In 2009, Liberty Consulting Group conducted a comprehensive management audit of Con Edison for the New York Public Service Commission.
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Not only was Robert Allgyer, the Andersen partner in charge of Waste Management's audit, also the marketing director for the firm's Chicago office, but he worked for his audit client in another capacity as well.
Talent-spotting has traditionally been left to a middle-management layer of audit supervisors until people get closer to being a partner (partly because employees tend to be invisible to many of their superiors, working as they do in small teams at the offices of the client).
With the oversight of senior management and our audit committee, we have begun taking steps and plan to take additional measures to remediate the underlying causes of the material weakness, primarily through the development and implementation of formal policies, improved processes and documented procedures, as well as the hiring of additional finance personnel.
It should be the audit committee, not management, that decides whether an auditor should be allowed to carry out non-audit work over a certain value.
Effectiveness of the internal audit function including management focus and action on reports that cited weaknesses and other serious issues to address.
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Now the council's audit and risk management committee will be told in a report that work to meet recommendations tabled by the Information Commissioner is making good progress.
On a positive note all health care bodies broke even, including reducing management costs, however the audit office says they must continue to focus on ways to live within their means.
Except for the brief period of mutual antagonism after the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002, auditors behave more than ever as if their client is management, and now the Audit Committee, rather than investors.
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Based on what I've seen and heard from fellow CEOs and business leaders, if organizations with more than 1, 000 smartphones or smart devices in use do not enforce mobility audit and cost management strategies and solutions, they can be sure their mobile communications costs will rise sharply, and so will the risks associated with device and data losses.
Does the relationship result in the accountant acting as management or an employee of the audit client?
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The Minister for Social Development Alex Attwood said the team of audit, fraud, management and personnel experts went into NIHE on Monday.
Labour brought forward its NHS debate at parliament following a report by public spending watchdog Audit Scotland which said the management and scrutiny of the waiting time system "had not been good enough".
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The programme gives enterprise customers a choice of two levels of support, alongside access to the time-saving administration tool, Landscape, which includes audit, compliance and ongoing management features for large desktop deployments.
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And the audit trail is also related to workflow management.
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The MPs also said they were "disappointed" that the MoD had failed to improve its management of supplies, despite criticism from the National Audit Office dating as far back as 1991.
Quality of corporate governance including risk committee and audit committee effectiveness and quality of disclosures by management to those board committees.
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Also reappearing this month is Deloitte, the professional services organization, which specializes in audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management and tax services.
They would do well to appoint independent Audit Committee members with real estate and risk management experience who are prepared to safeguard shareholder value.
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To get at the real picture, CEOs need to cut through several layers of management, talk to mid-level managers, and audit their companies' safety procedures.
These measures include procedures for delivery of periodic statements of account, annual audit information, and information relating to the management of the mineral estate to the tribe.
Audit Committee members are required to proactively probe management, internal auditors and external auditors to gain insight and to make oversight decisions that will hold up, if necessary, in court.
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Ms Murray tabled an amendment to the government motion, calling attention to the concerns raised by Audit Scotland who have said councils needed additional waste management facilities to meet national and landfill recycling targets.
They have a hearing on the management of hospital consultants based on this report from the National Audit Office, which said the new contract for hospital consultants, introduced in October 2003, delivered many of the expected benefits in exchange for a significant increase in pay.
R. 1827 includes some promising provisions on paying for audit recovery services out of proceeds, gainsharing for financing management improvement, and rewarding employee performance.
That said, relief from the one-size-fits-all audit requirement does allow companies to defer meaningful expense while allowing management discretion over when and how to deploy resources on the controls that matter most.
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Floods again, more dire economic predictions, the row over child abuse in North Wales rekindled and Awema, the 19th report in a row from the Wales Audit Office criticising the way the Welsh government deals with grant management.
In fact, both said, they liked using their audit firm for non-audit services because they were comfortable with them and their auditor knew management and the business best.
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It is set against a background of concern that Wales is running out of landfill space, with the National Audit Office (NAO) Wales last year recommending that 500 new waste management facilities were needed by 2010.
The audit firms are loathe to be in an adversarial, challenging relationship with the management of their clients.
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