(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 .
Unblemished
Definition:
(a.) Not blemished; pure; spotless; as, an unblemished reputation or life.
Example Sentences:
(1) He is learning to live with the regrets - it is a chastening experience after a 45-year unblemished business career.
(2) In the first round, against an man with an unblemished record from his previous 21 fights, Froch began with a lightning flurry that rocked Pascal.
(3) Complete safety of the patient and unblemished success without recurrence or complication may be assured after inguinal herniorrhaphy as an out-patient if uncompromising intimate attention is paid to the surgical technique in which local anesthesia, polyvinyl ester mesh, and rectus abdominis tendon transfer are used instead of coaptive techniques, and if the post-operative regimen of immediate post-operative ambulation and unrestricted activity is employed.
(4) A further nine, built relatively recently which have unblemished safety records, will be shut by 2022 as part of Germany's energiewende march from nuclear to renewables.
(5) But does she harbour concerns herself that other athletes, even those with unblemished skin, might be doping?
(6) This investigation examined various factors which may influence the production of unblemished, rapid-curing, clear acrylic resin.
(7) Although this is true of any space debris removal system, doubts remain because China does not have an unblemished record in anti-satellite weaponry.
(8) Ross, he said bitterly, made crude remarks to Andrew Sachs, while Stourton delivered 10 years' unblemished service to the BBC: "He was suspended.
(9) He held an “unblemished flying record”, she said, after flying 18,000 hours since he joined the carrier in 1981.
(10) The nurse who was found to have concealed her colleague Pauline Cafferkey’s raised temperature before she tested positive for Ebola risked her life for others in Sierra Leone and has an otherwise unblemished record, a tribunal has heard.
(11) For the root of these practices of secrecy appears to be a perverse kind of historical narcissism, a desire for a Whiggish gaze into an unblemished national past that leads to our time.
(12) The defence case was simpler still: Harris, one of the most prolific and enduring entertainers of modern times, had an unblemished record from 60 years in showbusiness and should not be condemned on only the word of the victims, who were liars and fantasists or else gravely mistaken.
(13) But George Osborne is reportedly dedicated to ensuring a male succession and the Lib Dems deserve credit from all anti-feminists, not just for rallying round one notorious, but senior, groper against his numerous female accusers, but for Clegg’s unblemished success rate in keeping Lib Dem women out of the cabinet.
(14) In his former role, he only ever had to worry about his own stance and his own conscience, which he could keep clean and unblemished – safe in the knowledge that his frontbench colleagues were doing the dirty work of compromise that might actually get things done.
(15) Sven Lindqvist , in his A History of Bombing, for instance, writes of how the evils Europeans perpetrated in their colonies prefigured the violence they would commit against each other at home.No European power, Britain least of all, has clean hands or can tell its 20th-century history as a series of unblemished triumphs, such leftwing history tells us.
(16) The UK's record on holding war crimes inmates is not unblemished.
(17) As recent events have shown, I leave my political career with my head held high and my integrity unblemished,” the MP for Maitland said, in an apparent reference to her appearance at Icac.
(18) A number of respondents said their harassers were allowed to remain in post; some moved to other institutions without facing any formal investigation or disciplinary action, leaving them with an unblemished employment record and the opportunity to continue preying on students elsewhere.
(19) Vora, 32, from London, is the latest Observer reader to have found that eBay protects buyers at the expense of sellers and that a long , unblemished record can count for nothing when a transaction goes wrong.
(20) It is difficult to fathom why a lender would rather advance 95% loan-to-value to a first-time buyer with no track record than 50% to an older borrower with a 40-year unblemished track record.” Halifax expects UK property prices to end this year up about 8% – right at the top of the 4%-8% forecast it issued a year ago.