Sentences with phrase «system for audit»

We may also contact any user of this online system for audit and verification purposes in order to comply with laws and regulations governing the credit reporting industry.

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Establish an audit trail system that will allow for complete reconstruction of all financial transactions following a cybersecurity event

In its audit, Ernst & Young found the agency lacked evidence for items that did have some documentation, including records related to $ 100 million in assets for the Defense Logistics Agency's computer systems.

But the enhanced nature of the distributed ledger makes it that much more difficult for those looking to circumvent the system by the embedded audit trail in the code.

The review for downgrade will focus on the outcome of the ongoing external audits of the Spanish banking system, the conditionality and details of the EFSF / ESM loan agreement, and the specific execution strategy developed for the banking system's recapitalisation.

Many private companies begin working toward these standards early on — establishing an independent board, arranging for an independent audit, and upgrading their systems and reporting to required levels.

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

In his view the company also needs to create systems to audit third party data collection and sharing «on an ongoing basis» — and thereby «hold third parties to their promises by engineering controls and contractual lockups» — including «effective remedies when third parties break the rules — including enforceable rights to audit, retrieve, delete and destroy data improperly acquired or used, and liquidated and actual damages for violations».

In 1994, he relocated to Zurich, Switzerland where he became a core member of Philip Morris Companies» internal audit group, focused on integration and establishment of appropriate internal control systems for newly acquired businesses across Europe and the Middle East.

Lyndon Rive is the co-founder and CEO of SolarCity, a provider of clean energy services that designs, finances, and installs photovoltaic systems, performs energy - efficiency audits, and retrofits and builds charging stations for electric vehicles.

Ever since Ron Paul first introduced it in 2009, the «Federal Reserve Transparency» Act, calling for the elimination of the Federal Reserve System's exemption from certain kinds of GAO audits, has been the subject of vigorous debate between proponents of greater government accountability and champions of an independent Federal Reserve.

Vancouver - headquartered China Education Resources, Inc. (CER), an ed - tech company with leading technology of intelligent system and contents to provide online / offline learning, training courses and social media for teachers, students and education professionals, announced its audited financial results for the year ended December 31, 2017.

One reason for the problem: Many churches don't have systems in place to track finances and embezzlement: Less than half of the pastors had audited their church's finances in the last year.

«We get a lot of ideas internally and we bring in outside engineering firms to perform energy audits of our current systems and for new equipment,» Marsella explains.

Grassfed beef brands that are underpinned by the Pasturefed Cattle Assurance System (PCAS), or another third party audited verification system for grassfed beef, are eligible for an additional 25 % incentive (total 75 % MLA contribution) toward eligible activSystem (PCAS), or another third party audited verification system for grassfed beef, are eligible for an additional 25 % incentive (total 75 % MLA contribution) toward eligible activsystem for grassfed beef, are eligible for an additional 25 % incentive (total 75 % MLA contribution) toward eligible activities.

Farms, Group and Chain of Custody Certification Training January 8 - 15, 2018 - Uganda The entire duration of the training is 7 - days and consists of a 4 - day preparatory classroom training and 1 day of on - site audit and 2 days Training for the Chain of Custody Management System.

I don't know Wenger is finished you have no authority to speak for others, to know who is at fault at arsenal we need a taskforce that can investigate what happens behind the scenes a complete audit of the system starting from scouting, coaching, management of the players etc

This includes regular corporate audits, an ombudsman system for employees to report suspicions of WHO Code violations, and external audits of Code compliance.

The USDA on Friday moved one step closer to allowing poultry both raised and slaughtered in China to be exported to the U.S.... In an audit released on Friday, the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service said China's food safety system for slaughtered poultry meets U.S. equivalency standards, a step toward allowing imports of poultry products from animals raised in the communist nation.

Only half the data systems used to measure progress on the government's public service agreement (PSA) targets are fit for purpose, according to the National Audit Office (NAO).

The Safeguarding Board has improved its response to child sexual exploitation and holds agencies to account with better systems for file audits and performance reporting.

The open campaign system would make the audit process easier and less expensive for campaigns, public watchdogs and overworked election officials.

· Allowing counties an option to modify how they fund state mandated pension contributions · Providing counties more audit authority in the special education preschool program · Improving government efficiency and streamlining state and local legislative operations by removing the need for counties to pursue home rule legislative requests every two years with the state legislature in order to extend current local sales tax authority · Reducing administrative and reporting requirements for counties under Article 6 public health programs · Reforming the Workers Compensation system · Renewing Binding Arbitration, which is scheduled to sunset in June 2013, with a new definition of «ability to pay» for municipalities under fiscal distress, making it subject to the property tax cap (does not apply to NYC) where «ability to pay» will be defined as no more than 2 percent growth in the contract.

d. Dealing effectively with corruption in the management of public finances, especially by bringing to a halt the unbridled resort to restricted tendering and sole sourcing e. Undertaking a proper biometric - based payroll audit to eliminate ghost workers as well as implement biometric based payment system for all public sector workers to deal with fraud in government payroll.

«After presenting our findings to NYCHA in January 2015, NYCHA maintained that 4.6 million work order numbers could not be accounted for because of a «skip - sequencing» issue that was corrected as a result of unrelated Maximo system changes in March 2014,» Stringer's audit says.

