This paper outlines a sharps container (SC) contents audit conducted in Australian capital cities.
LEGISLATORS, regulators and stock exchange executives all seem to agree: Give boardroom audit committees sharper teeth, and corporate chiefs will no longer be able to slip funny numbers to, and through, the auditors.
But the comptroller's audit paints a sharp portrait of the resulting costs.
The sharp fall-off followed an audit by West Midlands police and Birmingham City council to check if existing voters knew they were registered.
Latest audit data shows a sharp increase in all types of valve surgery in the UK, with some surgeons say it is now taking up 40% of their workload.
Urging major belt-tightening for a staff already strapped by sharp layoffs and pay cuts, a state audit Tuesday recommended that the South Coast Air Quality Management District slash its budget as much as $12 million, mostly from salaries.
Mr Cox of Duke University suggests two possibilities: mandatory rotation of entire audits rather than the more limited rotation just of individual partners as is now required in America; and sharp limits on the provision of non-audit services.
The ending, which puts Jomier's self-audit into sharper relief, therefore comes not so much as an ironic twist as a necessary statement of account.
Which would you prefer: death by hanging, an IRS audit or making a presentation to a sharp, knowledgeable audience?
The proposal, presented to the board complete with printed examples of the new auditing statements, has been the subject of sharp debate for at least two years.
Every officially audited UK national newspaper website reported a sharp fall in traffic in September, as online news audiences dipped following live coverage of the riots in August.
