Sentences with phrase «audit power of»

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A provider of residential solar power products and services, SolarCity designs and installs solar energy systems and performs energy efficiency audits.

Mr. Kwauk is currently a senior consultant of Motorola Solutions (China) Co., Ltd. and serves as an independent non-executive director of Thunder Power Co. Ltd., a Taiwan company with its shares traded on Taiwan's Gre Tai Securities Market; Sinosoft Technology Group Limited, a company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, of which Mr. Kwauk is also the chairman of its audit committee; and several private companies.

It appears that the PCs are both understating the condition of disrepair of hospitals and in some cases, using their power to move projects up the priority list in order to benefit the political interests of PC caucus members at the expense of the health of those living in more needy communities» said Notley In a written response to a request from NDP Leader Rachel Notley, the Auditor General has committed to an audit of the government's capital planning process.

After an audit, the Power of 620 sports services behind every selection, the MasterLockLine has isolated that being more diligent in not re-releasing service picks when other highly ranked handicappers have conflicting plays will greatly increase winning percentage.

Trade unions will have to submit to an annual audit of their membership and accept new limits on their spending power in election campaigns.

Page 254 allows police to search for digital information about you without having to ask anyone except for an authorised fellow policeman: no judges, no ministers, no oversight whatsoever, except for a sample of authorisations somewhere down the line sent to the investigatory powers commissioner for an audit.

«The way we really police the procurement process is not necessarily giving the comptroller more power, because right now the comptroller of the state of New York has post audit ability,» Klein said.

David Beetham, News International and corporate power in Britain's democracy: just the tip of the «unelected oligarchies» iceberg, Democratic Audit Blog, 26 July 2011.

The latest figures come after the National Audit Office (NAO) revealed in September that the number of people sleeping rough had soared by 134 per cent since the Conservative Party took power, prompting accusations from the spending watchdog that ministers have failed to tackle the problem.

The mayor downplayed Stringer's proposed new role by saying the comptroller's office already has the power to audit how the city spends taxpayer money and that he welcomed the governor's promise of additional resources to improve the shelters.

Related: Why has the Supreme Court of the United States not used its power of judicial review to audit constitutionally - questionable laws like the Patriot Act?

It will give the Comptroller new powers to audit providers of pre-kindergarten for special needs children, an industry that has seen its share of scandal.

His bill would restore audit powers that Cuomo took away from his office in 2011 and restrict the ability of public authorities to sign contracts through not - for - profits, like those used by former SUNY Polytechnic Institute Alain Kaloyeros before his arrest in the alleged bid - rigging scheme.

In 2007, the General Assembly passed a law solidifying the board's powers to oversee and audit state procurement efforts as part of a clean - contracting law.

-LSB-...] Democratic Audit UK has a good discussion of the issue of fixed terms for the UK House of Commons, which were legislated by the current coalition government that took power following the 2010 election.

Later on, a sample will be sent to the newly - created investigatory powers commissioner for a kind of audit.

«He has also been a leading voice for banning standardized tests for our youngest students, supported a three - year moratorium against the use of Common Core testing for student promotion and placement, and has backed giving the city and state Comptrollers the power to audit charters, particularly charter practices that limit the enrollment and retention of high - needs students.»

Audits releases this summer noted problems in a couple of programs, including the Recharge New York Program, which is supposed to provide power at discounted rates to certain businesses and nonprofits.

The Senate has ordered the immediate reinstatement of wrongfully sacked General Manager Audit and Compliance of the Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC) Mrs. Maryam Danna Mohammed.

The Senate has ordered the immediate reinstatement of wrongfully sacked General Manager Audit and Compliance of the Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC), Mrs. Maryam Danna...

She said she planned to strengthen the legal powers of the National Audit Office to allow it to demand access to all BBC documents whenever it wanted.»

Starbucks Seattle, WA Restaurants 211 million green kWh, 20 % of total power used A 2006 audit showed that a whopping 81 percent of the coffee giant's greenhouse emissions came from the conventional energy it used to power its North American stores; each square foot consumed an average of 6.57 kWh of electricity a month.

P. Balaram, a molecular biophysicist and director of the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, and 60 others last week wrote an open letter to the public, stating: «We strongly believe that India must radically review its nuclear power policy for appropriateness, safety, costs, and public acceptance, and undertake an independent, transparent safety audit of all its nuclear facilities, which involves non-Department of Atomic Energy experts and civil society organisations.

Subsequent to making the audit of the best power towers, I might want to demonstrate to you what sorts of activities you can perform with this wellness hardware.

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.

All of the talk to audit / limit / shrink / end the Fed comes from abuse of those powers, which should be done by the Treasury and Congress, so that voters can hold them accountable.

While there seems to be hope on the horizon for the future of many Tulsa animals, Jenkins and all those at the Animal Shelter are already doing everything within their power to reduce euthanasia rates and the production of homeless pets, based on the results of a 2007 audit under Mayor Kathy Taylor's administration.

