Word: auditable
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...increasing subsidies. The promise not to increase fares again until after 2006 is far too weak a concession. The MBTA should make a more durable commitment to the community of riders by keeping fares low, steering improvement efforts toward the neighborhoods that truly need them and allowing an independent audit of its accounts. As it stands, the fare hike remains a suggestion of a regressive transportation policy in which those who can afford a car are valued above those who ride the buses and subways...
Parmalat unraveled quickly--and seemingly out of nowhere--after it had trouble meeting a routine bond-interest payment in November, prompting tougher scrutiny of its books by Italian regulators and its own auditors. A follow-up audit produced a stunner: an account held by the company at Bank of America in New York City that supposedly contained about $5 billion turned out not to exist. All the paperwork, including written confirmation from the bank to Parmalat's auditors, had been forged, Bank of America said. "What is shocking here is that it appears the assets were just plain fabricated," says...
...used to cows, killing cows, going out and eating the same cow you kill. I’m not used to this catching and buttering thing. The first thing I will do when elected—when elected—is call for an audit of the dining services. This monopoly...
...improprieties in his business affairs. On Wednesday, Black resigned as CEO of Hollinger International, his Chicago-based public company, after shareholders revolted against him, and regulators in the U.S. and Canada opened probes. Late Friday night Hollinger's Canadian parent company, which Black controls, announced that its four-member audit committee had resigned. Now the $1 billion newspaper empire he spent four decades building seems to be headed for the auction block...
...regressive practice of hiding behind copyrights in an industry whose products are fundamentally flawed by an almost complete absence of meaningful assurance that votes are entered and counted correctly—and whose proprietary software is intended to be protected from effective scrutiny. In these systems, there are no audit trails and no real evidence that something might have gone wrong or been maliciously defrauded. Integrity and democracy must be protected, not questionable practices...