But are there really audit triggers?
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"In the non-audit arena there's just a lot of work that's not getting done, " he adds.
There have been some audit letters that have gone out and I've seen some of those, but they're routine audits that are actually routinely conducted.
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Holyrood's audit committee said there must be more transparency on payments to government and other public sector workers.
There is only one independent audit firm in Saudi Arabia registered with the PCAOB and it has never been inspected.
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The Audit Office said there is now much greater transparency on what senior managers in the health service are paid.
According to the PCAOB, there have been 567 additional audit firm registrations since 2009. 517 of those firms audit only broker-dealers.
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Rule of thumb: If the partner asks you to backdate a document or create a signed checklist where there was none during the audit, you may be sanctioned someday.
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According to Audit Integrity, there is a strong correlation between poor scores on its tests and the likelihood of accounting or other irregularities cropping up at a future date.
And there are numerous examples of audit firms still earning at least as much of their fees from audit clients, or multiples of their audit fees, from what were, in my mind, supposed to be prohibited services to those companies.
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Second, it is important to remember that there has never been an investigation of what happened in the IRS. There was an internal IRS audit, not an investigation, carried out by an inspector general, who was careful this week to note to the House what he'd done was not an investigation.
Last year the Audit Commission reported that there were wide differences in levels of achievement of local authorities with similar levels of disadvantage.
There are only 200 inspectors to audit millions of California employers.
And in the 1970s, when we had a pretty serious economic crisis with inflation and interest rates at 21%, there was a demand for an audit.
For starters, every pension that has a conflicted adviser should undertake an audit to determine whether there is any connection between the adviser conflicts and pension underperformance.
There could be implications for the audit industry, too.
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The competition watchdog said "there are competition problems in the audit market", and added that it could ask the Competition Commission to conduct a detailed investigation, because the "statutory test" for a reference to the Commission had been passed.
If legislators write the agency a bigger check next year, there's a fair chance that audit rates will pick back up.
Whenever there was a not for profit to audit that my firm could not go after due to independence or not being a good fit, Linda was the first person I would call.
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In its report, the National Audit Office (NAO) agreed there was "greater scope" for online public services.
He said there should be a review by the Wales Audit Office into how so much money was spent on a school, and also internal reviews by the council and the church authorities into management by those in senior positions.
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There is no indication in the 277-page audit report that President Karzai benefited from the fraud.
There was minimal mention of a minimal number of audit firms in the final FCIC report.
There is no evidence of any other interviews with audit firm leadership or audit engagement partners for the failed institutions.
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Although shareholders have not seen any financial data since Lime began the internal audit of its books last July, there have been numerous announcements of progress in its utility business.
But Ann Ballinger, general secretary of the Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association, expressed concern at the way the audit had been carried out and claimed there were numerous examples of councils who failed to consult with classroom teachers or even department heads.
Opinions vary and there are many old wives tales about what triggers an audit.
He was there to walk the halls and drum up non-audit work at audit clients and non-audit clients alike.
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