(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.
Surveyor
Definition:
(n.) One placed to superintend others; an overseer; an inspector.
(n.) One who views and examines for the purpose of ascertaining the condition, quantity, or quality of anything; as, a surveyor of highways, ordnance, etc.
(n.) One who surveys or measures land; one who practices the art of surveying.
(n.) An officer who ascertains the contents of casks, and the quantity of liquors subject to duty; a gauger.
(n.) In the United States, an officer whose duties include the various measures to be taken for ascertaining the quantity, condition, and value of merchandise brought into a port.
Example Sentences:
(1) Responses to a monthly survey of 450-500 surveyors (usually 250-300 reply).
(2) Roger Madelin, the chief executive of the developers Argent, which consulted the prince's aides on the £2bn plan to regenerate 27 hectares (67 acres) of disused rail land at Kings Cross in London, said the prince now has a similar stature as a consultee as statutory bodies including English Heritage, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and professional bodies including Riba and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
(3) The affordability and availability of homes in the UK “is now a national emergency” the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) said, as it warned that measures such as extending right-to-buy would prevent the new government reaching its target of 1m more homes by 2020.
(4) Surveyors who had been predicting that London would see price increases of 9% a year over the next five years had revised that down to just under 5%, while on a national level the forecast has edged down to 5%.
(5) Even six months ago few people outside Westminster’s building surveyors could have imagined removal as a serious possibility.
(6) The company has created an apprenticeship programme for surveyors as an alternative to university, although it also increased graduate recruits last year.
(7) Richard Sexton, director of business development at surveyor e.surv , said the CML figures masked the true picture of what was happening to the housing market nationwide: "It is bad news that overall house purchase lending was so weak in July, but the good news is that it has not turned out to be a UK-wide phenomenon.
(8) The surveyor is proud to announce, "I can assure my readers that Walden has a reasonably tight bottom at a not unreasonable, though at an unusual, depth."
(9) Further evidence of the accelerating housing market emerged on Monday when surveyors said they were more optimistic about the prospects for increasing sales than at any point in the last 14 years.
(10) Housing is a key issue and this does not give me any confidence that the department has a grip on its own figures.” Jeremy Blackburn, head of policy at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, said: “The NAO report has shown what was suspected by many.
(11) The group says new buyer enquiries in England and Wales rose for the third month in a row in January, with 16% more chartered surveyors reporting a rise as opposed to a fall.
(12) There is an added element of uncertainty as we wait to see the impact of tax changes on the buy-to-let sector.” The figures are backed up by the latest monthly survey by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics), which found the market was “unusually buoyant” in December.
(13) The balance of surveyors saying prices rose compared to those recording a fall stood at +9 percentage points in March, down from +18 points in February.
(14) Meanwhile, figures from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) published this week suggested interest from potential buyers is increasing.
(15) Although the housing market appears to have slowed, there seems to be no let-up in rising rents, and the most recent monthly report by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors predicted that they would rise at a faster pace than house prices over the next five years.
(16) In commercial property little impact was expected from events in China, says Jeff Matsu, senior economist at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
(17) Simon Rubinsohn, economist for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics), says: “Yields have been compressed and returns aren’t as attractive as they were.
(18) The average number of completed sales slipped, the number of properties up for sale fell back, and surveyors reported fewer buyer enquiries.
(19) Among the most important landlord firms Southern Cross will have to win over to survive is London & Regional, the investment empire of former optician Ian Livingstone and his chartered surveyor brother Richard.
(20) Simon Rubinsohn, chief economist at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, said the latest figures were "more evidence that the housing market is stabilising.