Immediately following the fatal ceiling collapse, Governor Mitt Romney ordered a stem-to-stern safety audit conducted by the Illinois engineering firm of Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc. to look for additional areas of risk.

The internal auditors are required by law to report directly to an audit board, consisting of directors more than half of whom are outside directors, one of whom is an accounting expert.

He also recommended that auditing be done by experts only and that it was dangerous for laymen to audit each other.

The Federal Reserve Transparency Act was introduced by congressman Ron Paul in order to obtain a more detailed audit of the Fed.

This survey is powered by Qualys ' SSL Server Test, in which anyone can audit the HTTPS implementation of a specified web server.

During 2007, Macquarie University faced a restructuring of its student organisation after an audit raised questions about management of hundreds of thousands of dollars in funds by student organisations At the centre of the investigation was Victor Ma, president of the Macquarie University Students ' Council, who had previously been involved in a high-profile case of student election fixing at the University of Sydney.

* Master of Computer Auditing, a 1 year Master's degree in information technology audit awarded by University of Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium

In 2003 the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) conducted an audit of the PNA and stated that Arafat diverted $ 900 million in public funds to a special bank account controlled by Arafat and the PNA Chief Economic Financial adviser.

In 2009, an internal audit by the Office of the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman determined that the IFC ignored its Environmental and Social Standards by approving $ 200 million worth of loan guarantees to fund the production of palm oil in Indonesia, a country faced with significant environmental risks to its rainforests.

The software can operate with the closed-looped controls, or as a ' closed system ,' as required by many companies when using audit trail functionality.

Greater interdisciplinary cooperation is further evidenced by the February 2005 creation of the Alliance for Enterprise Security Risk Management, a joint venture including leading associations in security ( ASIS ), information security ( ISSA, the Information Systems Security Association ), and IT audit ( ISACA, the Information Systems Audit and Control Association ).

Modern operating systems strive to reduce the size of the TCB so that an exhaustive examination of its code base ( by means of manual or computer-assisted software audit or program verification ) becomes feasible.

This fundamental relativity of the boundary of the TCB is exemplifed by the concept of the target of evaluation ( TOE ) in the Common Criteria security process: in the course of a Common Criteria security evaluation, one of the first decisions that must be made is the boundary of the audit in terms of the list of system components that will come under scrutiny.

Gallagher commissioned Edwin Pride to audit the Securities Exchange Company's books — an effort made difficult by the fact his bookkeeping system consisted merely of index cards with investors ' names.

It is read daily by over 350, 000 users according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations Limited's ( ABC ) audit figures ( as of Nov 2011 ).

As irregularities in the books of Cendant were discovered in early 1998, an audit committee set up by Cendant's Board of Directors launched an investigation and discovered that the former management team of CUC, including its top executives Walter Forbes and Kirk Shelton, had been fraudulently preparing false business statements for several years.

: The Arthur Andersen partner in charge of the Enron account, David B. Duncan tells the audit managers to comply with the Andersen document retention policy, and observes them doing so by shredding documents.

Security features were added to operating systems to record audit trails of which programs were accessing which files and to prevent access to a production payroll file by an engineering program, for example.

On September 15, 2010 the SEC issued final rule 33-9142 the permanently exempts registrants that are neither accelerated nor large accelerated filers as defined by Rule 12b-2 of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 from Section 404 ( b ) internal control audit requirement.

Further, auditor conflicts of interest have been addressed, by prohibiting auditors from also having lucrative consulting agreements with the firms they audit under Section 201.

An audit by Price Waterhouse revealed that contrary to agreements between First American's nominal investors and the Federal Reserve, many of the investors had borrowed heavily from BCCI.

A recent investigation performed at the end of 2007 by the QAA reveal that as a result of its investigations, the audit team's view of Anglia Ruskin University is that confidence can reasonably be placed in the soundness of the institution's present and likely future management of the academic standards of the awards that it offers and the quality of the learning opportunities available to students.

In addition, Council members review budgets submitted by the Mayor ; provide for an annual audit of the City ’ s accounts and financial transactions ; organize standing committees and hold public hearings to address important issues which impact Atlantic City.

The Government Accountability Office ( GAO ) is the audit, evaluation, and investigative arm of the United States Congress.

Prior to 2001, the Education Department had achieved only one clean audit in its history, and that audit was by the Department's Office of Inspector General.

* Swedish National Audit Office, or Riksrevisionen-The supreme audit institution.

* Swiss Federal Audit Office ( SFAO ): The federal government audit office.

In May 2008, the U. S. Department of Education's Office of Inspector General ( OIG ) audit services division commenced a compliance audit of Ashford University covering the period March 10, 2005, through June 30, 2009.

An audit of the Fund by the General Accounting Office, made public in May 1984, concluded that Sherwood's charges regarding the Fund were baseless.

The Commission also appoints an Inspector General to act as an inspector for the Department, and a Chief Audit Executive as part of the internal audit department known as the Chief Auditor's Office, who are both independent of the Director.

Returning to National Office in 1986, Carmody was appointed as Second Commissioner in charge of revenue collection and audit, and in the following year, leader of the ATO's " modernisation program ".

In 2006, a compliance audit was commenced by the United States Department of Education, Office of the Inspector General ( OIG ) focusing on the university's policies and procedures concerning the return of Title IV funds as required by Federal Law for students who failed to give official notice that they were withdrawing from the school.

Martens wanted the White House to award TRM a $ 500, 000 contract for an aircraft audit, while also seeking Travel Office charter business as an intermediary which did not own any planes.

KPMG was unable to do an actual audit, because there were so few records in the Travel Office that could be audited and because the office did not use the double-entry bookkeeping system that audits are based upon.

A subsequent US Senate probe and an Australian Taxation Office audit in which Lowy and his sons, David and Steven, were investigated on their involvement with financial institutions in tax havens located in Liechtenstein and Switzerland.

GAO ( Government Accountability Office ) is the audit, evaluation, and investigative arm of the United States Congress.

An audit from the Crown Office in 2006 of religiously aggravated crimes in Scotland between January 2004 and June 2005, found that 33 % of these were related to football.

The United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services ( OIOS ) is a United Nations organ whose primary purpose is to perform world-wide audit, investigation, inspection, programme monitoring, evaluation and consulting services to the United Nations Secretariat and the rest of the United Nations System.

Its intended and mandated function is similar to many national government audit organisations, like the Government Accountability Office in the United States.

The Comptroller General has the responsibility to audit the financial statements that the Secretary of the Treasury and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget present to the Congress and the President.

* the Office of the Comptroller General, which exerts internal audit over the Brazilian federal government

Government performance auditing was developed in the late 1960s and shepherded by the United States Government Accountability Office, ( the chief audit arm of the US federal government ).

The Supreme Audit Office (, abbreviated NIK ) is the supreme audit institution and also one of the oldest state institutions in Poland, created under the Second Republic on February 7, 1919, barely 3 months after the restoration of Poland's independence.

* How to collect audit data, UBHT Clinical Audit Central Office.