One example came to light last week when a state audit of the North Carolina state treasurer's office found million-dollar and billion-dollar mistakes in reporting investment results for the most recent fiscal year.
Officials said the state will audit inmates' legal cases to ensure they are serving the correct amount of time.
They say the auditing authority would be centralized in each state, so that each year a Web seller could be subject to a maximum of one audit per state, not 9, 600.
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Governor Brown ordered an audit of all state reports in December in a bid to cut down on red tape, the BBC's Peter Bowes in California says.
The Indianapolis Star learned Tuesday that the state has abruptly halted the independent audit.
Concerns about CalPERS' inattention to these factors prompted the the California State Legislature's Joint Legislative Audit Committee on 27 June 2000 to direct an audit of the fund's international portfolio.
The results of that audit were sent to the State Council, China's cabinet, which ordered the police investigation, police said.
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The Joint Legislative Audit Committee hearing suggests that the State of California and its public employee retirement funds may play a critical role in fashioning a template for a truly national effort to introduce new national security- and human rights-minded "due diligence" into debt and equity purchasing decisions.
Official audit bodies, at both federal and state level, check on how money devolved to local councils is spent.
An IRS audit can be daunting and may trigger other state or local audits too.
An audit found that the agency routinely did not follow state law in handing out grants and tax credits.
State's big four accounting firm has tried to increase audit fees twice since January, citing extra work to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley.
Thomas DiNapoli, the state's comptroller, announced that his office would expedite an audit of the MTA's lease with Apple.
Indiana has halted an audit of its crime labs, spelling an end to one of the better state initiatives this year.
In a letter prefacing the audit, Mr. Sopko, the special inspector general, recommended that the State Department and USAID should recover from contractors any inappropriately reimbursed taxes.
Ms Mitrofanova, who holds a PhD in international relations, was elected a Deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of Russia and has also worked as an auditor of the Russian Audit Chamber.
If you live in one state and buy expensive personal property in another, you could face a sales- and use-tax audit.
For this year's general election, Nevada is the only state where virtually every voting machine has a paper backup that could aid in a machine malfunction, an audit or a recount.
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