With Brown leaving office in January, the timing of the audit means any proposals for improving DMV operations will be considered by the next governor and Legislature.
The approximate timing of the audit cycle events and other study data collection points are presented in Figure 1.
Since the patients will be different in the before-and-after measurements, the effect of the timing of the auditing will be accounted for with a fixed effect for time (dummy variable for the second and third measurements).
The Finance Ministry officials were suspected of alerting banks to the timing of Government audits and favoring certain banks and brokerage firms in authorizing new financial products.
The interview guide (Additional file 1) used the components of an ideal model audit to assess composition, timing and frequency of audit meetings, selection of cases, feedback provision, dissemination of recommendations, record keeping, analysis of results and use of audit recommendations for institutional planning and budgeting.
Increasing concern about insider threats, cyber-espionage, and other types of attacks which involve a high degree of stealthiness has renewed the desire to better understand the timing of actions to audit, clean, or otherwise mitigate such attacks.
Both the food workers' local and Teamsters Local 805, the unions vying to represent plant workers, called the timing of the immigration audit highly suspect, and contended that under the immigration agency's own guidelines, it should have been delayed until after the vote on a union.
The measurement challenge, of course, is to relate the timing of real change to the social audit cycle.
One difference between this and previous audits is the timing of its release.
Given the nature of RIAA's certification audit requirements, the brisk timing of 4 44's platinum plaque--on an extended holiday weekend, no less--indicated another factor at play.
