Following recent problems at several big Swiss insurance companies, the commission will also take charge of the insurance sector, as well as keeping a tighter watch on the performance of audit firms, some of which it feels have been getting too close to their clients.
He should at least step down until the performance of KPMG in the audit of HBOS, and accounting standard setting, has been properly and independently investigated.
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Nick Clegg last month promised the government would publish a "candid" audit of the government's performance as part of a Mid-Term Review "which would surprise on the upside".
Doncaster's rating has been published in the Audit Commission's Comprehensive Performance Assessments (CPA) - the annual data for all English single tier and county councils.
The Audit Office measured the potential performance of the building by looking at the money spent divided by the number of visitors it will attract.
David Miliband: Secondly, if you look at the performance of local government, the independent assessments that are carried out by the Audit Commission, suggest that two thirds of councils are now delivering a good or excellent service, that's good.
An Audit Scotland study on the financial performance of the NHS found all 23 boards met their budget targets for the fourth year running in 2011-12.
The financial watchdog, the National Audit Office, remains unhappy with their performance complaining that "HMRC's performance in answering calls from the public is poor value for money".
In a statement last week, the IRS blamed a decline in some performance measures, including a drop in audit coverage and collections, on an 8% decline in its workforce since 2010, plus a doubling of the staff it has assigned to fight identity theft refund fraud.
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The Audit Office said while the write-offs had produced a positive performance against the corporate target, the percentage of total rent collected had reduced and there were high levels of individual arrears.
The National Audit Office (NAO) said concerns were raised that Serco staff were altering data about performance.
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