The phrase "audit said that" is not correct in standard written English.
It lacks clarity and proper context, as it seems to be missing a subject or a complete thought.
Example: "The audit said that the financial records were accurate."
Alternatives: "the audit reported that" or "the audit indicated that".
The audit said that LICH had annual operating losses for 17 years going back to 1994.
The state comptroller's audit said that a conflict of interest occurred.
Beyond the findings related to the debate over noncontracts, the audit said that the city did not get people out of temporary housing fast enough.
The audit said that until earlier this year the State Department had only two government employees in Iraq overseeing as many as 700 DynCorp employees.
The audit said that of the 1,100 environmentally friendly cars that also take unleaded gasoline, 73percentt had never been filled with the alternative, compressed natural gas.
The audit said that Mr. Glanton, without telling the board about his real estate partner, Thomas Massaro, had hired Mr. Massaro as overseer of the gallery's reconstruction.
In January, the state comptroller issued an audit saying that SUNY Downstate was on the verge of insolvency, and that Long Island College Hospital was partly to blame.
"The donors clamoring for faster procurement are the first to scream bloody murder if an audit says that people cut corners to speed things up".
The audit says that while the utility has lost billions of dollars because of the soaring wholesale power costs its affiliates that generate power had made a windfall.
PROBLEMS MOUNT FOR ANDERSEN -- The accounting firm fired David B. Duncan, the partner in charge of Enron's audit, saying that he led "an expedited effort to destroy documents" after he learned that the Securities and Exchange Commission was investigating Enron's books.
But the audit says that the authority's own internal documents show that just one of the 12 standards was really considered: the ratio of the number of jobs the company promised to keep and the amount of power consumed.
