Richard Kessel, LIPA's chairman, said the audit, performed by Virchow, Krause & Company of Madison, Wis., was commissioned in November 2002 after LIPA learned that a KeySpan accounting error had caused LIPA to overstate its revenue.
The audit, performed by the city comptroller's office and released in June, asserts the probation officers' union's two health care programs performed no function other than to conceal more than $300,000 in payments to Ms. King's company.
It can be done by running a security audit, performing a penetration test, or just analyzing existing processes.
Internal audit, which is more commonly carried out, refers to audit carried out within a department or institution and external audit refers to audit performed by professionals from outside the department or institution.
2 51 P.M.: This story has been updated with details from the DWP audit performed by City Controller Ron Galperin.
For Career Education Corp., the problem appears to have been pervasive, according to an extensive audit performed by an outside legal counsel hired by the company.
"Major clothing brands like to say they have a system in place to avoid doing business with overseas suppliers that mistreat their workers: The corporate-funded factory audit, performed by credentialed inspectors and designed to weed out bad actors.....
An internal audit performed in 2002, in five of our 32 adult ICU beds, showed 26% of hyperglycemia (>10 mmol).
This is a retrospective audit performed over a 6-month period using the radiology database (CRIS) and the clinical database (PPM).
To examine the accuracy of the data transferred from the feeder systems, we examined the results of an audit performed at one US.
