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Josiah Boothby

He went to the colony with his father in 1853, and in that year became Clerk in the Colonial Secretary's Office, Clerk in the Audit Office in 1854, Chief Clerk in the Audit Office in 1856, Chief Clerk in the Chief Secretary's Office in 1859, also Government statist and Superintendent of Census in 1860, Assistant Secretary and Government Statist in 1866, and Under Secretary and Government Statist in 1868.


2011 Armed Forces of the Philippines corruption scandal

In the case of the missing US$5 million, the United States Department of Justice legal attaché asked her if she can be allowed to audit the UN reimbursements, as a certain US$5 million which was personally picked up by a military officer in New York was not reflected in the military's accounts.

Andrew Witty

He is also a member of the Economic Development Board audit committee as well as a board member of the Singapore Land Authority Board.

Atlantic Beach Bridge

A 1999 audit of the agency by New York State Comptroller Carl McCall found many instances of patronage and mismanagement.

Audit storm

In 2003, Auditor General Li Jinhua presented the annual audit report to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.

Bank of Ireland

The thefts were initially reported to the Garda Síochána, however the Banks senior management did not know about the problem until February 2008 after an internal audit uncovered the theft and the Bank did not advise the Data Protection Commissioner and the Central Bank of Ireland until mid-April 2008.

Bill Snyder

On June 19, 2009, the Kansas Board of Regents released the results of an audit that was performed by Grant Thornton LLP as an exit analysis for outgoing Kansas State president Jon Wefald.

Clem Simich

In August 1998, he was appointed to Cabinet, being Minister of Police, Minister for Racing, and Minister in Charge of the Audit Department.

Curriculum mapping

Related to mapping, but separate from it, is the concept of a curriculum audit, described by Fenwick W. English.

David Beetham

Closer to home, he joined Democratic Audit at the University of Essex in 1992 where he became Associate Editor, working closely with Director Stuart Weir.

Deh Cho Bridge

Auditor General Sheila Fraser agreed to do so, and the audit was submitted to the Assembly in March 2011.

Dinah Derycke

In 1991 she became a technical advisor to Michel Delebarre, then Minister of State for Planning and Municipalities, and the following year she was appointed external counsel to the Court of Audit (Cour des comptes).

Don Alden Adams

By the 1960s, Adams served directly under the Governing Body as a zone overseer, visiting various countries to audit branch offices and meet with Witness missionaries.

Dulcote Quarry

A Geodiversity audit of the site was carried out in 2004, which highlighted the limestone strata and fossils identified.

Étienne Wenger

Among his current engagements are Communities of Practice for Accounting and Auditing Education as well as Audit and Oversight for the World Bank Centre for Financial Reporting Reform.

Exodus Mandate

Since its founding, Exodus Mandate have endorsed the Mission America-spearheaded "School Risk Audit" program to investigate schools for any sign of LGBT tolerance or support.

F. Hinds

In 2008, F Hinds joined the Responsible Jewellery Council, an international not-for-profit organisation established to reinforce consumer confidence in the jewellery industry by advancing responsible business practices throughout the supply chain, and in August 2011 they were one of the first members to become fully accredited following an independent audit.

Gazprom Neft

Based on an audit of reserves conducted by DeGolyer and MacNaughton and according to the Petroleum Resources Management System standards, the company's proven reserves at the end of 2012 totaled 1.2 billion tonnes of oil equivalent, and its reserve replacement ratio was over 286%.

Grace Kwan

Grace returned to Ferndale in October 2013 to audit the hospital following the CEO, Chris Warner's (Michael Galvin) health concerns.

Inga-Britt Ahlenius

She chaired the INTOSAI Auditing Standards Committee for eight years, and was chairman of the Governing Board of the European Organization for Supreme Audit Institutions (EUROSAI) during 1993 to 1996.

L0phtCrack

L0phtCrack is a password auditing and recovery application (now called L0phtCrack 6) originally produced by Mudge from L0pht Heavy Industries.

Local Geodiversity Action Plan

The establishment of an LGAP typically follows the carrying out of a RIGS audit for the area concerned.

Lotus Air

The airline was the first in Egypt to receive EASA standards maintenance certification and IOSA certification (IATA Operational Safety Audit).

Nanjing Audit University

Nanjing Audit University (NAU,南京审计学院) is an accounting-focused university with its campus at Jianye, a district of Nanjing, China.

New York State University Police

A 2007 investigative audit by the New York State Comptroller found that the majority of SUNY campuses had, in violation of the Federal Clery Act, underreported crimes and failed to disclose required safety and security policies.

