Word: auditing
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WASHINGTON: Both sides in the war between Ken Starr and the Clinton administration got a heap of ammunition Wednesday. First, a General Accounting Office audit of the prosecutor's Whitewater probe shows Starr spending $30 million in taxpayer dollars over four years. That makes Starr's the most spendthrift of the six independent counsel probes now under way, and means his probe is nearing the $40 million cost of the most expensive independent counsel probe ever conducted, Lawrence Walsh's Iran-Contra investigation...
Undeterred but under pressure, the ladies went to Price Waterhouse for an audit and discovered that their actual return was a sickly 9.1%--far less, according to Lipper Analytical Services, than the Standard & Poor's 500 average annual return of 14.9% or even the average general-stock-fund return of 12.6% during that same period. Updated through 1997, the audit shows that the ladies have picked up some slack, earning an average annual return of 15.3%. But that still lags the comparable S&P 500 figure of 17.2%, though it's better than the average stock-fund gain...
...think that legendary $640 toilet seat back in the ?80s would have taught the Pentagon to be smart shoppers. Not so, according to a Pentagon audit released today, which revealed that in the last two years the military had paid $76 for a 57-cent screw, $714 for a $47 electrical bell, and more...
...committee on Classroom Space is conducting a classroom audit to determine the conditions of Harvard rooms...
...members discussed the possibility of an electronic survey or only conducting surveys for the classrooms that the audit deems problematic...