Most governmental entities have a provision in their contracts which permit them to audit their contractors.
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It has rejected a plan by a group of independent universities to audit the electoral register.
The independence rules around provision of tax services to audit clients are a little trickier.
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Work hours allocated to audit committees alone have tripled during the last four years.
The IRS decided in 1994 to audit the Maddoxes' 1991 and 1992 tax returns.
Most transactions are business-to-business, and, since companies are subject to audit, most pay sales taxes anyway.
The IRS normally gets three years after you file your tax return to audit you.
Just tell them they cannot sell any of their proliferating non-audit services to audit clients.
But there are more auditor independence conflicts than just providing prohibited services to audit clients.
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Agencies will be required to audit more of their programs and recapture more taxpayer dollars.
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Watergate also led to the establishment of inspectors-general in federal agencies to audit and investigate them.
Joe, but the company has room for further improvement, particularly when it comes to Audit Committee oversight.
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To crunch the numbers, we turned to Audit Integrity, an independent financial analytics company in Los Angeles.
It tries to hold countries accountable by using accounting firms to audit results.
He said there must be "scientific verification" of the systems that food retailers' use to audit their supply chain.
And big accounting firms will refuse to audit financial statements if the company or creditors fail to provide data.
Like Ron Paul, Virgil Goode has long supported a bill to audit the Federal Reserve, which recently cleared the House.
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The IRS normally has just three years after a return is due or filed, whichever is later, to audit it.
AnalyticsDNA was commissioned to audit and aggregate the campaign effectiveness studies of a new form of advertising called the Type-Ins.
In fact, the IRS generally has three years to audit your return.
The IRS statute of limitations to audit is usually three years, but once taxes are assessed, IRS can pursue you for ten years.
Prompted in part by concerns raised by the SEC and FBI, the Labor Department hired Sandia National Laboratories to audit its data-release system.
Another good idea is for the government to audit the housing stock and tell householders how to cut their emissions and their bills.
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Second, investment funds and their managers have gotten away with some questionable positions for years because the IRS has failed to audit them.
Stinebrickner-Kauffman is critical of the non-profit group, the Fair Labor Association, which Apple has invited to audit most of its manufacturing facilities in China.
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Teva plans to conduct a consumer-education program, and indicated it is willing to audit whether stores are following the age requirement, the agency said.
And public cloud users had 25 percent more incidents related to audit deficiencies, data loss, data exposure, and unauthorized access than private cloud users.
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The findings of Conwy's internal investigation will be reported to audit committee on 14 March 2013, the meeting will be open to the public.
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Consultancies say such concerns are groundless, but critics note that auditors said the same thing when they were pitching consulting services to audit clients.
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Multiple local investigations are now underway and a Virginian congressman, Thomas Davis, has asked the Government Accountability Office to audit the district's tax outfit.
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