Coordinators made themselves available to answer auditor queries/questions at times throughout the visit.
Even odder, 19 Gazprom managers, including three senior executives, have declined to answer questions from its auditors, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), about any relationship they or their families have with Itera.Might all this fit with the theory that Gazprom's bosses set up Itera to enrich themselves at their shareholders' expense?
He also noted that auditors KPMG and Ernst & Young would have to answer tough questions about why the manipulation was never discovered or properly questioned.
It's not the job of an agency's PR shop to answer questions intended for its auditor, even one stripped of his independence.
The auditors reported that they were not given enough information to answer a central question: whether Gazprom managers benefited from the asset transfers.
At that hearing, the lead auditor for Andersen, David Duncan David Duncan, invoked the Fifth Amendment, refusing to answer questions by lawmakers into Andersen's actions in the wake of an initial inquiry into Enron by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The administration also wants to hire more people to answer telephone calls to the agency, allowing about 300 auditors detailed to this kind of customer service work to resume examining questionable returns.
Half the inspectors interviewed by the inspector general's auditors said they did not understand the checklist questions they were supposed to answer, raising questions about the quality of data they gather.
The auditors have acknowledged European Commission efforts to improve the situation by bringing in accounting reforms to answer complaints that lax procedures could be wide open to fraud and mismanagement.
It would also allow the hiring of more people to answer telephone inquiries from taxpayers, a job that diverted 3percentt of auditors and collectors from their primary work last year.