... Yesterday, after the full report was released, the sceptical climate change blog Climate Audit reported that the 77 per cent figure had been derived from a joint study by Sven Teske, a climate change expert employed by Greenpeace, which opposes the use of nuclear power to cut carbon emissions.

So this is what Green Audit and other anti-nuclear campaign groups thrive on: distrust of both the nuclear industry and official health protection and regulatory agencies, allowing them to invoke shadowy conspiracies by men in white lab coats who presumably enjoy foisting dangerous radioactive materials on an unwilling public, all no doubt controlled by a sinister mastermind bearing a striking resemblance to Mr Burns off the Simpsons, the evil boss of Springfield Nuclear Power Plant.

I interpret the charter of Climate Audit, as Steve McIntyre has described CA's role and purpose, as fitting the «Internal Audit» model for an auditing organization, i.e. its auditing powers go well beyond the more strictly defined limits of the QA Auditing model.

The Internal Audit function has significantly broader powers than does the QA Audit function, in that any facet of the organization and its operations can be examined for deficiencies and for potential improvements, including deficiencies in the corporation's written processes and written procedures which the QA Auditors have no authority themselves to go beyond in performing their audits, or to criticize directly.

To this day, compliance audits are not filed, resident reports of noise pollution and health impacts (noted by MOECC staff in 59/100 master files) are not acted on, and instead of listening to and acting on citizen concerns as promised by Premier McGuinty, the MOECC's «client» is the wind power industry....

Suppose that all of the renewable - supplied power used in The Experiment is produced in California, and that the CPMA guarantees a rate of return of 15 % on a power supplier's investment in their wind and solar power generating facilities, based upon an annual audit of each power producer's accounting books.

Options for reform include mandatory monitoring and publication of monitoring information, the power to order audits, routine program evaluations and enhanced enforcement techniques.

Its plans cover telephone consultations, letters and phone calls on a member's behalf, defense in civil lawsuits (with caps on time), a will, a power of attorney, a living will, IRS audits, and assistance with motor vehicle moving violations and related criminal charges.

TORONTO, April 16, 2018 — In IGGillis Holdings Inc. v Minister of National Revenue, the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) forced the courts to examine both the extent of the CRA's tax audit power and the limits of solicitor - client privilege.

The hiring of compliance officers could provide the Branch with the power to conduct audits of workplaces to ensure that employers are complying with the legislation, a move which — particularly if combined with increased penalties for non-compliance — would provide employers with a powerful incentive to ensure that they are, in all respects and at all times, compliant with the ESA.

The Commissioner is an advocate for the privacy rights of Canadians and her powers include: Investigating complaints, conducting audits and pursuing court action under two federal laws - Privacy Act and Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA); Publicly reporting on the personal information - handling practices of public and private sector organizations; Supporting, undertaking and publishing research into privacy issues; and Promoting public awareness and understanding of privacy issues.

If getting audited is your idea of a good time, well, more power to you.

CosmoLex Accounting Partners (CAP) leverage the power of CosmoLex's built - in accounting software to help small law firms keep clean, audit - ready books.

(4) A regulation made under subsection (2) may provide that a district school board's audit committee has all the powers of an auditor under section 253.

Furthermore, the Minister's power to order an audit combined with the extended limitations period and the elimination of the due diligence defence increase potential liability for and costs that need to be incurred by employers.

It is theoretically normative (i.e. about what ought to be done in a modern workplace), but is a concept that has proven to be very amendable to employers» power to control expectations through terms of contract and policies that put employees on notice of monitoring, audit and investigation powers.

The effect of the LPUL will be to prevent the relevant regulatory authorities using the compliance audit power imaginatively to «identify the roots of potential problems in advance» — by requiring law firms to participate in on - line ethics checks, for example, and by inventing and deploying other like tools.

At the end of the consultation process, the Taskforce issued an «Interim Report on Key Issues and Funding,» in which it acknowledged that «concerns have been expressed that the Commissioner's power to conduct compliance audits is unnecessarily broad,» notably because the Commissioner could conduct an audit simply because it considered it necessary to do so.

The decisions clarified that legal professionals can not be compelled to disclose their clients» identities, communications or any other privileged information with respect to tax audit and / or collection powers of the Canadian Revenue Agency («CRA»).

The Court of Appeal applied the principle from R. v. Jarvis, 2002 SCC 73 to conclude that the CRA could not use its audit powers to prepare a criminal investigation, and that doing so was a violation of an accused person's right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure pursuant to Section 8 of the Charter.

The Minister argued that the only possible interpretation of section 231.1 of the Act is that the Minister can conduct oral interviews of taxpayers and that the section provides for broad audit powers.

On June 3, 2016, the Supreme Court of Canada, in two related decisions, strengthened the legal protection of solicitor - client privilege in relation to Canada Revenue Agency's (CRA) audit and tax collection powers when it decided the federal Income Tax Act's «requirement» scheme is unconstitutional insofar as it applies to lawyers and notaries, and the lawyers» accounting records exception in the Act's definition of «solicitor - client privilege» is completely unconstitutional.

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