The database contains reporting options that allow supervisors to monitor employees' use of the system to ensure that all queries are appropriate-in addition, the state's internal auditor monitors the staff's use of the database.

It will also explain new rules and how the SFA wishes auditors to monitor compliance with them, as well as existing rules where, in the SFA's experience, problems are most likely to arise.

They held training sessions for 1,500 superintendents, principals and school workers in August, and have requested more money to hire 70 auditors and other staff to monitor school violence reports.

The Homeland Security Department's Office of the Inspector General announced that it would send auditors to monitor the spending of federal dollars.

He said the company planned to search for a prominent law enforcement official to be in charge of its security policies and would also hire independent auditors and aviation security experts to monitor performance.

Additionally, new compliance monitoring procedures, which use outside auditors to monitor grantee compliance with regulations and to perform comprehensive yearly oversight of grantee activities, were formulated.

An independent commission investigating the United Nations oil-for-food program in Iraq said last night that the organization's auditors did not monitor the giant aid effort adequately and that its officials in some cases ignored recommendations that United Nations auditors deemed crucial to the program's success.

For example, auditors should check that a company's internal auditors are effectively monitoring expenses at a particular division.

Internal auditors usually monitor specific projects or segments of a business, Professor Grant said.