Audit Integrity looks beyond the raw data that companies report in their income statements and balance sheets to more than 100 factors that help it assess the true quality of accounting and management practices.

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Huang Shengming, secretary-general of the China National Food Industry Association, says that Chinese people associate foreign brands with quality, and that foreign management practices have sharpened up local companies.

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They concern management practices that at some point emerge and become popular, such as the old Total Quality Management, ISO9000 system or SixSigma.

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