So eager were McKeon's staff drones to comply with their prejudiced instruction that their analysis did not once contain the words "waste," "fraud," "abuse," "overhead" or "officer creep" in a budget so notorious for same that it has kept itself exempt from financial audits for decades -- and plans to do so for the foreseeable future.
But the governor, a Republican, said Wednesday that he would sign the law only if all existing contracts, including those with halfway house operators, were exempted from the audits.
The BBC director general told a public accounts committee session in Salford that while he welcomed the National Audit Office's role in "making sure we are spending money appropriately", he wanted greater clarity over how the corporation's creative freedom would be exempted from the auditing process, and what protections would be given to commercial arm BBC Worldwide.
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has also exempted the corporate store from audit requirements about how often the vast database is searched.
Under those rules, some of the audit firms might be exempt from the inspections.
This research was exempt from ethical approval as this is an audit of clinical service and does not contain identifiable data.
This study was exempt from approval by the UCL Ethics Committee as constituting an audit.
This study was exempt from approval by the UCL Ethics Committee as constituting an audit, http://ethics.grad.ucl.ac.uk/exemptions.php.php
The new report covers work conducted by 10 audit firms, seven of which were previously exempt from board review because they did not review the financial statements of any public companies.
And that was before the IRS audited other taxpayers who claimed they were exempt from a penalty for reasons such as financial hardship.
"According to the policy activities that constitute research at the Australian and New Zealand Audit of Surgical Mortality, this work met criteria for operational improvement activities exempt from ethics review".
