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...been shopping for classes to audit," said Lori Shoemaker, the dean's assistant. Jewett, she says, is thinking about attending a class either Tuesday and Thursday from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. or Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. "He told us to hold both times on his calendar...
...move toward monitoring has ignited a boom for companies that produce the necessary software. A Utah-based firm, Clyde Digital Systems, makes a program called AUDIT that records every single keystroke by a terminal operator. "It permits total surveillance of all users, all of the time," boasts company President Allan Clyde. Some software is more manipulative, according to a report on computer monitoring issued last April by the 9 to 5 group. One such program berates workers with messages that say, "You're not working as fast as the person next...
Commerce is the driving force. The ads in Italy's Corriere della Sera for just one day included the words personnel, administrator, quality audit, contract manager and know-how. Germans routinely refer to their employer as der Boss, who is expected to be a good Manager. "American English is definitely the model, not English--this is what we see looking through French advertising," says Micheline Faure, organizing secretary of a Paris group called AGULF, which was formed to resist the linguistic invasion. Japanese ads, posters and shopping bags are full of a special kind of American English, often starting with...
...Democratic plan would cut military budget authority next year to $285 billion, $1.8 billion below the current level, and $3 billion of that would be held in abeyance until the Pentagon agrees to an audit of how past years' increases were spent...
...leading trade journal, estimates that there are upwards of 34,000 accounting firms in the U.S., ranging from one-person shops to partnerships employing hundreds of C.P.A.s. But the problems afflicting the industry have adhered most dramatically to the so-called Big Eight of the profession: the firms that audit more than 90% of the financial statements of the FORTUNE 500 largest industrial corporations and rake in nearly 40% of the accounting industry's annual revenues of about $10 billion...