Sentences with phrase «audit committee said»

Jutta Kill from the organisation FERN, who is today giving evidence to the UK parliament Environmental Audit Committee said that Government proposals to regulate offset companies misleadingly give the impression that there are bad offsets and good offsets.

The Commons Environmental Audit Committee said Britain should introduce a sliding scale tax on plastic packaging with the hardest to recycle being charge most and the easiest to recycle being charged least.

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Audit committees are too often not as involved as they should be, Turner says.

On June 5, the SEC's chief accountant, James Schnurr, said the agency may propose greater disclosure requirements by corporate board audit committees on how they oversee their company's auditors.

Turner says he'd also give shareholders the right to annually vote on the appointment of auditors selected by the audit committee.

The committee also wanted to know if Facebook had set a deadline for completing the audit — but Schroepfer would only say it's going «as fast as we can».

Accounting experts and retailers have all but ruled out a similar scandal in Australia, saying supplier payments have been a major focus for auditors and audit committees in recent years and there are sufficient checks and balances in place to ensure that revenues are not manipulated.

The committee said the published email exchange between HMRC and the National Audit Office made it clear staff had been motivated by cost considerations when deciding not to remove sensitive data.

«The hospital industry has never liked the Health Department looking over their shoulder,» said Assembly Health Committee Chairman Richard Gottfried, who is fighting to get the audit funds restored.

The State Chapter of the Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC), the umbrella organization of all the political parties in Nigeria had a press conference saying that the election should be put on hold, let's conclude this audit process in the local government administration, a lot of things have gone wrong.

The Commons» environmental audit committee (EAC), publishing a report on the issue today, said the number of health problems and deaths is a «national scandal».

Commenting on today's publication of the Wales Audit Office report on «Health Finances 2012 - 13 and Beyond», Aled Roberts, who is a member of the Public Accounts Committee, said:

He said the committee members were on a fact finding mission to all the state - owned tertiary institutions to ascertain whether their accounts had been audited.

Biodiversity loss in England remains severe despite government conservation attempts, an environmental audit committee report said today.

«The consequence of the rushed, 11th - hour consultation will be uncertainty among investors in all kinds of renewable energy, which will inevitably push up the cost of capital,» environmental audit committee chair Tim Yeo said.

Environmental audit committee chair Joan Walley said the Chinese government had a «set of plans and the ability to deliver them» — in contrast to David Cameron's government, which she accused of paying «lip service» to the decarbonisation agenda.

County lawmakers on a committee charged with overseeing the Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency say that they remained unaware of a State Comptroller's Office audit of the agency, even as they discussed a deal expected to funnel millions of dollars in added revenue to the public benefit corporation.

He said «Today FEC received approval of a project technical audit committee report which was carried out by the ministry in investigating all contracts awarded and projects and programmes carried out in the ministry from inception of the ministry from 2009 to 2015.

The committee is asking lawmakers and Gov. David Paterson to require that agencies, when they can do so without undue burden, post on their Web sites meeting minutes, audits and other information that is «clearly public and frequently requested,» Freeman said.

«We bathe on cleaner beaches, drive more fuel - efficient cars and can hold government to account on air pollution,» said Mary Creagh, chair of the house's Environmental Audit Committee.

The audit committee's chair, Rowett senior scientist Andrew Chesson, says he stands by his report but doesn't want to discuss the reviewers» findings, to avoid a debate about raw data in the press.

Speaking before the Commons Education Committee, Mark Parrett, audit manager at the NAO, said that while there was evidence that bursaries attract graduates into teacher training, there needed to be greater monitoring on whether the large spend was worth it.

The board's Budget, Facilities and Audit Committee was shown a power point presentation that said the cost of capital improvements necessary to modernize every district school would exceed $ 40 billion.

«As the industry leader, K12 often takes the brunt of assaults for online education as our integrity and our effectiveness is sometimes questioned,» said Nathanial Alonzo Roberts, a chairman of the board's audit committee.

That said, in 2005, the audit committee found the side letter, which is the incriminating bit of data, which turned a reinsurance treaty into an accounting ploy that should have been treated as a loan.

Furthermore, in April a Director who was head of the audit committee was not renominated to stand for the board, and she had some unkind words to say about the other Board members.

Environmental Audit Committee chair Mary Creagh said: «Billions of pounds of investment is needed in clean energy, transport, heating and industry to meet our carbon targets.

«The buck stops with the audit committee and frankly most of them are mailing it in,» says Curran.

A lot of times, there is a special committee formed and that may or may not be the same people as on the audit committee,» says West.

«That's where sometimes I think it is in the best interest of the company for the independent board members or the audit committee of the board, in the case of the public company, to identifying a crisis well before it hits,» says Sandrelli.

I think on the front end, in terms of accounting procedures and procurement policies and processing of contracts, there is a lot that can be done and a lot the board of directors and audit committee can do to ensure that procedures are in place,» she said.

«Whether it's the audit committee or a special committee of independent board members, they will retain their own counsel but the in - house legal department also has a role to play,» he says.

When asked whether LIC is planning to ask ICICI board to conduct an audit by an external agency, LIC said: «The matter regarding audit, special audit or forensic audit of the bank is the domain of audit committee, board / regulator of the bank.»

«It's no good having a brilliant brain if no one listens to you,» says Tim Copnell, Chairman of the UK Audit Committee Institute at KPMG.

The board handed the letter over to its audit committee, which then contacted outside counsel and accounting consultants to conduct an independent investigation, Kmart said.

«In many respects, compensation committees are what audit committees were three or four years ago,» says Mark Borges, principal for Mercer Human Resource Consulting in the firm's Washington Resource Group in Washington, D.C. «The spotlight has clearly been on pay practices for the last year - and - a-half and I don't see that changing.»