Their proposal would allow audits by the Government Accountability Office of every item on the Fed's balance sheet, and they said the Senate version would not go far enough.
In the aftermath of accounting scandals at firms such as Enron and WorldCom, public companies have been generally required to allow audits of their internal controls.
In fact, by demanding a more comprehensive and higher quality audit, the exchanges would actually allow audit firms to earn more revenue than they did before.
"I hope we will stabilize this year," he said, adding that he hopes to get budget increases that will allow audit rates to begin rising next year.
But if it turns out that Grant Thornton's work led to the discovery, that could be seen as a vindication for the policy of allowing audit firms to stay indefinitely.
Thus the interests for the authorities of the present results are: (1) the test of a methodology to describe the actual educational content that allows auditing the training system (such audit deserves a much larger population), and (2) the identification of a number of elements that have to be improved in the future licensing system.
The dissemination and implementation of a single CS classification system will allow auditing, analyzing and comparing rates of CS across different hospitals, cities, countries and regions.
They allow auditing of interventions, comparison between services, and the formation of large datasets for indepth epidemiologic analysis.
To ensure confirmability, the second author made memos and kept a reflective journal on the decisions made throughout the study, thus allowing audit.
Knowledge of factors that predict mortality provides clues to the pathophysiology of head injury, how clinicians' interventions can be most effective, allows audit between different units or time points and provides objective data with which to communicate with patients' relatives.