- Administering the New York State and Local Retirement System for public employees, with more than one million members, retirees and beneficiaries and more than 3,000 employers; - Acting as sole trustee of the $ 129 billion Common Retirement Fund, one of the largest institutional investors in the world; - Maintaining the State's accounting system and administering the State's $ 12.6 billion payroll; - Issuing reports on State finances; - Managing the State's assets and issuing debt; - Reviewing State contracts and payments before they are issued; - Conducting audits of State agencies and public benefit corporations; - Overseeing the fiscal affairs of local governments, including New York City; - Overseeing the Justice Court Fund and the Oil Spill Fund Acting as custodian of more than $ 9 billion in abandoned property and restoring unclaimed funds to their rightful oSystem for public employees, with more than one million members, retirees and beneficiaries and more than 3,000 employers; - Acting as sole trustee of the $ 129 billion Common Retirement Fund, one of the largest institutional investors in the world; - Maintaining the State's accounting system and administering the State's $ 12.6 billion payroll; - Issuing reports on State finances; - Managing the State's assets and issuing debt; - Reviewing State contracts and payments before they are issued; - Conducting audits of State agencies and public benefit corporations; - Overseeing the fiscal affairs of local governments, including New York City; - Overseeing the Justice Court Fund and the Oil Spill Fund Acting as custodian of more than $ 9 billion in abandoned property and restoring unclaimed funds to their rightful osystem and administering the State's $ 12.6 billion payroll; - Issuing reports on State finances; - Managing the State's assets and issuing debt; - Reviewing State contracts and payments before they are issued; - Conducting audits of State agencies and public benefit corporations; - Overseeing the fiscal affairs of local governments, including New York City; - Overseeing the Justice Court Fund and the Oil Spill Fund Acting as custodian of more than $ 9 billion in abandoned property and restoring unclaimed funds to their rightful owners;

The letter comes after the DFS released an audit that was critical of Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office for not updating its technology and backing up computer systems which it contended could put the fund at risk.

The audit was criticized by DiNapoli's office in turn for ignoring key factors and that it was in the process of updating its computer system.

«Audits and information gathering are all very well, but they are no substitute for the urgent action which is needed to tackle the deep injustices rife in the system.»

The Department of Audit and Control performs the duties specified for the County Comptroller in the Oneida County Charter (Article IV), i.e. records all transactions for the County, maintains a fixed asset system, audits and processes payroll and vendor disbursements, and manages all note and bond sales.

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli released an audit in February showing that the state had failed at its oversight role of the city's shelters and so bore a portion of the blame for poor conditions in the system.

A report by the Connecticut Citizen Election Audit finds the state's system for auditing elections still has flaws.

A sampling of problems the audit pinpointed include: a request to replace an «unreliable» fire alarm panel in a processed plutonium facility had not been fulfilled; a kitchen hood fire suppression system, required to be tested semiannually, had not been tested in four years; and facility operators did not always have money and time earmarked for fixing outstanding issues.

This matching system, said Silber, allows hospital to audit their costs and resource use in a more refined way than simply reporting if a hospital is more or less expensive in an aggregate fashion for a given diagnosis.

Through a medical audit and outcome monitoring, the system provides important mechanisms for peer review and quality assurance data to improve the quality of patient care.

HNC, or third party companies acting on our behalf, may collect IP addresses for the purposes of systems administration and to audit the use of our websites.

Over the past five years of documenting what's in my wardrobe I've simplified a solid system for closet clean outs, spent a year away from retail therapy (and audited...

«There must be early warning systems in place to alert the Department for Education to emerging issues requiring action and intervention,» according to Amyas Morse, head of the National Audit Office.

North Carolina education officials last week ordered a major audit of the state's testing and accountability program to determine the soundness of the system after problems emerged over interim scoring measures for the state's end - of - grade math exam.

You should therefore review the systems you have for recording consent to ensure you have an effective audit trail.

«Manual systems paper - based or electronic spreadsheets allow for many areas of human error and are without a complete audit trail.»

Currently, the only audits of the system's performance are conducted by those running the system or by organizations that depend on them for future business, including colleges of education and testing firms.

For example, ESSA requires states to include a broader set of factors in school accountability systems rather than just test scores; provides funding for states and districts to audit and streamline their testing regimes; and allows states to cap the amount of instructional time devoted to testiFor example, ESSA requires states to include a broader set of factors in school accountability systems rather than just test scores; provides funding for states and districts to audit and streamline their testing regimes; and allows states to cap the amount of instructional time devoted to testifor states and districts to audit and streamline their testing regimes; and allows states to cap the amount of instructional time devoted to testing.

Eliminating redundant or unnecessary tests and improving assessment programs is supported in ESSA through a grant program that provides for audits of testing systems at both the state and local levels.

ESSA provides funding for states to audit and streamline assessment systems, eliminate redundant and inefficient assessments and improve them.

These examples include assessment audits, implementing systems to collect, manage, and analyze assessment data, supporting assessment literacy, increasing transparency and timeliness, increasing communications about the purpose of statewide assessments, making assessment results more usable and understandable for educators and parents, improving the quality of assessments, and increasing the validity and reliability of statewide assessments.

Labour MP Diana Johnson, who previously promised to flag the financial mismanagement of free schools to the National Audit Office, said it was «irresponsible» for the government to «waste money on a chaotic free school funding system that is simply not fit for purpose».

By explicitly incorporating language around assessment audits, training for teachers and school leaders that develops sound assessment practices, hiring of personnel with assessment certifications, and parental engagement through assessment literacy into state ESSA applications, states can enhance student learning by leveraging funds to develop assessment policies and systems that reflect balanced and quality practices.

The National Audit Office said the DfE should set out a «clearer vision» for the school system as a whole, to clarify how academies, maintained schools and local authorities should work together across the country.

This includes developing a peer review, audit, or moderation system that provides for a feedback loop, checks on quality, and includes directions for staff development.