Zidelis told the City Council Tuesday night, in response to the findings of an outside audit that identified "significant deficiencies" in the city's internal controls for financial reporting.
The outside audit, which was done by Sullivan, Rogers & Co.
Zidelis said many of the problems cited by the outside audit were not longstanding, but rather ones that seemed to have popped up during the previous fiscal year.
Within this environment, individual clients, corporate clients, and insurance companies which hire "insurance defense attorneys" to represent their insured are increasingly seeking outside audits of the legal bills submitted by their attorneys.
Likewise, before a lawyer may release any billing information to an outside audit service the lawyer must have the client's consent."[56] The Utah opinion further noted:
Outside Audit to Waive the Evidentiary Attorney-Client Privilege by Federal Court
The conglomerates have agreed to sharply cut debt loads, and new laws will soon require them to stop spending to prop up losing subsidiaries and submit their books to independent,
outside audits.
Yes, there is talk of a "Citizen Legislature Act"; term limits for members and committee chairs; making use of the information superhighway to inform voters better; instituting
outside audits of operations; reducing the number of committees and committee staff; and instituting new budget disciplines.
They also examined several outside audits from previous periods, focusing on our carrier's claims-adjustment operations and physical loss-control practices.
Two recent outside audits had given these practices clean bills of health, but they were still riddled with problems.
For example, recently the Board has contracted for independent private audits of two Federal Reserve Banks (Kansas City and Cleveland) to provide an independent evaluation of the Reserve Banks' control environments and the Board's examination procedures and to determine the feasibility of substituting, from time to time,
outside audits for financial examinations by the Board's examiners.
In those cases, it's more proof that an
outside audit is the way to go.