphy said Mr Cameron should now apologise for the government's "incompetence", saying that the prime minister had ignored warnings from the Public Accounts Committee and the National Audit Office about the "high risk and high cost" of opting for the F-35C.
The public accounts committee was considering a 2011 Audit Office report entitled "Safeguarding Northern Ireland's Listed Buildings".
She particularly supported the increased transparency and accountability afforded by opening up the sovereign grant to scrutiny by the National Audit Office and the Commons public accounts committee.
Free market economists admire the separation of money and government while audit-minded accountants relish its public traceability.
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