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audit

[aw-dit] / ˈɔ dɪt /




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This month, it sent staff to audit Chinese manufacturers of actuator components and sensors, 21st Century Business Herald reported.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

It made a series of recommendations to address those problems, including the appointment of an independent body to oversee costs and the construction schedule, and the ordering of an audit of the project.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

Many of the file transfers possibly included confidential material about the work of the Federal Open Market Committee, the group of Fed officials who vote on interest rates, according to the audit report.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Out of more than 1,000 empty units he helped audit nationally, on average more than half didn't have a letting agent actively marketing the property.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

“What about the audit and the frozen assets?”

From "Lawn Boy Returns" by Gary Paulsen

Tomé’s story echoed those I’ve heard from other board members, who spend hours poring over financial audits but little time auditing people.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

"These audits must identify broken streetlights, overgrown public spaces, abandoned buildings, unsafe transport routes and facilities, poorly secured parks, and other conditions that place women at risk."

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

Sarbox requires third-party audits of public company internal controls, and it created the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board to regulate public accounting firms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Newsom signed bills last week aimed at creating a pathway for outside audits of the top AI companies, many of which are based in California, and a registry for AI auditors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

The Fowls had held on to Fowl Manor over the years, surviving war, civil unrest, and several tax audits.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

Under the act, new or higher special taxes enacted after Jan. 1, 2026 would be audited every four years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

They audited the street, tracking down absent landlords, and logging what was empty and why.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

Abbott has tried to ameliorate these concerns by requiring all new data centers to be audited by the state, a step that policy experts and Democrats have criticized as insufficient.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026

Thirty-nine percent said they would continue to publish earnings press releases quarterly, but would submit regulatory filings twice a year—a reviewed semiannual report and an audited annual one.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

Wait until Mom and Dad got home and I had to break it to them that my finances were being audited.

From "Lawn Boy Returns" by Gary Paulsen

Tomé’s story echoed those I’ve heard from other board members, who spend hours poring over financial audits but little time auditing people.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

The controller is the state’s fiscal watchdog, responsible for auditing government agencies, administering payroll for state employees and reuniting abandoned assets with their owners.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Osman was reported to have been working for a local auditing firm.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

The table below lists stocks of companies based outside the U.S. that currently are recommended by any of the investment newsletters monitored by my performance auditing firm.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026

Unnerved, Oppenheimer confided that every other registered student had already done the same—the hall was filled with students auditing the course for no credit, struggling to understand the subject matter without risking a grade.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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