Division of Management and Budget: Handles all internal accounting and bookkeeping.

They use their own brokerage, and we can't figure out how they do their internal accounting,"' the investor recalled.

We have internal accounting.

The actions were taken on the recommendation of Miniscribe's independent evaluation committee, which was formed in March to investigate problems in the company's internal accounting.

All or most of the storage was internal accounting for the extra size.

Over the years, management accounting evolved to distinguish the internal accounting of companies from the duties of public accountants.

Mr. Weedman traced the beginning to July 1999, when Procter & Gamble changed its internal accounting.

She said the company did not comment on the internal accounting at its divisions.

If they do not install one, the vendors warn, they might run afoul of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, which calls for better internal accounting.

"The allegations really revolved around something that involved internal accounting," a spokesman for Shearson said.