Office Audit

• Official: State Land Office Audit a 'Joke'

The general counsel for lame duck New Mexico State Land Commissioner Patrick Lyons called a recent special state audit of the State Land Office "a joke. Either they (state auditors) are incompetent or this is just a political witch hunt, which is a shame," said Robert Stranahan on Monday.

• The Santa Fe New Mexican
• December 21, 2010

• Case Study: Societal Perceptions of the Superior Audit Office of Mexico

In 2000, Mexico passed a constitutional amendment designed to create a new and independent supreme audit institution with technical and managerial autonomy. This legislation resulted in the establishment of the Superior Audit Office of Mexico (SAO), whose goal is to ensure a professional auditing practice that substantially improved upon the performance of its predecessor, the Contaduria Mayor de Hacienda. The SAO decided, at the end of 2007, to carry out its own research to better understand the citizenry's perceptions of its activities. The results showed that while a significant percentage of the full population is not fully familiar with the SAO's tasks and responsibilities, those that do understand them have a positive opinion: more than 75% approved of the results of the SAO's wor...

• International Journal of Government Auditing
• Vol. 36 Nbr. 2, April 2009

• Maryland Office of the Public Defender Audit Finds Flaws

The Maryland Office of the Public Defender must fine-tune its procedures for determining who is eligible for its services and improve its bookkeeping and fee collection practices, according to a legislative audit published Tuesday. The audit, which covered mid-2007 through mid-2010, also faulted the indigent legal defense agency for contracting out network and database management instead of handling it in-house and for paying one employee for 168 days after the person left -- to the tune of $20,560.

• The Daily Record (Baltimore)
• March 01, 2011

• New York State Comptroller's Office Audit: Overcharges at Stony Brook University Medical Center

A New York State Comptroller's office audit of a plan covering 1.1 million government employees estimated the policy paid more than $3.7 million in excessive or erroneous claims to Stony Brook University Medical Center. The Comptroller found Empire BlueCross BlueShield, which administers the New York State Health Insurance Program on behalf of government employees, failed to audit the claims but assumed they were accurate.

• Long Island Business News
• November 22, 2010

• General Accountability Office Audit Highlights Questions Over Arizona's Use of Stimulus Money

A federal audit of Arizona's use of stimulus money raised nagging questions about how the state will track the money's use and impact, but it turned up nothing unusual. The audit by the Government Accountability Office found no glaring deficiencies in the way state officials in Arizona have administered money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, according to Eileen Larence, who is heading the GAO's Arizona audit team.

• Arizona Capitol Times
• April 24, 2009

• Canada Revenue Agency Toronto Centre Tax Services Office Describes Current Audit Issues.

At today's Canada Revenue Agency Toronto Centre Tax Professionals Group Breakfast Seminar (November 14, 2012), the CRA provided an update on a number ...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• Nbr. 2012, January 2012

• License Office Gets 'Good' Audit Rating

The Department of Revenue contract office in Columbia received a "good" rating in a state audit, indicating it is well-managed, despite some issues. Daily overages aren't sent to the state as required, according to the report state Auditor Tom Schweich released yesterday. Instead, the funds are kept to cover shortages on other days at the motor vehicle license office.

• Columbia Daily Tribune
• November 10, 2011

• State Ecd Office to Address Audit at Tninvestco

State officials have one year to fix problems in the TNInvestco program, which was the subject of a sharply critical audit this week. Auditors cited the Department of Economic and Community Development, which administers the state-funded $200 million TNInvestco program, for a range of problems.

• The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current)
• November 15, 2012

• State Controller John Chiang's Office Opens Montebello Audit

MONTEBELLO - State Controller John Chiang's office is initiating a "Bell-type" audit of the city after Montebello failed to comply with state law on financial reporting, according to Chiang's spokesman. Chiang's office last year opened an audit of scandal-ridden Bell following revelations city officials had made themselves rich off taxpayers. Early this year as his office was busy auditing 18 redevelopment agencies statewide, Chiang was flooded with more than 100 requests to audit local agencies, said spokesman Garin Casaleggio.

• San Gabriel Valley Tribune
• April 21, 2011

• National Archives Information Security Oversight Office Releases Audit On Withdrawal of Records From Public Access

WASHINGTON, April 26 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Today Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein and Director of the Information Oversight Office (ISOO) J. William Leonard announced the results of the audit in a report titled, "Withdrawal of Records from Public Access at the National Archives and Records Administration for Classification Purposes. This 28-page audit report focused on the re-review efforts undertaken since 1995 by agencies that believed certain records at the National Archives were improperly made available to the public because they contained classified national security information and had not been declassified under proper authority. The audit found a number of unrelated efforts to identify such records, which resulted in the removal of at least 25,315 publicly availabl...

• U.S. Newswire
• April 26, 2006