Sentence examples for firm procedures from inspiring English sources

The American accounting firms say it is the reputation of the firm that matters, and that firm procedures assure quality.

The bank said he "was terminated for not complying with regulatory requirements and not following firm procedure".

"But we have another problem: who has the right to interpret the Constitution?" China has no firm procedure for deciding whether government rules or actions are constitutional.

The commission and the regulatory arm of NASD, which monitors securities firms and their employees, have requested documents related to the firms' procedures for rating companies and evaluating and paying analysts.

WALL STREET JOURNAL   Ratings Agencies Questioned on MF Global  |  Representative Randy Neugebauer, chairman of the House financial services subcommittee on oversight and investigations, sent letters to the chief executive of Moody's Investors Service and the president of Standard & Poor's, seeking information about the firms' procedures for evaluating MF Global, The Wall Street Journal reports.

A likely starting point would be a careful review of the firm's procedures for reviewing difficult accounting questions.

But in each of those cases, "the firm's procedures did not sufficiently address the identified risk".

Mr. Cohen can avoid liability if he can establish that SAC had a system in place that "would reasonably be expected to prevent and detect, insofar as practicable, any such violation by such other person," and that there was no reasonable cause to believe the firm's procedures were not being complied with by the portfolio managers.

"We are looking intensively at the firms' policies, procedures and internal controls related to foreclosures and seeking to determine whether systematic weaknesses are leading to improper foreclosures," Mr. Bernanke said in remarks that echoed those made last week by several administration officials.

He says financial firms had procedures to bring staff over.

Even then, in at least one case, supervisors have insisted that the permit be contingent on further improvements in the Chinese firm's operating procedures.