But he added that "there is an affirmative obligation to help the auditors discover the facts" and that the training material should have said so.
The auditors also discovered delays and large variations in the department's reporting procedures which are supposed to alert the ministry to problems.
But auditors discovered that the lease began in August 2000, nine months before he got the cancer diagnosis.
On Friday, April 15, however, the auditors discovered that the accounting problem amounted to something far more serious.
The auditors discovered that one driver had been on the payroll for seven weeks during an eight-month suspension.
But she added that it could do so if auditors discovered that there had been an illegal transfer of money within the Maxwell empire.
If the auditors discover serious, but previously unrecognized weaknesses, the management awareness rating will be lowered.
At the time of the collapse, auditors discovered that about $670 million was missing from the Maxwell companies' pension funds.
If a company's auditors discover that it has exaggerated its profits by $25 million, should they immediately force the company to correct its financial reports?
The auditors discovered that the laboratory had not updated its inventory of other high-risk biological agents since 1997.