Their working methods are similar to that of an actuary, who does a similar balancing of financial outcomes of events for the assurance and insurance industries.

In assurance services, also known as financial audit services, CPAs attest to the reasonableness of disclosures, the freedom from material misstatement, and the adherence to the applicable generally accepted accounting principles ( GAAP ) in financial statements.

The audit opinion is intended to provide reasonable assurance that the financial statements are presented fairly, in all material respects, and / or give a true and fair view in accordance with the financial reporting framework.

The financial audit is one of many assurance functions provided by accounting firms.

* Internal control procedures and internal auditors: Internal control procedures are policies implemented by an entity's board of directors, audit committee, management, and other personnel to provide reasonable assurance of the entity achieving its objectives related to reliable financial reporting, operating efficiency, and compliance with laws and regulations.

* Compilation, in accountancy, the presentation of information in the form of financial statements that are the representation of management, without expressing any opinion or assurance regarding their conformity with GAAP.

She was now pregnant, and Gloucester wanted an assurance of financial support for his family.

Financial audit The NAO ’ s financial audits give assurance over three aspects of government expenditure: the truth and fairness of financial statements ; the regularity ( or statutory validity ) of the expenditure, and ; the propriety of the audited body ’ s conduct in accordance with parliamentary, statutory and public expectations.

ESAC's purpose is to verify PEO compliance with important ethical, financial, and operational standards and to provide financial assurance backing the performance of its accredited PEOs.

Although the Regulator was given the option of not forcing Equitable to build reserves for discretionary bonuses, that did not absolve the authorities from their duty of financial supervision covering the “ assurance undertaking's entire business ”.

The chief executive has overall responsibility for the DSA's activities, ensuring it meets its financial obligations, and providing assurance of a sound system of internal control.

A separate audit and risk management committee, comprising non-executive directors, acts independently of the executive board to provide assurance both on financial and non-financial matters, including corporate governance and risk management, to the chief executive.

The only thing that prevents my acceptance and willingness to make an immediate return is the present lack of adequate financial assurance for a fight against my being railroaded to jail and an effective organization to arouse the people.

Landscape performance assessment is critical to both of these, and is also important for estimating liability and levels of financial assurance.

These plans provide some assurance that the mine is not “ painting itself into a corner ” and provide a starting basis to estimate financial assurance levels – important to both mines and regulators.

Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement.

Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects.

A company's internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.

First, Britain must give an assurance of full independence for India after the war and allow the election of a constituent assembly to frame a new constitution ; second, although the Indian armed forces would remain under the British Commander-in-Chief, Indians must be included immediately in the central government and given a chance to share power and responsibility.

# Whether there was any longer sufficient transparency of independence from the executive and the legislature to give assurance of the independence of the judiciary.

no strikingly effective element of speech in the extant poems can with assurance be said not to have been a commonplace in the vaster epic corpus that may have existed at the beginning of the first millennium before Christ.

While disc players and drives may have capabilities beyond the standards, enabling them to read and write nonstandard discs, there is no assurance, in the absence of explicit additional manufacturer specifications beyond normal Compact Disc logo certification, that any particular player or drive will perform beyond the standards at all or consistently.

In the futures markets, there is no assurance that a liquid market may exist for offsetting a commodity contract at all times.

The evaluation process also tries to establish the level of confidence that may be placed in the product's security features through quality assurance processes:

Since the violin pattern is not diagnostic, and other spiders may have similar markings ( such as cellar spiders and pirate spiders ), for more assurance in identification it is imperative to examine the eyes.

This time is now past, & my future happiness can only exist in the assurance that Eliza and myself can be happy & that Mrs. Allen & you can forget the past, — forgive all & and find your lost peace & you may rest assured that nothing on my part shall be wanting to restore it.

According to Ferenczi, "… One learned from and from his kind of technique various things that made one ’ s life and work more comfortable: the calm, unemotional reserve ; the unruffled assurance that one knows better ; and the theories, the seeking and finding of the causes of failure in the patient instead of partly in ourselves … and finally the pessimistic view, shared only with a few, that neurotics are a rabble, good only to support us financially and to allow us to learn from their cases: psychoanalysis as a therapy may be worthless " ( Ferenczi, 1995, pp. 185 – 186 ).

Proto-Celtic * Lugus may equally be related to Proto-Celtic * lug-meaning " oath, pledging, assurance " on the one hand and " deceive " on the other ( derived from Proto-Indo-European * leugh-‘ avowal, deception ’).

Information warfare may involve collection of tactical information, assurance ( s ) that one's own information is valid, spreading of propaganda or disinformation to demoralize or manipulate the enemy and the public, undermining the quality of opposing force information and denial of information-collection opportunities to opposing forces.

Contributions to an assurance contract may also be collected as pledges which are only called-in when the threshold is reached.

These facts have made public displays of religious piety by political leaders important to a large sector of the population ; lacking an established church, they may seek public assurance of those leaders ' religious beliefs or general sense of moral conviction.

The goal is obtaining objective, reproducible and quantifiable measurements, which may have numerous valuable applications in schedule and budget planning, cost estimation, quality assurance testing, software debugging, software performance optimization, and optimal personnel task assignments.

While quality control and quality assurance in such locations may be variable, sophisticated technology ( such as multi-stage particle filtration, UV irradiation, ozonation, and membrane filtration ) is applied with increasing frequency.

The binding is established through the registration and issuance process, which, depending on the level of assurance the binding has, may be carried out by software at a CA, or under human supervision.

" He argues that intellectual property laws can actually hinder innovation, since competitors can be indefinitely discouraged from further research expenditures in the general area covered by the patent because the courts may hold their improvements as infringements on the previous patent, and the patent holder is discouraged from engaging in further research in this field because the privilege discourages his improvement of his invention for the entire period of the patent, with the assurance that no competitor can trespass on his domain.

Playscapes can also provide parents with the assurance of their child's safety and wellbeing, which may not be prevalent in an open field or wooded area.

Many quality assurance, engineering design, manufacturing, installation, and end-use factors may influence whether or not something is safe in any particular situation.

An email user may sometimes need to give an address to a site without complete assurance that the site owner will not use it for sending spam.

Some Gentile converts " may have lived very reprehensible lives ", but on embracing the Christian message they did so " with the assurance that God in Christ had wiped out their past misdeeds ".

A user with at least 100 assurance points is a Prospective Assurer, and may — after passing an Assurer Challenge — verify other users ; more assurance points allow the Assurer to assign more assurance points to others.

Although invoking the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, whereby events from his own timeline may differ from our own, Titor also expressed assurance that the differences were minimal.

Emma may have been disheartened and Joseph reported a revelation which instructed her to " murmur not " but also comforted her with the assurance, " thy sins are forgiven thee, and thou art an elect lady, whom I have called.