(a.) An examination in general; a judicial examination.
(a.) The result of such an examination, or an account as adjusted by auditors; final account.
(a.) A general receptacle or receiver.
(v. t.) To examine and adjust, as an account or accounts; as, to audit the accounts of a treasure, or of parties who have a suit depending in court.
(v. i.) To settle or adjust an account.
Example Sentences:
(1) During interview and chart audit, the physicians were found to have consistently underestimated, misinterpreted, or neglected psychiatric aspects of care among a majority of patients in the study.
(2) One year later similar analysis showed that record keeping (recording of pulse rate and rhythm) had improved significantly in the group of principals carrying out the audit but not in other principals in these practices.
(3) (5) is the audit tool based on relevant and measurable criteria and standards?
(4) In a barely-noticed submission to the government's Environmental Audit Committee, the London borough of Hounslow, the airport's near neighbours, said the airport was: breaching the World Health Organisation's guidelines for the levels for noise in people's bedrooms; breaching the EU guidelines for levels of nitrogen dioxide; and breaching British standards on the noise experienced by children in classrooms.
(5) The audit states: "The financial position of Zuma deteriorated over time, mainly as a result of the fact of the shortage in daily funding required to fund his lifestyle … Zuma's cash requirements by far exceeded his ability to fund such requirements from his salary."
(6) Some journalists are uneasy at this notion of keeping an audit trail of thinking, authority and pre-publication decision-making?
(7) This article--the first of three on measuring quality of life--reviews the instruments available and their application in screening programmes, audit, health care research, and clinical trials.
(8) Formal audits of the continuing medical education activities of physicians licensed in Michigan were undertaken to assess compliance with a law mandating participation in 150 hours of continuing medical education each 3 years.
(9) YouTube has always audited videos in an effort to try to spot inflated counts, but the company is now stepping up its efforts according to Pfeiffenberger: "While in the past we would scan views for spam immediately after they occurred, starting today we will periodically validate the video’s view count, removing fraudulent views as new evidence comes to light.
(10) Another senior member of Abdullah's team dismissed the audit as a sham.
(11) "Some have problems in enforcing their transfer pricing regimes due to gaps in the law, weak or no regulations and guidelines for companies, and limited technical capacity to carry out transfer pricing risk assessment and transfer pricing audits, and to negotiate transfer pricing adjustments with multinational companies."
(12) Would you agree with that?” She said she did not agree, adding: “We were told on numerous occasions that the advice wouldn’t be changing.” Reynolds said one reason security did not form part of safety audits was that the conditions and circumstances of security were “variable” in contrast with the more static nature of swimming pool depths, for example.
(13) Layer Cake was credited as Craig’s audition for James Bond.
(14) "In addition, the Department for Communities and Local Government [DCLG] has failed to provide the council with any cost estimates for the audit apart from the vague statement that costs are likely to be 'within £1m'.
(15) The effect of the audit on recording levels has also been determined by means of a second audit one year later.
(16) The audit of behaviors of health care providers is a valuable tool for learning the essentials of primary care and health care delivery.
(17) Big organisations, whether in the private, public or charitable sectors usually have independent internal audit before getting anywhere near the external auditors.
(18) Mechanisms to promote changes in clinical practice styles include independent professional audit, peer review, and involvement of clinicians in budgeting and resource allocation.
(19) What is really needed now are not more investigations, more reports, more consultants or more inspections, audits and measuring.
(20) As the level of disruption across the country continued to escalate, the government ordered an urgent audit of the country's snow readiness .
Auditor
Definition:
(a.) A hearer or listener.
(a.) A person appointed and authorized to audit or examine an account or accounts, compare the charges with the vouchers, examine the parties and witnesses, allow or reject charges, and state the balance.
(a.) One who hears judicially, as in an audience court.
Example Sentences:
(1) He pointed out that the bank's external auditors had also found nothing.
(2) Getting them to safety is now vital.” While the EU’s hotspots approach improved the fingerprinting and security vetting of migrants, the auditors said that funding and relocation “bottlenecks” had extended the detention of migrants, with disastrous consequences for children.
(3) Big organisations, whether in the private, public or charitable sectors usually have independent internal audit before getting anywhere near the external auditors.
(4) We aggressively push new uranium deals to countries like India , whose nuclear industry has been called unsafe by its own auditor general , and which point blank refuses to sign the global nuclear non-proliferation treaty .
(5) Delays in discharging older patients from hospital when they no longer need care is costing the NHS £820m every year, a report by official auditors has concluded.
(6) Our auditors have seen our legal advice on this matter and confirmed that we do not need to make provision in relation to this matter."
(7) On page 66 of the annual report, the auditors note that “commercial income is material to the income statement and amounts accrued at the year end are judgmental.
(8) Auditors are also concerned about the longer-term financial sustainability of single-tier and county councils, reporting that 52% of these authorities are not well placed to deliver their medium-term financial strategies.” The report concludes that the DCLG “does not monitor in a coordinated way the impact of funding reductions on services, and relies on other departments and inspectorates to alert it to individual service failures.
(9) Auditors said this would be cut again before the financial year ends in March.
(10) The project failed the auditors' standards, but 61 of the 65 objectives were met and 130,000 people are estimated to have benefited.
(11) Election 2015: off-year votes put focus on marijuana, LGBT rights – and Airbnb Read more Bevin’s win also had coat tails down ballot as Democratic state auditor Adam Edelen, widely tipped as a potential opponent for Senator Rand Paul in 2016, lost in an upset to his Republican opponent.
(12) There was no way the Bush administration would want independent auditors to publish a report into the financial propriety of its Iraqi administration while the CPA was still in existence and Bremer at its head still answerable to the press.
(13) However, in a letter to independent senator Nick Xenophon released last week, the auditor general, Ian McPhee, said the campaign could cost up to $30m.
(14) One in six councils are not expected to deliver services within budget this year, and more than half of all councils are at risk of financial failure within the next five years, a report from official auditors says.
(15) The BBC must be subject to full independent audit by the comptroller and auditor general.
(16) The auditors found that land for 15,740 of these properties was sold off under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, with some sold off as far back as 1997.
(17) This finding that slight degradation of sensory input had secondary consequences on memory and comprehension of spoken material led to an interpretation of findings that 960 individuals aged from 50 to 82 years, in contrast to young adults, showed markedly better recall for word lists presented visually than for word lists presented auditorally, even when each word in each list was correctly read or repeated aloud.
(18) And given that the number of people receiving personal budgets has been rising sharply, it is hardly surprising that such cases are attracting greater attention from national and local auditors.
(19) The firm that took over from Atos in the implementation of fitness-to-work tests is performing worse in key areas as costs continue to spiral, a report by the official auditors has disclosed.
(20) Last week the FRC unsealed details of a past disciplinary action against iSoft's auditor, laying bare a catalogue of accounting failures that had misled investors between 2003 and 2005.