Newspaper circulation

In many countries, circulations are audited by independent bodies such as the Audit Bureau of Circulations to assure advertisers that a given newspaper does indeed reach the number of people claimed by the publisher.

Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability

The federal Government Accountability Office (GAO) is the audit, evaluation, and investigative arm of the United States Congress.

Oh Perilous World

The storyline of Oh Perilous World, essentially, is an audit of six years of post-9/11 America and its domestic and foreign policies under President George W. Bush's administration, but told through a fictional steampunk parallel universe.

Preuss School

Alvarez claimed that the audit included violations of internal audit standards and requested that the audit be reviewed by an independent third party, like the Bureau of State Audits or the Institute of Internal Auditors.

QuScient Technologies

It offers higher and further education institutions services in consulting and process audit, admissions and enrolment, support and helpdesk, content creation, and internet marketing.

Ralph D. Scurfield

He served as a Director of ATB Financial for seven years and was vice-chair of the Audit committee as the "bank" transformed from an agency of the Alberta government to a Crown Corporation.

Randall Caudill

Caudill serves on VaxGen board's Audit Committee and Compensation Committee and the Genentech Contract Committee.

Records management

: In addition to being able to store records, enterprises must also establish the proper capabilities for retrieval of records, in the event they are needed for a purpose such as an audit or litigation, or for the case of destruction.

Richard Goblet d'Alviella

He is a member of the board of directors of the Groupe Danone and Sofina, director and member of the audit committee of the Delhaize Group, and SES.

Sierra Entertainment

As irregularities in the books of Cendant were discovered in early 1998, an audit committee set up by Cendant's Board of Directors launched an investigation and discovered that the former management team of CUC, including its top executives Walter Forbes and Kirk Shelton, had been fraudulently preparing false business statements for several years.

Spectrum Task Force

Lastly, the command-and-control approach requires the NTIA and FCC to have proper measures in place to monitor the allocated spectrum, address any interference issues, keep the technical standards in check, and audit the geographic spectrum assignments.

Stavros Thomadakis

The Public Interest Oversight Board (PIOB) was established after a series of corporate scandals, including the collapse of Enron and WorldCom in the United States and of Parmalat in Europe, led to demand for an independent body to oversee auditors and to ensure that audit standards are in the public interest.

Subramanian Krishnamoorthy

He also knows Hindi, Bengali,English,Sanskrit,and German.He taught at a college for a few years.Then he joined the audit department of the Government of India at Madras in 1954.In 1955 he was transferred to Kolkata, where he has been living ever since, except for a 3-year spell in Delhi.

Supreme Audit Court of Iran

In December 2010, Supreme Audit Court (SAC) Director Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said that the case was mentioned in a report presented to the Majlis and the report neither called it fraud nor said the money was missing, but only referred to it as "a deficit in the account".

Susan Lenehan

Independent member to the Audit and Risk Committee - Ageing, Disability and Home Care Department of Human Services NSW - Juvenile Justice 2010 – 2010 with a budget of $2.35B having financial, analytical and risk management skills and an understanding of the political imperatives of ensuring open communication with the public and media are part of this role.

T. V. Rao

Currently, he is developing HRD Auditors and Trainers of Development Centers and creating manuals for HRD Audit in an effort to make HRD Audit like ISO certification.

Thrillville

Thrillville was generally well-received, except by X-Play, which gave it 2 out of 5 stars, saying that it was "as exciting as a tax audit," as well as citing a lack of customization and people to play with online.

Torr Works

A Geodiversity audit of the site recorded pale to dark grey well bedded Carboniferous Limestone dipping consistently southwards with a small area of overlying horizontally bedded buff-coloured Jurassic oolitic limestone forming an angular unconformity.

Veeranna Aivalli

He is widely remembered for being the Chairman of the Aviation Security Audit Programme in the International Civil Aviation Organisation, the specialized agency of the United Nations at Montreal.

Walter Geraghty

Born at Hunters Hill to builder Martin Joseph Geraghty and Lilian Frederika Roberts, he attended school locally and became an audit clerk and accountant, although he lost his job during the Great Depression.

Washoe County School District

Prior to his service in the field of education, Mr. Martinez served as a director of finance and technology at the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago and as an audit manager at both Deloitte and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Wilkhahn

Wilkhahn was one of the first German companies to achieve the environmental accreditation now known as the ISO 14001 Standard and EMAS (Eco-Management and Audit Scheme).


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